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MollyHfan · July 25, 2012 8:07 am

Soo many favourite moments to choose from, but I adore three of them especially:

1. Sherlock removing the jacket with the bomb from John's jacket - all the rushed fear in his eyes asking whether he's alright;

2. John and Sherlock laughing in A Study In Pink about the "most ridiculous thing he's ever done" - seems to me to be the start of their instant and deep understanding;

3. "If I wasn't everything that you think I am, everything that I think I am, would you still want to help me?"
I adore all Molly/Sherlock-moments in TRF, but this is for me one of the most emotional scenes of the series so far.
You can see tears in Molly's eyes and Sherlock's voice all deep and slightly hoarse from the emotions he's trying to suppress - masterly written and acted.

Davina · July 25, 2012 10:00 am

Weird that No. 3 was cut from the PBS screening. I know they had to cut 8 minutes but such a shame that scene went.

Sherlockita · July 25, 2012 10:08 am

I think that scene was quite important to the show.. how could they do without it i wonder? So, in the US version Molly is not shown at all after the scene where she tells Sherlock that he looks sad etc.. ??

Davina wrote:
Weird that No. 3 was cut from the PBS screening. I know they had to cut 8 minutes but such a shame that scene went.

Sherlockita · July 25, 2012 10:14 am

One of my other favorite moments is from ASIP when Sherlock and John enter the Baker Street hall after that 'chase' and Sherlock tells John that see who's at the door.. (don't remember the exact dialogue) and then he "smiles" so beautifully at John when he finds out that it was Sherlock's restaurant friend who had come to return his stick...This part of the episode tells a great deal about the fact that Sherlock "does care" for people, doesn't show it though..! even though it had not been even 24 hours that he had known John.. He looked genuinely happy that John was now completely over his psychosomatic limp.. I think that was a very human form of Sherlock....and Benedict gave a killer smile there

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Davina · July 25, 2012 10:43 am

monitaa wrote:
I think that scene was quite important to the show.. how could they do without it i wonder? So, in the US version Molly is not shown at all after the scene where she tells Sherlock that he looks sad etc.. ??
Davina wrote:
Weird that No. 3 was cut from the PBS screening. I know they had to cut 8 minutes but such a shame that scene went.

Molly is shown after the 'you look sad' scene. Just the line you quoted about not being everything she thought he was, he thought he was is cut. The rest of them e.g. needing her were left in.

MollyHfan · July 25, 2012 2:15 pm

Davina wrote:
Weird that No. 3 was cut from the PBS screening. I know they had to cut 8 minutes but such a shame that scene went.

Oh, I didn't know that!
What a shame indeed, I thought it was very important for the whole episode. But then again, if they had to cut 8 minutes, they probably just had to stick to the scenes and lines that had more importance to the development of the plot itself.

Another remarkable scene just came to my mind: In The Great Game, as John and Sherlock are walking towards the Vauxhall Arches in order to search for the Golem, there's this little dialogue as Sherlock's looking up at the stars:

"Beautiful, isn't it?"
"I thought you didn't care about such things."
"Doesn't mean I can't appreciate them."

Of course, I could be seen as a mere allusion of Sherlock's to the astronomy subject they were dealing with, but one could also think of a more personal or emotional meaning there.

As a sign, suggesting something like: Sherlock might be a person refusing such rather romantic things, yet he's not too blind to notice them and appreciate them for what they are like.

veecee · July 25, 2012 5:37 pm

MollyHfan wrote:
Soo many favourite moments to choose from, but I adore three of them especially:

1. Sherlock removing the jacket with the bomb from John's jacket - all the rushed fear in his eyes asking whether he's alright;

2. John and Sherlock laughing in A Study In Pink about the "most ridiculous thing he's ever done" - seems to me to be the start of their instant and deep understanding;

3. "If I wasn't everything that you think I am, everything that I think I am, would you still want to help me?"
I adore all Molly/Sherlock-moments in TRF, but this is for me one of the most emotional scenes of the series so far.
You can see tears in Molly's eyes and Sherlock's voice all deep and slightly hoarse from the emotions he's trying to suppress - masterly written and acted.

I like these, too, especially #2. Of course, we're all dying during #3, aren't we? I was surprised, though. I saw the PBS version first, and it just made sense for him to ask for help from Molly, and I loved it. When I saw the full version later, I wondered how much he was just playing Molly, as he had done in the past. Either way, I like it.

