Or is Anderson nuts?

-m0r

*can't stop giggling over the SherlockxMoriarty theory* XD

Couldn't be the truth because it shows one of the 'accomplices' (the girl on the corner) who was the 'fan' who came up with the Shirlock/Moriati love trist theory.

Nope! just recognised her. pretty distinctive really....big eyes!

Don't have sreen cap apability, perhaps someone might just watch it through again (as if!) and check.

Last edited by shylock (January 1, 2014 10:55 pm)

Other people on Twitter are thinking the same thing...

Radio Times - We still don't know how he did it
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-01-01/sherlock-is-back--and-we-still-dont-know-how-he-survived-the-fall

Most interesting points relating to the Anderson theory are about halfway down and I've copied and pasted them here:

Viewers were made to wait until the very end of The Empty Hearse for the third solution, courtesy of Sherlock himself. From the inflatable crashmat hidden by a low building, to the cyclist who deliberately knocked John to the ground, buying time for Molly and members of Sherlock's "homeless network" to bloody up his “dead” body, this was indeed the version many fans had been expecting. The squash ball under the arm to mask Sherlock's pulse – a technique used on stage by Gatiss's friend Derren Brown – drew cheers at the preview screening.

But as Sherlock's explanation drew to an end, everything we'd just been told was called into question. Journalist and Empty Hearse founder Anderson pronounced Sherlock's version "a bit disappointing" – clearly a reaction Gatiss and Moffat were half-expecting/guarding against when they wrote the episode – before starting to pick holes in it. As an increasingly hysterical Anderson began to rip his plans from the wall an amused Sherlock didn't try to convince him otherwise. And when John later asked him for the explanation he remained enigmatic, teasing "You know my methods".

So was that last solution the correct one?

"That’s presuming, of course, that Sherlock Holmes would bother to tell Anderson the truth,” said Moffat. “We might still not know."

"[But] it’s a very plausible version of how he did it,” Gatiss was quick to add.

So what is going on? Are Gatiss and Moffat hedging their bets: if we like Sherlock’s solution, great, if we make fun of it or poke holes, well who says it was the right one anyway?

Or maybe the ambiguity is just part and parcel of the ultimately unknowable enigma that is Sherlock?

“I certainly am wondering at the end ‘Gosh, I wonder if I even know’,” said Benedict Cumberbatch.

And if Sherlock Holmes himself can’t work it out, what hope is there for the rest of us?


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*shakes fist* MOFFAAAAAAT!

Nope I think that was Anderson's theory and he's gone potty. I think Moftiss realised that any solution was going to disappoint so they just left it open. Which in itself is disappointing I guess, but clever!

Wholocked wrote:

Nope I think that was Anderson's theory and he's gone potty. I think Moftiss realised that any solution was going to disappoint so they just left it open. Which in itself is disappointing I guess, but clever!

I think the same, not really explaining it was brilliant and disappointing at the same time.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

But but but...they can't leave it like that. They have to actually tell us at some point. It would be a really big cop out and a cheat if they didn't.

True, but I don't think they ever will .

They said we'd have an "elegant" solution. They said if Sherlock Holmes was to fake his death it would have to be the best fake death going. They said although people had come close, no one had guessed how he did it yet.

Well, the explanation that Sherlock gave Anderson is one of the most popular and most obvious theories amongst fans. So, why would it be that?