I fully agree with you, sj4iy. I think it nicely complements and comments the series. 

kete wrote:

sj4iy wrote:

...he's an army Doctor.  Not an author.  I would find it unbelievable to see him writing prose like the original John Watson...especially on a blog.

In any case, it's just a bit of fun...really nothing to get upset about, I think.

The original JW was an army doctor and not an author - until he started chronicling SH's adventures. So I would expect better prose from him even in this incarnation. But it's nothing I get upset about, I just wish they would take more care with the blog, because it *could* be better than it is now.

Just because the first Watson was a world class writer doesn't mean that this one has to be, too.  The difference being that the original Watson was being used as a narrator for Doyle's stories, whereas this Watson is being used as the audience's eyes into the world of Sherlock Holmes...but visually, not textually.  The blogs aren't used as the audience's 'eyes' this time around, therefore, it would make more sense that an army Doctor who can barely uses a computer (he types with two fingers) would not have much experience in writing.  And blogs are different- they are more casual.

Empty hearse post at johns blog....

Ok I know that the fandom seem to have worked out who 'theimprobableone' is but I still can't figure it out?! Is it supposed to be Anderson? Surely not, 'theimprobableone' showed up long before Anderson changed his tune.

Anyone know who it's supposed to be?!

And another one, this time by Sherlock himself:

http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/11august

To me this once again shows that one should not rely on this blog. It is a nice addition but there are discrepancies between what we get in the series and here. Just take Sherlock's statement that the Mayfly man slept with the women while they stress in the episode how romantic he was and nothing happened between them. 
And frankly the way Sherlock writes here does not really fit with what I have seen in TSoS.

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The way I saw it was the Mayfly man picked up women for sex using the identities of the recently dead. Which John deduced. During the game of Guess Who Sherlock worked out that Mayfly utilised the same methods to target five particular women for other reasons.
I did like Sherlocks reference to Eastenders. Only Sherlock would refer to it as 'the Eastenders'.

Are you guys really taking John's Blog all that seriously?  It's a funny little comic addition - most of the time a very tongue-in-cheek inflation of the characters - that always gives me a good laugh, nothing more.

Yeah you can't. Sherlock's description of the murder was incorrect as well. I dunno what Joe's doing or why no-one is 'fact'-checking it but it's just a fun addition, obviously. I don't know why they both dating the posts at all though if they're going to be so wildly inaccurate.

sj4iy wrote:

KeepersPrice wrote:

Are you guys really taking John's Blog all that seriously? It's a funny little comic addition - most of the time a very tongue-in-cheek inflation of the characters - that always gives me a good laugh, nothing more.

Same.  It's just for fun, nothing important.

I am still curious to know who is running the blog, though.

Wholocked wrote:

Joe Lidster at the BBC writes the blog. He has a twitter account.

Bril, thank you