Sherlock Holmes · July 26, 2012 4:45 pm

The moment when John silently agrees for Sherlock to shoot the bomb if necessary.

The moment Sherlock realises it was John who shot the cabbie.

veecee · July 26, 2012 8:13 pm

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
The moment when John silently agrees for Sherlock to shoot the bomb if necessary.

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Oh, yeah. You just admire them both so much just then.

Although, I have had this discussion with a sibling: Frequently in movies people give each other silent signals or one says, "I just..." and the other cuts in and says, "I know." I think that in real life I would probably get the wrong signal, or think I knew but be wrong. So Sherlock aims at the jacket, and I blurt out, "No, that's now what I meant!"

KeepersPrice · July 26, 2012 8:29 pm

There's one moment I keep thinking about. It's actually a movement that Ben makes as bored and petulent Sherlock that just amazes me concerning his remarkable and subtle skill as an actor. He is so much in character it's uncanny. It's in tGG when John leaves after their 'domestic' and Mrs. Hudson enters with her "hoo, hoo". Ben sort of stretches his body out on the couch in a way that I almost can't describe in words; but it perfectly captures his irritation, peevishness, ill-temper and annoyance all in one brief subtle movement. Genius acting as far as I'm concerned.

tobeornot221b · July 26, 2012 9:04 pm

The Great Game.
There's one example for the fantastic cooperation between Sherlock and John when there is not a second to loose:
(Difficult to push the button at the exact right moment because it lasts for only a fraction of a second.)

Sherlock presses the pink phone to John's chest, runs away, checks his own phone, comes back...

...and exactly five seconds later he grabs the phone from John and shouts the saving words "The Van Buren supernova" into it.

SusiGo · July 26, 2012 9:17 pm

Sorry, but I can't follow your explanations right now, the unbuttoned shirt's too distracting .

tobeornot221b · July 26, 2012 9:19 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Sorry, but I can't follow your explanations right now, the unbuttoned shirt's too distracting .

Even though it isn't the purple one, Susi?

Mattlocked · July 26, 2012 9:20 pm

Does this actress look into the camera?? Tsss....

tobeornot221b · July 26, 2012 9:21 pm

Mattlocked wrote:
Does this actress look into the camera?? Tsss....

No, she looks at the painting which is in fact the camera.

SusiGo · July 26, 2012 9:21 pm

Yes. And look at his face and the hair … purple isn't a must. Fitted shirt's okay, always .

Mattlocked · July 26, 2012 9:24 pm

tobeornot221b wrote:
Mattlocked wrote:
Does this actress look into the camera?? Tsss....
No, she looks at the painting which is in fact the camera.

LOL Ooops, must have missed that.
Susi and the shirt are confusing me!!!!

KeepersPrice · July 26, 2012 10:27 pm

Mattlock's picture above with Irene and Sherlock is one of my favorite moments also. She's trying - but he's not buying. It appears he's downright annoyed with her encroachment in his space and clearly not in the least bit smitten with Ms. Adler. That's how I see it anyway. And how dare she kiss him in the same spot John punched him. That's John's territory!

MollyHfan · July 26, 2012 10:39 pm

I think the whole scene with the painting was superbly done, all the tension and then Sherlock's laugh as he figures out the mistake...another proof of how brilliant the series is.

Having rewatched The Reichenbach Fall yesterday (in the English version, my Goodness, how emotional!), I have two more of these little favourite moments to add:

1. John and Sherlock standing right behind their door before the court scene, knowing exactly what would be awaiting them the moment they stepped outside, drawing in a deep breath and then "Ready?".
To me that shows how much tension there is in this episode and the huge contrast between the safety and calm in 221B and the trouble outside of it;

2. The look on Sherlock' face as he realizes that John is up on the gallery during the entire court scene and that slightly apologizing smile of his in order to make up for not having listened to him earlier in the car and also the moment afterwards when John picks him up at the jail - "You were there, from start to finish."
What a foreshadowing quote regarding the end of the episode!

Davina · July 27, 2012 7:35 am

In Mattlocked's photo I see Sherlock's facial expression as being one of puzzlement- what is she doing? Mixed with being a bit put out because he's actually WORKING!