BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Why does Soo Lin Yao live next to Lucky Cat?

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** April 21, 2012 9:54 am

Surely if she was trying to distance herself from her brother and the Black Lotus then living right next door to one of their HQs is kind of crazy?

**Posted by kazza474** April 21, 2012 10:00 am

But her brother didn't live there; he tours with the circus.
Also, I don't think the Lucky Cat was a HQ of any sort, just a drop off point. It may not even be a regular drop off point, just one used while the circus is in town.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** April 21, 2012 10:03 am

imo it serves the cliché: All Chinese people in London live in Chinatown...

**Posted by kazza474** April 21, 2012 10:08 am

Oh it certainly is a bit. The whole Chinese thing was VERY over the top cliché.
That was one of the disappointments of this show.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** April 21, 2012 10:13 am

Haha yeah, true about the cliches.

So it's just a major coincidence that she lives there then? She might not even know they used that place as a drop off point?

**Posted by kazza474** April 21, 2012 10:24 am

They probably have drop off points everywhere to divert suspicions.

**Posted by Tantalus** May 29, 2012 8:24 pm

Well, sorry to heap aspersions on this already-much-maligned episode, but does anyone else think it absolutely incredible that Sherlock would notice Soo Lin's flat simply because the phone book was outside the door? The open window wasn't on the street, so the resident(s) could in fact have "gone on holiday". And even if it did look suspicious to him, I just can't suspend belief sufficiently to believe that the flat was "coincidentally" rented by Soo Lin.

**Posted by kazza474** May 30, 2012 7:04 am

Well frankly let's face it, if she didn't live there, there would have been a lot of dead ends & probably would have taken weeks to connect her going missing or being dead with any of the other things going on. In which case an unsolved mystery probably.

Once I remind people , they don't make shows about 'ordinary days where nothing happens', people do their laundry & grocery shopping and the world is a happy place.

**Posted by Wholocked** May 30, 2012 7:17 am

kazza474 wrote:
people do their laundry

I see your "they don't make shows about ordinary days where people do their laundry" and I raise you one Big Bang Theory ;)

edit: typo

Last edited by Wholocked (May 30, 2012 7:17 am)

**Posted by kazza474** May 30, 2012 9:03 am

I wish you kids wouldn't talk about shows I have no idea about.

**Posted by Tantalus** May 30, 2012 1:45 pm

kazza474 wrote:
Well frankly let's face it, if she didn't live there, there would have been a lot of dead ends & probably would have taken weeks to connect her going missing or being dead with any of the other things going on. In which case an unsolved mystery probably.

Once I remind people , they don't make shows about 'ordinary days where nothing happens', people do their laundry & grocery shopping and the world is a happy place.

Well, true that. However, that moment seemed almost to have been written by whoever wrote the script for the "National Treasure" movies (which, notwithstanding their utter implausibility, I absolutely loved!).

**Posted by Smoggy_London_Air** May 31, 2012 1:40 am

@Tantalus That comment about National Treasure made me chuckle. I loved those movies when I was younger (oh my god, that was EIGHT YEARS AGO) but I recently rewatched them and starting poking all these holes in it. Really annoyed my family. Unfortunately, they do the opposite to me when we watch Sherlock. "You know they could trace that call, right?" "You know that Semtex can't be set off by a bullet, right?" And I just want to say "Stop maligning my favorite series!"

I think maybe Soo Lin lived in Chinatown because she was more comfortable with the language? Like even though I've been learning French for two years, I would still want to live in an English area of Paris if I moved there. Just to ease my way. I guess I'm just defending that slightly cliché decision. XD

**Posted by Davina** May 31, 2012 7:50 am

So much hinged on her living in Chinatown in this episode that they had to have her living there. Of course it is a dreadful cliche, sadly much of that episode is.

**Posted by besleybean** October 5, 2012 7:31 pm

Or just a happy coincidence.

**Posted by Sam** October 5, 2012 7:59 pm

I thought her name was next to the door? Or am I remembering wrong?

And also, the guy from the museum left a note for her on her door addressing her I believe?

**Posted by besleybean** October 5, 2012 9:50 pm

Er, yes. Sorry, did I miss something?!

**Posted by Sam** October 5, 2012 10:40 pm

^ Sorry, I should have quoted who I was responding to, I wasn't responding to your comment. I was referring to -

Tantalus wrote:
Well, sorry to heap aspersions on this already-much-maligned episode, but does anyone else think it absolutely incredible that Sherlock would notice Soo Lin's flat simply because the phone book was outside the door? The open window wasn't on the street, so the resident(s) could in fact have "gone on holiday". And even if it did look suspicious to him, I just can't suspend belief sufficiently to believe that the flat was "coincidentally" rented by Soo Lin.

And a couple other comments questioning how Sherlock knew it was her apt./flat.

**Posted by besleybean** October 6, 2012 7:27 am

Because it's a TV series and he's Sherlock.
More on the writing and writer of this episode...elsewhere!

**Posted by kazza474** October 6, 2012 8:11 am

besleybean wrote:
Because it's a TV series and he's Sherlock.
More on the writing and writer of this episode...elsewhere!

Pretty descriptive answer really. Why are ANY 'heroes' in the right place at the right time & guessing the right solutions?
Because if not, you would have a boring show.

I find it fascinating how people want to suspend reality enough to go off on very odd tangents with wild theories & fantasies of future shows, yet the simplest things like 'how come he knew this & that" which are the basis for most shows of this kind are mocked.

**Posted by besleybean** October 6, 2012 10:22 am

I'm rapidly becoming aware on here that people are prepared to entertain all kinds of fantasies, while choosing to skip by the blindingly obvious!
This fandom falls over itself with irony upon irony. Ha!