vilakins | Sherlock: The Empty Hearse

I've been looking forward to this for so long, and it was fun!

I expected Sherlock to just show up, not be rescued from Serbia by Mycroft, because the Many Happy Returns webisode showed him getting closer to London as he worked his way across Europe from Tibet. Or was all that in the fevered imagination of Anderson turned nutter fan in a copy of John's jersey? Or did the Serbian thing happen after that?

Poor Watson when Sherlock let so many others into the secret. He never said, but I suppose he wanted obvious and open grief. And then Lestrade hugs Sherlock when I thought he was going to slug him too.

I guessed the Underground part of the network fairly early on. "Ha!" I yelled when Sumatra Street got a mention, "Lord Moran is the Giant Rat of Sumatra!"

The first explanation of Sherlock's survival was seriously OTT and after all a bungee and a broken window would be noticed, but that was Anderson again. The second, the Sherlock/Moriarty slash one, was very funny. The third was very, very close to

quarryquest's theory, complete with ball under the armpit. But was that the real one, or something John was thinking about as he waited for the explosion, or Sherlock playing with Anderson? Sherlock after all hasn't told John all his 13 possibilities yet, or which one he chose.

Who is Glasses Guy at the end, and what did he hope to prove by putting John in a bonfire and then giving out all those clues? Surely he already knew Sherlock and Mary cared, so what else has he discovered? And was he connected with Moran and his bomb?

There's another one this weekend; yay! I wish they did more than three in a season.

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Second the wish of more than 3 even if they are 90 minutes long.I do like the varied tales of "how I did it", including Derren Brown's guest appearance.

John's reaction was funny the second time but rather less funny by the time he hut Sherlock the third time. I did like the spiral downwards of restaurant to cafe as they got chucked out for brawling.

That and did anyone notice that Benedict Cumberbatch appeared to react to the eyebrow pencil and the reversing clock? It showed 2.29 after it was supposedly counting down.

I noticed his upper lip was red after he wiped the pencil off; maybe they did several takes. How do you mean he reacted to the clock? He was pretty upset and frustrated by not knowing about bombs, but he'd already turned it off.

I didn't mean react to the clock, I meant did anyone notice the clock time jumped back to 2:29?

I just noticed that it seemed to be counting down awfully slowly.

I'm a pacifist, and I didn't think John hit Sherlock nearly enough. I cheered every time he did it, and I'd have had a fourth round in the bomb car, after Sherlock revealed he'd been winding John up to hear the eulogy again; the police should have arrived to find two men fighting in the car, and assumed one was the terrorist until they stopped to explain.

That would've been an excellent scene!

A very good start for fandom in 2014!

I really loved that we have not been handed the definitive answer to how Sherlock's death was faked. I loved that Sherlock got the reaction from Lestrade that he expected (wanted) from John. :)

And Sherlock's parents, wonderful. Sherlock/Moriarty - oh, poor John.

My fandoms got tangled however with the mention of the Underground. I was thinking didn't Sherlock say in a previous episode that the Underground was " A key strategic weakness in metropolitan living"? Ha, ha , no he didn't - that was Dr Who in The Snowmen; although Matt Smith had been representing himself as Sherlock Holmes earlier in the episode. Mr Moffatt and Mr Gatiss playing with us.

Looking forward to the next episodes but then it seems it will be a long wait to see Peter Capaldi as xii. I'm also hoping to see a second series of Endeavour this year!

I took 30 seconds to smile at the thought of John and Sherlock finding another train carriage. Only that would require the Turtles to be set in england and not New York - and there would be a giant rat then! :¬)

I'm thinking it was something relatively simple, not something so complex and involving so many people with far too many things to go wrong.

The parents (played by BD's real parents) were surprisingly ordinary, esp after Sherlock and Mycroft had discussed how Sherlock was the stupid one in the family till they met other children.

Ooh, more Endeavour! That'll be something to look forward to. Is that definite?

Benedict's parents' cameo was just another delight of this show. And more of a delight to see that his mum was in another old fandom, UFO.

Listening to the conversation about Sherlock being the stupid one, I can see that the brothers were referring to their own impressions of each other, rather than the whole family's beliefs. The parents were wonderfully ordinary.

I have read a few reports that Endeavour (http://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/endeavour-goes-back-production-second-series#.UsfEvH8aySM) is returning. Hopefully it's happening.

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