Just eleborating... I think John watched a NOT SHERLOCK fake of some kind (hence Sherlock saying he's a fake and that it's all a magic trick) falling down. Molly is probably involved. And either homeless network/Mycroft for logistics. It's pretty interchangable. Still don't know if Sherlock jumped or not and where to.
 

Name is Omer, I'm a 23 year old student from Israel...
Loved the BBC adaptation.
Noticed the inconsistency in a rewatch today... already spent time after the first time I watched trying to solve the case. Today I saw this. Figured it's worth sharing.
 

Hi, Omer! Nice to have you with us.
As to the truck: It may be involved but to me it's more like a red herring. After all, the truck doesn't behave "normal" as it drives away the moment someone has landed on the pavement after having jumped off the roof. This would amount to failing to help a person in danger and, of course, be criminal.
 

Ha, I really really hope they avoided edit errors! I'm kind of assuming that they knew that this scene would be watched obsessively by fanboys and fangirls and hopefully didn't put in stuff like jumping trucks by accident I am assuming its very carefully crafted and I'll be really disapointed if it turns out he has unmentioned superpowers or something deus ex machina. I've noticed that he falls at the wrong speed-far too slow, as though he had some way of introducing air resistance/drag-and while I'm guessing that's dramatic license, I'm also aware that it might not be, that there IS something in this scene that we're probably missing.

So anyway, very interesting. And like another poster has said, the truck isn't normal. Trucks don't drive off to continue with their rounds when someone has committed suicide next to them. The drivers get out and offer to help. The truck, with its squishy contents, does have to be involved. I just don't see how he could have landed on it personally.

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looking-glass-girl wrote:

I think the question we should be asking is who is driving the truck? Is it Mycroft? Or a new character that will be introduced in the third series? 

Well, of course it wouldn't be Mycroft himself... but it's possible that he had to do something with the truck.

Clarifying. Filming is done from two different points of view. You can see this by the shots which appear on screen.

Davina wrote:

Clarifying. Filming is done from two different points of view. You can see this by the shots which appear on screen.

Actually, there are three seperately filmed sequences of Sherlock falling. 

This one is John's POV of Sherlock on the roof where he standing above the LOG in "Pathological Department"  just before he falls forward.   In every shot of him on the roof from John's POV, Sherlock is always in the same place.



We see him fall forward into space and then we see this, which is not the same place, as he is way past the LOG letters.  If you look at the frame before, it's not even the same roof. 


We follow him down three floors and then cut back to this shot below, which puts him back at the top:



While he would have been in the same position as the first shot, in front of the LOG, the first and second shots are in overcast.  You can actually see raindrops in some of the falling shots from the first sequence.  We all got teary at the rain starting with perfect timing just as he jumped.

Blue sky here means a different time, at least, and a different day, possibly.

I really don't care what they did, I do want to know what Moffat said about this. I'm all good with him showing the fall three times for dramatic effect, as we always go back to the top.  I just want to know if he has said, himself, so it can be considered Canonical, that all the shots are intended to be of the same person only falling once. Do you know if he ever said  that? 

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