h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wonder if the signifance of St Barts hospital is just to create a sort-of pun: roof of Barts fall = Reichenbach Falls.

I'm inclined to believe Watson was drugged somehow (probably by the cyclist) using the drug from last week - Watson saw what he expected to see - and it was Moriaty's body dropped from the roof.

And Molly removed it in the morgue.

I'm still not sure Watson *did* take the body's pulse. Someone did, but it seemed to me that Watson was kept away by the crowd.
Still, I suppose that's irrelevant if the corpse was a ringer, as my current theory stands.

They did a body swap trick in the first episode ("A Scandal in Belgravia") - so it's not without precedence.

It's in the title. It was Richard Brook who fell.

The 'stopping the pulse' trick was, I believe, part of one of the Sherlock books: it was certainly known about in Victorian times. And, of course, it was espoused in the (first) Guy Ritchie film. Which, being in the present day, you'd have expected Freeman and Cumberbatch to have seen...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16573066

So there will be a third series. At least this time the cliff hanger explanation should be stronger that at the swimming pool at the start of this series.

Spoiler alert!

Well that's the end of that, Sherlock jumps off the building and
splats on the floor. Watson goes into therapy and we end up at the graveside.
End of story....
but hang about, why there's Sherlock lurking in the background.
Is he a ghost or was it all a dream sequence after all?
Methinks it's shades of golden goose as far as the BBC is concerned.
Not that I'm complaining though since the whole thing has been brilliant.

Maybe it was all a Bobby Ewing?

That was one helluva ending; I was almost convinced Sherlock really was a goner The writing just gets better and better so I can't wait for series 3!

"That was one helluva ending; I was almost convinced Sherlock really was a goner The writing just gets better and better so I can't wait for series 3!"

In series three I hear he will get one of those boob implants and will change his/her name to Shirley.

I think comics have ruined me for things like this. In comics, nobody ever dies permanently. Even the most definitive ending in which the character is blown into atoms, the atoms scattered across the universe, the genome data banks scoured, etc. will only last as long as they feel like leaving the character dead.
It leaves you with a blasé attitude to character death. Even if it seems certain they are dead, you can always say "If the writers want him to, he'll be back under some pretext. If we're lucky, it'll even be quite a clever pretext." When you look at it like that, the series can very well terminate while the character is still alive, so death doesn't actually mean anything in the long run...

They had to make 2 Morse Christmas specials after he'd died - though again the author wanted him dead, and thus far Colin Dexter has resisted re-inventing him - a young Morse series was postulated I believe.

I think th TV Mycroft is far superior to the film one, though logically Stephen Fry would be the man for the role. Couldn't help noticing in the bare foor shot of him at the end he does have very large feet - maybe he is a hobbit ?

I read somewhere that Arthur Conan Doyle originally killed off the character because he wanted to start writing proper literary stuff.

He intended to but brought him back after *that* waterfall fight

He wanted to spend more time writing historical fiction and felt that Holmes was getting in the way of him being able to concentrate on that.

"Methinks it's shades of golden goose as far as the BBC is concerned."

I take it you're unfamiliar with the pressure campaign after Conan Doyle killed off Holmes by having him fall from Reichenbach Falls?

Sort of.

Got distracted for a bit whilst writing that post because I was explaining it to Mrs. D...

I think the real test for the series will be series 4 - which will be entirely written - unless they intend to do the house of silk.

The Guardian message boards were pretty much taken up with the ending.
Concensus seems to be divided between Moriarty wearing a Sherlock mask
so Holmes threw him off, and a garbage truck conveniently parked underneath. Had to be open topped of course and full of soft rubbish.