BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Classic error in this show

**Posted by kazza474** June 21, 2012 9:52 am

.. and only the Aussies will know it for sure.

**Posted by Dramagod** June 21, 2012 10:06 am

Teasing non-Australians like this. I can smell the human rights violation.

Last edited by Dramagod (June 21, 2012 10:11 am)

**Posted by SusiGo** June 21, 2012 10:15 am

signed: a poor, ignorant Non-Australian

**Posted by Sentimental Pulse** June 21, 2012 10:51 am

No hints? Even Moriarty gave hints

**Posted by kazza474** June 21, 2012 11:20 am

I want to see if the few Aussies here have an idea.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** June 21, 2012 11:26 am

Clearly something to do with the boomerang.

**Posted by kazza474** June 21, 2012 11:28 am

Clearly. Geez even you could guess this one, hehehe

**Posted by SusiGo** June 21, 2012 11:44 am

Oh, I am ashamed. Even a German like me could have remembered the boomerang. But I must admit, I still don't see the error. (five minutes later) Well, I now I've read something about boomerangs. There a returning and non-returning ones. Fine. Could it be that the boomerang shown in ASiB is a non-returning one?

**Posted by Davina** June 21, 2012 11:45 am

Don't tell me...he wasn't killed by a boomerang...he was killed by a ...wild kangaroo!

**Posted by kazza474** June 21, 2012 12:14 pm

SusiGo wrote:
Oh, I am ashamed. Even a German like me could have remembered the boomerang. But I must admit, I still don't see the error. (five minutes later) Well, I now I've read something about boomerangs. There a returning and non-returning ones. Fine. Could it be that the boomerang shown in ASiB is a non-returning one?

You are probably the closest.

Every Aussie knows the boomerangs sold to tourists NEVER return; and the ones we but (if ever) don't either! lol (joke)
They're like many things, it's a fine skill to get a returning one to actually return and that dude did NOT have enough of a suntan to suggest he'd spent enough time outside practising!
I'd say the cows in the field were under more of a threat that the traveller hehehe.

The other thing I would say is those markings don't look very Aboriginal to me.

And lastly, it wasn't the boomerang that dealt the fatal blow. He was clearly hit in the side of the head or neck & the rock that he fell on actually killed him. So I can't see why there was this big 'no sign of a murder weapon' thing going on there.

They're such amateurs!

**Posted by kazza474** June 21, 2012 12:15 pm

Davina wrote:
Don't tell me...he wasn't killed by a boomerang...he was killed by a ...wild kangaroo!

What self respecting kangaroo would venture that far North Huh?

**Posted by Davina** June 21, 2012 12:57 pm

An escapee from a zoo! Tunnelled it's way out like in The Great Escape! Got rid of its Aussie accent and voila! Easy, when you know how! Lol

Last edited by Davina (June 21, 2012 1:02 pm)

**Posted by imane nikko** June 21, 2012 1:26 pm

It's funny the things that catch your eye... I would never have noticed the boomerang, but I was watching with my mother (an artist) and when they first showed the "Lost Vermeer" she actually laughed out loud and said "no way." For me it was the Chinese gang leader folding origami lotuses. I guess even a production as careful as this one can't get everything quite right.

**Posted by JaneCo** June 22, 2012 8:48 pm

Ahem... careful when you mock our wildlife! If Wallabys can become established in the Peak District (further north) then I'm sure a few hardy Kangaroos could be eeking out a meagre living in the Welsh Valleys (or wherever they're supposed to be).

**Posted by besleybean** October 6, 2012 8:00 am

I have always thought the boomerang shot was intentional.

**Posted by kazza474** October 6, 2012 8:07 am

Oh it's intentional.

What I was saying was that the boomerang was a tourist souvenir; and many of them are probably made in China & don't really return at all, lol.
It was a semi-joke.

The chances that guy learned the skills to getting it to return straight to him are pretty small, going on personal experience.

**Posted by besleybean** October 6, 2012 8:14 am

But it's TV, darling! Ha,

**Posted by kazza474** October 6, 2012 8:17 am

besleybean wrote:
But it's TV, darling! Ha,

Surely you jest !!!???

**Posted by Mattlocked** October 6, 2012 9:17 am

kazza474 wrote:
....

The chances that guy learned the skills to getting it to return straight to him are pretty small, going on personal experience.

And that's exactly the reason why!
That guy tried and tried without any effort so he wouldn't think for a second that it might return this time!

**Posted by besleybean** October 6, 2012 10:19 am

Like your thinking!