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our_bbcsherlockHey all! Another weekend, another subject to discuss. (Thank you again to Scandalbaby for sending me all these great articles.)
http://www.cracked.com/article_20943_5-movies-tv-shows-with-brilliant-clues-in-dialogue.html
So, today’s article comes from Cracked.com. There is an article called 5 Movies and TV Shows with Brilliant Clues in the Dialogue. It lists things like Buffy and The Matrix. (See the above link to read the whole article.)
It also lists Sherlock. Here is that part:
#4. The First Episode of Sherlock Predicts the Main Character's "Suicide"
The second season of the acclaimed BBC series Sherlock culminates in a rooftop confrontation between the genius scarf mannequin and his archnemesis, Moriarty, in which Sherlock is presented with a tough dilemma: kill himself or Moriarty's assassins will kill everyone he loves. He tries to persuade Moriarty to stop being such a dick and call off the hits, but Moriarty inconveniently shoots himself in the mouth (see: dick), leaving Sherlock with no choice but to leap to his death. OR DOES HE?
Spoiler for the next sentence: He doesn't.
Well, obviously he doesn't, because he appears alive and well at the end of the episode. Still, his faked suicide was the shocking plot twist that would keep viewers in suspense for the next two years, and it had apparently been in the works from the start.
Why We Should Have Seen It Coming:
Two people around Holmes actually told us Sherlock was going to die by his own hand, and they all did it in the very first episode. Doing her duty as a TV cop (that is, being antagonistic toward the brilliant outsider who always turns out to be right), Sergeant Sally Donovan says this early on in the episode:
"One day we'll be standing around a body and Sherlock Holmes will be the one who put it there."
She's convinced he's a psycho, and to Sally's credit, he is, but it's also true that at the end of Season 2 the police end up on the scene of a death Sherlock was responsible for -- his own.
Even more chillingly, the taxi driver who'd been responsible for all the murders throughout the first episode turns out to be a pawn in Moriarty's cat-and-mouse game with Sherlock, and even says this to the detective:
"I'm gonna talk to you, and then you're going to kill yourself."
By the end of the scene, it appears that Sherlock outwitted him and the man has been proven wrong, but two years and five episodes later, that's exactly what Sherlock does. Or appears to do -- Sherlock does such a good job of faking it that he even fooled the foreshadowing gods.
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So, do you think they actually were setting us up ahead of time? Or is someone reading way too much into it? Were there any other times you think they subtly hinted at plot twists? For that matter, what do you think of shows dropping plot hints?
http://www.cracked.com/article_20943_5-movies-tv-shows-with-brilliant-clues-in-dialogue.html
So, today’s article comes from Cracked.com. There is an article called 5 Movies and TV Shows with Brilliant Clues in the Dialogue. It lists things like Buffy and The Matrix. (See the above link to read the whole article.)
It also lists Sherlock. Here is that part:
#4. The First Episode of Sherlock Predicts the Main Character's "Suicide"
The second season of the acclaimed BBC series Sherlock culminates in a rooftop confrontation between the genius scarf mannequin and his archnemesis, Moriarty, in which Sherlock is presented with a tough dilemma: kill himself or Moriarty's assassins will kill everyone he loves. He tries to persuade Moriarty to stop being such a dick and call off the hits, but Moriarty inconveniently shoots himself in the mouth (see: dick), leaving Sherlock with no choice but to leap to his death. OR DOES HE?
Spoiler for the next sentence: He doesn't.
Well, obviously he doesn't, because he appears alive and well at the end of the episode. Still, his faked suicide was the shocking plot twist that would keep viewers in suspense for the next two years, and it had apparently been in the works from the start.
Why We Should Have Seen It Coming:
Two people around Holmes actually told us Sherlock was going to die by his own hand, and they all did it in the very first episode. Doing her duty as a TV cop (that is, being antagonistic toward the brilliant outsider who always turns out to be right), Sergeant Sally Donovan says this early on in the episode:
"One day we'll be standing around a body and Sherlock Holmes will be the one who put it there."
She's convinced he's a psycho, and to Sally's credit, he is, but it's also true that at the end of Season 2 the police end up on the scene of a death Sherlock was responsible for -- his own.
Even more chillingly, the taxi driver who'd been responsible for all the murders throughout the first episode turns out to be a pawn in Moriarty's cat-and-mouse game with Sherlock, and even says this to the detective:
"I'm gonna talk to you, and then you're going to kill yourself."
By the end of the scene, it appears that Sherlock outwitted him and the man has been proven wrong, but two years and five episodes later, that's exactly what Sherlock does. Or appears to do -- Sherlock does such a good job of faking it that he even fooled the foreshadowing gods.
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So, do you think they actually were setting us up ahead of time? Or is someone reading way too much into it? Were there any other times you think they subtly hinted at plot twists? For that matter, what do you think of shows dropping plot hints?
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