Rosamund MARY Watson?

"No, Sherlock, we will not name our daughter after you... I will honour your murderer by naming my baby after her instead!"

BLEH!

Last edited by nakahara (December 12, 2016 10:46 am)

Really, John must be the first parent to name his child after the FAKE identity.
(shakes head in disbelief)

Fairy tales... Rosamund would fit well in a Grimm story 

Note to self:  Remember to call your doctor and have him up your anxiety meds before Christmas.

I did have a look at an actual paper Telegraph when I was out shopping earlier, and can confirm that this announcement is published in it.   So it's very public news now.  

I was tempted to buy it because I wondered if there were any other clues hidden there, and it seemed a coincidence that the death next to it was "Leinster" (I was thinking Leinster Gardens).  But I looked into that death and it seems that the person did sadly pass away, and the announcement is genuine.   I feel a little bad for treating the announcements as a puzzle, so I'm posting this in case anybody else ends up doing the same thing! 

Yes, I was thinking along those lines too.  Now I do think the baby's real (not 100% certain, of course, but if I had to put money on it either way, I'd go for real).  But I have also suspected that they might be doing something interesting with meshing fact and fiction, real life and TV.   There may be more to this than a simple little bit of publicity for the show. 

The other thing that struck me, is that printing in The Telegraph is a little odd.  We know that Mary's a Guardian reader (unless she's actually a guardian - I don't think that's ever been clarified).   For those outside the UK, the Guardian is left-wing paper, whereas the Telegraph is more of a right-wing, establishment paper. 

The other thing that's odd, is that you'd think the last thing Mary would do is seek publicity.  In her position, I'd want to be hiding my family away from the public eye.   So it's strange to announce the birth and possibly have a flashy christening as well (mind you, I thought the wedding was odd for the same reasons).   If Rosamund is actually the R in AGRA, which I suspect although I have no good reason to apart from liking the symmetry of the real name balancing out the fake one, it's even more foolhardy!

Unless it was a 'legal' thing that had been agreed with the Telegraph a while back? 

nakahara wrote:

LOL, yes, the newspapers are quite like fairy-tales nowadays.
It´s true that the birth dates are very bizarre here. Mary was heavily pregnant in HLV and TAB (in January) and yet she gives birth in December?

The thing about the dates is only bizarre if the reconciliation scene in HLV has been real and not MP...

This is scary. For many reasons.

No, this is even better. Mary has become a placeholder for Sherlock. John is wearing the same shirt as in the promo pic with Sherlock. Mary is wearing either Sherlock's jacket or one that looks exactly the same. They have become exchangeable.