BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Continuity Errors/Slip Ups/Technical Mistakes

**Posted by Mnemosyne** November 29, 2012 9:33 pm

SusiGo wrote:
tobeornot221b wrote:
Oh, that's cool, Mnemosyne! Haven't noticed that before.
I can't believe that. You've got the sharpest eyes in the forum.

Thank you both very much.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** December 2, 2012 8:39 pm

Found another one.
"The Mystery of the De- and Rematerialising Tea Towel":

**Posted by QuiteExtraordinary** December 2, 2012 9:08 pm

If it had only dematerialised, I would have said Sherlock used it to mop up spilt acid. But that it rematerialised again ... that is odd.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** December 7, 2012 8:44 pm

During the last minutes, I was having fun with finding out some continuity mistakes from the scene in Irene's house.
That scene has to be the result from assembling it from several takes.

**Posted by Mrs.Wenceslas** December 23, 2012 3:20 pm

don´t know if somebody mentioned that, but the Vermeer painting in TGG cannot be Vermeer...he wasn´t a landscape painter at all

**Posted by besleybean** December 23, 2012 4:32 pm

My daughter's an art history student and she seems to think he did.

**Posted by Harriet** December 23, 2012 6:29 pm

Uhm, is veduta/cityscape the same as landscape? I don't think so.
He did one or two vedute, but landscape?

**Posted by SusiGo** December 23, 2012 6:31 pm

I think he mainly did portraits and domestic scenes like the famous "Girl with pearl earring" and the "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter". He did paint a view of the city of Delft which was used by the makers of Sherlock as a basis for the "Lost Vermeer". Here some information I found on tumblr:

View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer.
The original “Lost Vermeer� painting from The Great Game.

View of Delft was painted by Vermeer between 1660 and 1661 and shows a view of the artist’s hometown. It is an oil on canvas and is currently housed in The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague. Perhaps Vermeer’s most popular painting is Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Sherlock’s production designers have recreated the original painting to show a night scene, cutting out a portion from the top and bottom of the canvas. They have kept the cityscape almost identical.

**Posted by Harriet** December 23, 2012 6:32 pm

Thanks, Susi, this is interesting. Thanks, Mrs. Wenceslas, for bringing this up

**Posted by Mrs.Wenceslas** January 5, 2013 3:56 pm

SusiGo wrote:
I think he mainly did portraits and domestic scenes like the famous "Girl with pearl earring" and the "Woman in Blue Reading a Letter". He did paint a view of the city of Delft which was used by the makers of Sherlock as a basis for the "Lost Vermeer". Here some information I found on tumblr:

View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer.
The original “Lost Vermeer�� painting from The Great Game.

View of Delft was painted by Vermeer between 1660 and 1661 and shows a view of the artist’s hometown. It is an oil on canvas and is currently housed in The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague. Perhaps Vermeer’s most popular painting is Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Sherlock’s production designers have recreated the original painting to show a night scene, cutting out a portion from the top and bottom of the canvas. They have kept the cityscape almost identical.

I was seeing but not observing, obviously. thanks!

**Posted by tobeornot221b** January 6, 2013 6:56 pm

When I watched TRF for the first time I was like: "OMG, they put Sherlock and Moriarty in the same lockup – not quite a good idea!"(Red herring by wicked writer, obviously. )
But if this is meant to be at least neighbouring cells in the same building, just have a careful look at the window and the wall tiles: This scene apparently has been shot separately in the same room with finally the two images merged into one.

**Posted by besleybean** January 6, 2013 6:57 pm

Possibly...but wouldn't the cells be identical, anyway?

**Posted by Harriet** January 6, 2013 6:58 pm

I always imagined them being separated by a wall, just like sensing each other
- but of course this cannot be, given the window

**Posted by tobeornot221b** January 6, 2013 7:00 pm

besleybean wrote:
Possibly...but wouldn't the cells be identical, anyway?

Identical, yes, but not clones!

Last edited by tobeornot221b (March 2, 2013 8:46 pm)

**Posted by tobeornot221b** March 2, 2013 8:53 pm

I've just been watching Reichenbach and I came to notice for the first time that Moriarty - when the police rush into the tower - is wearing an ermine robe that definitely hasn't been in that display case before.
Where has it come from?

**Posted by Harriet** March 2, 2013 9:12 pm

From a box under the chair?

**Posted by Michele** March 4, 2013 4:10 am

Harriet wrote:
I always imagined them being separated by a wall, just like sensing each other
- but of course this cannot be, given the window

I agree. I doubt very much they would put them in a position to talk to one another. Surely that would be in contempt of court or something.

**Posted by Davina** March 4, 2013 11:17 am

It is just a cinematic split-screen effect. They wouldn't be in the same cell.

**Posted by Harriet** March 4, 2013 12:29 pm

Like I said, look at the windows - the shadows clearly show that.

**Posted by Cabear5** March 15, 2013 3:53 am

In PINK, Sherlock meets Watson outside to show him the Baker St. Apt. He is explaining how he knows Mrs. Hudson. She opens the door and says, "Sherlock, look at you." and embraces him as if she hasn't seen in since her husband's trial. Problem is, he moved into the apartment already and in the next scene, she's admonishing him for the mess he has made in the kitchen.