Sherlock episode 2 thread!

[Allthingsprettyreturns]

Who is with me?

According to a TV reviewer who's seen all three - we should not regard this as a standalone episode - but rather the whole series as one story told in three parts.

Also, there was a big clue in there somewhere pointing directly to sex god Lars Mikkelsen.

I predict that Sherlock leaving at the end was less to do with him feeling vulnerable & not really part of things and more to do with him having spotted that something was seriously amiss about Mary and going off to investigate.

(But I'm rarely right, tbf).

Agree, it's not as good.
Is it a new writer?

It's too easy!!! Not like Sherlock at all...

He promised to look after them. Going to go horribly wrong. I liked it. Sherlock has always been a larger than life figure.

I didn't understand a lot of it.

1: The ex-colleague of Watson, Watson asked him where he was living now (so he didn't know) but later Sherlock deduced that the nurse woman had seen the wedding invitation. How did he have an invitation if they didn't know where he lived?

2: Why did the photographer go on dates with the women who worked for the ex-soldier. What did he get from them?

1. Sherlock said that all the women had a secret. What was their secret and how was it relevant?

1. How did the photographer get the job as photographer.

I think there was more but that's all I can think of for now.

All in all, quite a disappointing episode. I liked drunk Sherlock and Watson, but as PPs have mentioned it was wrong for Sherlock to become self-aware regarding his social skills.

Oh yeah and why did Sherlock chat to all the women simultaneously on several different computers and laptops. Has he not heard of having multiple tabs open on one device?

Hettie is LM "Red Beard" Mycroft referred to, then??

Riffy this is what I have assumed but others may have different opinions:

1. I would assume there were channels through which Watson could get the invitation to his old CO without knowing the address (eg am sure Mycroft could have helped deliver a message to an ex military man in hiding)
2. He was just going out with as many women as possible until he found one with a current connection to Watson's old CO - as he wanted to find a chink in the secrecy surrounding the ex-CO that would help him identify where the ex-CO would be at some point in time so he could kill him
3. Their secret was that they all were working for or had previously worked for Watson's old CO
4. We can assume that having found out the ex-CO had been invited to the wedding, somehow or other the photographer identified the photographer who had been booked and then either told him the booking was cancelled and took his place, or attacked him etc to ensure he could not make it - and took his place. OR someone helped him do it - and this actually may point towards Hettie's mention of LM playing a part in the ep..

Missed the last q - you could be charitable and say that he was simultaneously interviewing so many women it would have fried 1 or 2 laptops - or just say that it looked better that way on telly

I think the wife chose the photographer. Knowing John had invited the army bloke.

The writers are making us laugh but I predict the next one to be very very dark.

I loved it. Thought it was very witty and really well acted.

I agree the next episode is going to be very dark to counterpoint the lightness if this one.

Also agree the next one is going to be fast, furious, and dark!
Nerf - good idea about Mary potentially inviting the photographer - that would add to our suspicions!

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I think I'm a genius & I think I've figured out the clue. I'm so certain I'm right that, just in case, please don't read on if you don't want to know (although this is just my own thoughts).....

Sherlock gave Mary a very significant look after he'd announced the pregnancy.

We're all mums....what's the very, very first thing we all did/do when we find out we're pregnant, or suspect we might be? Well, Mary didn't do it!

I love it!

You lot are hard to please.

But yes, think next episode will be dark and shocking, after making us laugh and go aww and get the warm and fuzzies the first two episodes. Well I've got the warm and fuzzies, most of you have the grumps.

I thought the drunk scene was hilarious. Just so out of character for them.

However, I suspect Mary is not all she seems. If any of you remember, when SH first clapped eyes on her, several descriptions came onto the screen, one being LIAR.

Watch this space boys and girls...

Oh and as for Sherlock being so self aware of his faults apparently. Well I think that's a new thing to him. The first two series I do think he genuinely didn't see them. But he's been different since he's come back. He's learnt this stuff about himself while away. Many hours missing John and wishing he'd been a better friend etc.

I think too much about this man.

Mary better have a gruesome death because I can't stand it when characters get married off and settled down. Hoping it gets darker, this episode was poop and I do something I never do when Sherlock is on - pottered around for a bit filling in ACTUAL FORMS FOR RL STUFF.

Hettie, sorry, being dim here: what didn't Mary do??

I have a completely different theory, which is probably wrong.

warning this could be complete bobbins

When it kept mentioning about Mary losing weight etc. I didn't think she was pregnant, I wondered if she was ill and lying about.

She keeps pushing John and Sherlock back together, I wonder if she is making plans for after her demise.

She could die I suppose, Sherlock started to mention something about stats in the first trimester didn't he, but Watson stopped him.

Don't recall the 'liar' thing when Sherlock first saw Mary at all!!!

when sherlock does his brain map thing. or whatever it is called, all these words came up about mary. including liar. guardian reader. bilingual, can'trememberany more

yesterday episode well it didnt have mark gatiss name at top as the writer, it had steve tompkins, or something and mark's name last, which should have been ominous.

too much weird about sherlock.
funny in parts

I think these writers are so much smarter than us and they've deliberately given this odd (but brilliant) episode, probably knowing it might be unpopular, and they're going to whack us all with a sledgehammer in the last episode.

Just had to stick my tuppence worth in here. I loved it.

But I thought it very significant the scene where Mary was standing in front of the stags head and appeared to have horns. She's a bad 'un I reckon.

Dh is a Conan Doyle fan and gets all the references, he says there is a story about someone being killed by a skewer. Major James is also a character in one of the books

Loved Molly's wedding outfit!