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James Norrington · March 26, 2016 12:33 am

Lilythiell wrote:
I'll just call it hardcore dedication to deducting ;)

Oh yes, that's it! :D It's a well known condition among Sherlock fans, I guess...

Jawn · March 26, 2016 12:33 am

James Norrington wrote:
... you spend a huge amount of the day searching the internet and the episode regarding a strange white thing that seemed to just have appeared on a character's clothing from out of nowhere and you desperatately want to find out what it could be. But you can't see it on screen, although you watch the sequence forth and back over and over again and then you finally find some screencaps which you can lighten up and there you see that it's just a part of the tie that hasn't been visible before... :D :D :D

LOL!! I feel like every Sherlockian has done something like that before

besleybean · March 26, 2016 8:49 am

I think I was as bad for that the first couple of series, but other than trying to deduce Mary, not so bad since.

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James Norrington · March 26, 2016 12:45 pm

Well, it wasn't in the third series, it was a part of TRF that suddenly caught my attention. I am having a cold and my brain doesn't work properly and focuses on strange things, and therefore I had to solve the case of the 'Unexpected Appearance of the back of Moriarty's tie' on the rooftop. :D

Btw. that's another one: You are having a cold and probably fever but should actually be cleaning your room and packing up because you're moving out next week but what do you do instead? Exactly, watch the entire second series of Sherlock.

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This Is The Phantom Lady · March 28, 2016 3:04 pm

You know it's bad when you flick through an advert for the beauty store, and you read 'Estee Lauder' in the Dungeon Lady's voice.

ukaunz · March 28, 2016 8:22 pm

Ha! That's funny. My brain does stuff like that too

Lilythiell · March 28, 2016 9:01 pm

Mine as well.
The most recent occurrence was when I asked for 'some silence right now [which] would be marvellous'.

Oopsie.
Or not.

Lilythiell · March 29, 2016 9:59 pm

When you watch Casablanca (yes, finally) with a colleague, and a character says that if the other takes another step he would not hesitate to kill him.

And later on in the film you refrain from crying because, well, the Tarmac scene *sobs*

gently69 · March 30, 2016 7:24 am

When you feel the need to play "yellow car" every time you're on the road.
Now you say: Wrong show! That's not even TV!
But... without Sherlock no deeper interest in Benedict, no interests in his other work, no Cabin Pressure, no Ottery St Mary, no "yellow car".
So, you see, everything starts with Sherlock.

Lilythiell · March 30, 2016 7:26 am

Exactly!

And like "yellow car", it never ends :D

Russell · March 30, 2016 5:01 pm

Exactly! Confession - I still haven't even caught up with Cabin Pressure yet, aside from just a couple clips. It's just thanks to Sherlock -> Benedict -> brushing up on his stuff (but mostly thanks to being informed by the fandom here and hearing about bits) that it became a 'thing'. I see at least one yellow cars a week around this small town anyway, so it's a fun little tie-in game for just a smile. Hey, it was either that, or still play my game of getting a smile every time I saw a yellow car (more so if it was a Beetle or proper sports car with black stripe on hood) and think 'Bumblebee!' (as in 'Transformers'). I even saw a bright yellow antique car the other day!

Lilythiell · March 30, 2016 5:58 pm

Lol in your own time, Russell
On the topic of cars -and, well, Sherlock - I was driving earlier on and passed a car which had ARW on its license plate. I naturally thought of Arwel

xthismeanswar · April 3, 2016 6:33 pm

When you're walking along pavement and you can see a black car driving slowly next to you and you just think "No Mycroft, not again".
I've got it twice.

Lilythiell · April 3, 2016 7:50 pm

When driving along the motorway you must refuel your car, you see a sleek black car and wonder what Mycroft is doing there. In France.

And then you name your dog Moriarty.

Lilythiell · April 5, 2016 11:43 am

When you walk your dog and think 'I have Moriarty on a leash'.
mwahahaha

MaryJane · April 6, 2016 8:11 am

... when you start rewatching the show because you signed up to a Sherlock Forum. And then start watching 2 epsiodes right after each other because you can`t stop.

Oh and not forgetting about going to bed very late eventhough you have to get up early the next morning :D

tonnaree · April 6, 2016 11:59 am

When your idea of a "weekend get away" is staying in a hotel with 700 crazy people who share your obsession.

Lilythiell · April 6, 2016 12:06 pm

...when Moriarty tries to make you fall :-P

nakahara · April 6, 2016 12:20 pm

Lilythiell wrote:
...when Moriarty tries to make you fall :-P

LOL!

Harriet · April 6, 2016 12:54 pm