yes, sorry, as my head exploded I think everything got muddled up... The book she was reading was by Mummy Holmes, but the title (Dynamics of combustion) was similar to the one written by Moriarty - this makes much more sense.

The correlation here is that both mummy holmes and Moriarty are scientists...
 

I hope he isn't but... oh God.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Maybe Mummy Holmes and Moriarty's father dated each other at one time and that Jim Moriarty is actually Sherlock and Mycroft's half brother.

 
Now that would be amazing!  I think you're on to something, boss!

dartmoordoggers wrote:

This was floating around the twittersphere between S1  and 2. Basically Mycroft upset mummy by exposing an affair. The result of that affair, Moriarty being the half brother of Sherlock.  'You are me'.

I think that is consistent with previous pastiche-it is the Seven Percent Solution? I am sure I remember Moftiss saying that they were seeing that as their backstory. An affair between the parents exposed by Sherlock. BUT BUT BUT I really wonder if they have changed their minds. I actually love the idea of Sherlock as being a rather overindulged, very bright kid from a family that is entirely normal in a British eccentric way.

To me, it no longer FEELS right that this should be the backstory. The Holmes parents felt like kind, loving parents, who are possibly the only people who can actually handle these boys they have produced. 

Also, - genuis mother, genuis kids, ordinary father, affair. Isn't that actually Frasier?

I really hope Moriaty is not the half brother. Its too X files (Krycek as Mulder's brother via Cigarette Smoking Man) for me. Yes it all adds up beautifully. It explains both moriaty's genius and his obsession with the Holmes brother. But it is still a serious shark jump. Just once, maybe a serious antagonist could NOT be biologically related to the protagonist.

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Or maybe Mycroft just invented the brother in order to look tough. 

lil wrote:

Wasn't there a third brother Sherringford.....somewhere .
Was Sherlock ref. To him in his best man speach... family idiot with a career in the church?

Its Baring-Gould , the Sherlockian's kind of first fanboy, who invented this whole headcanon universe back around the 1950s. One of this headcanons was the idea that if Holmes' ancestors were county squires then someone had to have inherited the land and title, since it was neither Mycroft nor Sherlock there had to be an older brother. 

Incidentally. I am assuming the "William" of "William Sherlock Scott Holmes" is after William S Baring Gould (no idea what the S stands for btw)

(or it could be WIlliam Gillette-who I THINK was the first adaptor of Sherlock Holmes and to whom ACD gave the carte blanche to change anything and everything about the canon, Sherlock, what have you?)
 

Last edited by beekeeper (January 13, 2014 5:37 pm)

Randomly noticed something else too. Mrs Hudson and Sherlock's mother both have the same initials - MLH (in both cases, their married names). I could even go a step further with that. Mrs H's maiden name is Sissons. It is reasonably common to give kids, esp in wealthy families, their mother's maiden name as a third middle name so Scott, in Sherlock, could well be her maiden name. Making both their initials originally MLS. I shall ponder on any significance to this. 

(well, its going to be a LONG time til series 4....)

Last edited by beekeeper (January 13, 2014 6:32 pm)

Ozma wrote:

lil wrote:

Incidentally. I am assuming the "William" of "William Sherlock Scott Holmes" is after William S Baring Gould (no idea what the S stands for btw)

(or it could be WIlliam Gillette-who I THINK was the first adaptor of Sherlock Holmes and to whom ACD gave the carte blanche to change anything and everything about the canon, Sherlock, what have you?)
 

I think they said something like that yesterday at the Q&A...but then again I could have easily dreamt it. Too much data in my head at the moment

cool . 

turns out the S in baring gould is stuart, so I am going with the theory that its his mother's maiden name. Its nice for her and Mrs H to have matching initials.

Last edited by beekeeper (January 13, 2014 6:36 pm)

In any case, I guess they'll tell us more about this third brother in the next series now they've mentioned him.