I liked it how they integrated it into the episode after all the fuss about it during filming. This will really well done. 

Most of the episode felt like a love story to the theorists but kept enough composure to let them know there were still alone.

Nicely done in my opinion.

-m0r

Just look him up. He is a magician. People see him as a kind of menalist or genius in manipulation.
Expert in reading people, their behaviour...
Works with NLP.

Because he´s a friend of Mark Gatiss? No, honestly, because of "it´s a magic trick". Literally taken from the authors. Fits perfectly, I think. It´s a joke, of course.

But even if we don´t know Derren Brown: Somebody is shown who is hypnotizing John. To make him believe that his friend has jumped/is dead. That joke is also understandable without any insider knowledge and has to do with the note (magic trick). So it fits.

Last edited by anjaH_alias (January 2, 2014 11:33 am)

They probably could have also taken Copperfield instead.

Derren Brown is a mentalist and trickster as well as a magician. He became a household name in the UK because, on his tv show, he tricked people into doing things (alledgedly) just by talking to them. So he's associated with confidence tricks and a certain spine-tingling fear of his seemingly god-like power over people. Unlike other mentalists though he's very clear that everything he does is a trick and it can be scientifically explained. In fact, he goes out of his way to discredit charlatans who prey on people by pretending they have supernatural powers.

He has a charismatic personality, appears to be very intelligent, is a bit kooky, is able to manipulate people, and has quite a wicked sense of humour. Sounds like anyone we know..? 

Just youtube 'derren brown martin freeman' and see the real thing.

Moriarty shaking hands with Mycroft?

I missed that, too. And I don´t think a scene like that will come in ep. 2 or 3.

Last edited by anjaH_alias (January 2, 2014 4:36 pm)