Sherlock episode 2 thread!

[Allthingsprettyreturns]

Who is with me?

I think he was just googling him cos he was a bit jealous. He said John never mentions him then Mary said oh he does he talks about him non stop to me. Then she said John thinks he is the most unsociable man ever and he was put out as obviously he's the most unsociable man ever. It just piqued his interest I think. Plus it all helped him to solve who was going to be the victim at the wedding.

I think mostly the ep was just about the relationships. I think the murder plots weren't actually supposed to be that important, it was what was happening to Sherlock and Watson. Its like when Mrs Hudson was talking about how she never hardly saw her best friend again after her own wedding. She said that her friend had left the wedding early. She says something like ' who leaves a wedding early?' and then at the end we see Sherlock leaving to let everyone else enjoy themselves. Cos everything is going to change. No matter what they say.

Tsk Squoosh, you should know better than to believe anything Troels says!

Trying to decipher the trailer, Mary is conspicuous by her absence I feel certain she's going to be killed off so it's going to be really gut-wrenching

imho - he says "you should have driven faster" because he has some sympathy with the potential murderer - who has proven himself to be quite creative in tracking down his prey (Sherlock would appreciate that) and who is acting out of loss rather than being evil per se. After all, it is ODD for a superior officer to lose ALL his team of fairly new recruits and survive, no? So what really happened there?

I really enjoyed the episode - made me want to spend more time with them all.

BTW, did anyone else think that there was a very definite hint of The Doctor and his sonic screwdriver as Sherlock whipped out his toolkit when clueing for looks?

Also to clarify - Sherlock is curious and egotistical, yes, but I don't believe he would have been researching Sholto out of jealousy. HOWEVER, he may well have taken an interest because Mary drew attention to Sholto and he has already twigged that there is "something about Mary"...

Is Sherlock going to develop I nto The Doctor and John and Mary Watson will be Amy and Rory?

Probably - and Mark Gatiss will write everything...oops, I forgot, he already does .

Agree! The previous series were much better! Want a return to form! This one bordered on self-parody and self-adulation.

Re all the Lestrade love. I was obsessed with Rupert Graves when I was a school girl in the late 80s. I decorated my lever arch file with carefully cut out photos from magazines, lovingly arranged and overlapped and protected with clear Fablon.

25 years on, and I still would.

Lurlene - what started your Rupert Graves obsession then? Was it Room with a view?

I genuinely think people are over analysing certain parts of the episode. Mark Gatiss tweeted the other day that the ending was a reference to a Doctor Who ep called Green Death. Its when the Doctor's assistant Jo leaves him to get married thus ending her travels with him. He quietly slips away at the wedding and walks away. MG said it moved him as a child so he wanted to pay homage in this wedding ep as the stories were similar.

If Mary is a wrong'un, wouldn't she not have told them Sholto's room number?
After all, rushing there saved him.....or did she think Sherlock would fail again, and she could witness Sholto's death?

There was a story - but I can't remember whether it was a Holmes story or someone else, Father Brown maybe - where there was a big military defeat which a commanding officer had engineered in order to cover up a murder. Hiding one corpse in a pile of corpses being the general idea. Just came to mind, can anyone remember what it's called?

What did the trailer clear up? I've watched it I just didn't find it very illuminating

I think the big bad Cam, will be maybe an ex, a brother or a relative of Mary's but I think she won't be a wrong un. She'll most probably be frightened of him or trying to steer clear of him. Something like that.

Lestrade is a silver fox, no doubt about it.

'Maybe this was deliberate on the mayfly's part and the mastermind wanted sherlock and watson at the barracks for some reason?'

'they wouldnt have even taken on the guardsman case without mary playing her little thumbs up games'

Good points, giraffes!

And the more I read/think, the more I think the pregnancy 'revelation' and Mary's reaction to it were very suss indeed.

On a completely different note, I've left loads of weddings early and I'm neither a murderer nor a busy consulting detective. I must just be just ultra-antisocial

There's a spoilery article in a TV magazine now floating around on the net - don't click if you don't want advance knowledge of what's apparently going to be happening in the early stages of the episode. Link to san here.

• or link to scan even!