I think we're to believe in that context that they are showing the audience what really happened but in the series universe, none of the supporting characters were told the truth.

Sherlock was in the train compartment fearing death & then feigning that he was fearing death after the timer stopped but there are still explosives all around them.

I'm still of the opinion that the conversation he had with Anderson was all in his head and that in the real world he didn't tell anybody asides from the people who already knew and had helped him to plan it.

Why wouldn't he wanna explain himself? Well partly because it's no longer relevant in terms of even John doesn't how anymore he just cares about why & partly because the truth is his last dance. If he just says it outright, people will go "oh was that it?" But if he waits until the last minute, when he's about to retire, he's still got one more amazing story up his sleeves.

Last edited by saturnR (January 20, 2014 10:30 am)

Although in one of the extras the director of TEH also said they were now filming the "real" version of the fall, so who knows...

I proposed a solution about a year ago that involved asking Microft for help (the "uncharacteristic thing Sherlock did"), and having Mycroft provide a team of government agents and policemen to cordon off the street and be ready to execute the hoax. 

The laundry truck would  deliver an ordinary fireman's safety net, folded in half (as they're designed to do) and then sneak it out again.  The fake by-standers would assist Sherlock in playing dead with blood all over him, and the cyclist would knock John down so the fireman's safety net could be tossed back into the laundry truck before it drove away,

In short, a solid plan with much fewer things to go wrong.



 

Last edited by Bruce Cook (December 28, 2015 5:38 am)

Actually you may turn out not to be that late to the party...
There is a rumour that we may actually return to this in S4.