BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / TST - what is real in this episode?

**Posted by besleybean** January 8, 2017 6:36 pm

I can accept continuity errors, they just don't bother me at all.

**Posted by Naavy** January 8, 2017 6:44 pm

But sometimes continuity error appears to be not the error, but very important hint...

**Posted by Liberty** January 8, 2017 6:46 pm

besleybean wrote:
Love it!
Although I have to confess something...after 2 viewings- I don't even remember the exploding wall

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It's after Mycroft talks about the Samarra/Sumatra story. It explodes and becomes a smashed Thatcher bust.

**Posted by besleybean** January 8, 2017 6:46 pm

EDIT: oh sorry, another cross post.
I vaguely remember...

Of course...but I'm trying to think of any we have seen in Sherlock to date?
That is, I can't think of any things we thought were clues, that actually turned out to be so.
I only remember the different tie thing, which indeed turned out to be just a continuity error.

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**Posted by JP** January 8, 2017 6:47 pm

But, unlike in other productions, they might be important (at least that's the impression I have) but one cannot tell one from another.
BTW, did we have anything that might be considered a goof, that turned out to be important in S1-3 (beside JL theories)?

**Posted by besleybean** January 8, 2017 6:50 pm

This is exactly my point, JP.
All I have is a long list of wild theories from others, which I didn't believe at the time and I feel I have so far been proved right.

**Posted by JP** January 8, 2017 7:26 pm

Okham's Razor works also in this case. At least most of the time.

**Posted by besleybean** January 8, 2017 7:28 pm

Has always worked for me so far.

**Posted by Liberty** January 8, 2017 7:38 pm

Just another point - we've been told that TLD is "trippy", and it does look like it may contain parts that aren't real (just guessing). I think we need TST to be real in contrast. A kind of anchor for the start.

**Posted by besleybean** January 8, 2017 7:40 pm

They do like their trippy, don't they?!

**Posted by Lola Red** January 8, 2017 8:00 pm

ewige wrote:
I don't know how Mike's office can be all MP.

Hahaha, "Mike's office" ? Love it!

**Posted by JP** January 8, 2017 8:29 pm

From the Setlock and those snippets we were shown it certainly will be trippy. A lot.

**Posted by Liberty** January 8, 2017 11:26 pm

Well, it looks like TST was pretty much real, thankfully!

**Posted by JP** January 9, 2017 2:33 am

Not sure about if I like it this way though.

**Posted by kgreen20** January 9, 2017 3:58 am

besleybean wrote:
I certainly don't think every single scene has been MP.
Incidentally on the dvd commentary, Mark and Steven discuss that Mycroft has several offices.

Just seen your post kgreen...er no thank you, not really my thing.

Not really your thing, huh? =)

**Posted by Liberty** January 9, 2017 8:52 am

I do like it this way, JP. I'm very pleased that it was real. It feels like they're telling a proper story, that events in S3 lead to events in S4 and so on, rather than everything being vague and mind-palacey. They have actually been quite restrained in their use of mind palace this time!

**Posted by JP** January 9, 2017 12:38 pm

But why the weird changes in the set? Why the effort if it means nothing? This is my main problem. :-)

**Posted by besleybean** January 9, 2017 4:37 pm

Maybe they lost some of the old set...it has been known.
I have to say I rarely notice stuff like set, I'm too busy looking at characters and listening to dialogue.

**Posted by JP** January 9, 2017 6:11 pm

The blue skull is to distinctive. And there would be an easy way to make a replica looking close enough.
But Arwel made a new one, investing a lot of work into it, merging a pic of Billy the Skull (that's a different one too, btw), ACD text and ACD portrait together. The frame even might be backlit.
I just wonder. Just wonder…

**Posted by besleybean** January 9, 2017 6:53 pm

Oh sorry yes, on the skull...but I think it's deliberate.