SPINNING THE PLATES
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Some musings on the short cases at the beginning of TST
Had no idea how interesting and amusing it would be to take a closer look at them. Each one is a little treasure on its own.
Dusty Death _______________________________________
I won’t name the client out of respect but she came to us because of her late husband. His body was recovered from the sea near Falmouth …
FEMALE CLIENT: He drowned, Mr Holmes. That’s what we thought but when they opened up his lungs … sand.
SHERLOCK: Superficial.
Drowned? What immediately comes to mind when I hear that word is … Carl Powers, Redbeard, Victor, John. But also Sherlock himself. Ajay pushes him under water in TST. Jim wants ‘to go over the fall’ together with Sherlock. There is the maths professor who got pushed over a waterfall in TAB. ‘Deep Waters …. all your life, Sherlock’ …. indeed. (On drowning and suffocating)
The question though is …. what does Sherlock mean by 'superficial’? The water or the sand? Maybe both? Did that man die for some other reason?
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The other cases are under the cut …..
As usual, this is an amazing meta, @ebaeschnbliah. I hadn’t really taken time to ponder all of these cases, so wow! The Yellow Canary Dragon connection is amazing!
Also, reading this, I went back and watched the scenes in real time and I’m amazed by this:
Each case as it’s being written up show’s Sherlock typing away on his phone. I know we know he’s been Tweeting, but the way they show this, makes it truly seem as if he is writing up the cases- except for the one we can see is fake. Which, is sooo interesting in light of the question over just why no one knows it’s John’s blog anymore.