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[bluflamingo]

Starting up a run of at least three posts coming this evening:

Why do my chocolate buttons taste of mint? That's disappointing.

Also

So, in the first episode of Sherlock, he and John meet at 221B Baker Street at 7pm.

LeStrade shows up, Sherlock and John head over to Brixton in a taxi, during which time it goes dark, do their investigation thing, call it 8pm by the time they leave.

Then John meets up with Mycroft, goes back to Baker Street, they make the call to the victim's phone and go down to the resturant where John has dinner. By now I'm thinking it's at least 9.30, probably more like 10.

By the time they've gone back and forth with the police, Skerlock's gone off with the cabbie, and John's killed the cabbie, it's got to be somewhere around midnight.

So (a) I've worked at universities, schools and colleges, I would be completely stunned if the cleaners at whatever it was community college are in at midnight (more like first thing in the morning and (b) what's Sherlock doing suggesting dinner at midnight, and why is John starving when he already had dinner at, you know, dinner time?

At least Sherlock pointed out that the Chinese place stays open till 2, I guess.



Also, it's so going to rain when I just spent 15 minutes watering my plants. I knew I shouldn't have bothered!

Comments

[scrollgirl]

Heh. You know, I never would have thought about all these details! It did feel longer than the just one night, didn't it? So much action crammed into a few hours.

Also, it's so going to rain when I just spent 15 minutes watering my plants. I knew I shouldn't have bothered!

Isn't that always the case? And just when you've washed your car too.

[bluflamingo]

You know, I never would have thought about all these details!

I don't know why I started, to be honest - it didn't hit me the first couple of times I saw it.

Isn't that always the case?

Yeah, and also the moment you hang the washing out and go out. The weather lives to spite us.

[cobweb_diamond]

Also the fact that in the time it took to get a taxi from Baker Street to brixton, it went from completely light outside to completely dark. OK, they are in a car, but no way would it take that long! That's a 20 minute tube journey!

[bluflamingo]

Also that, yeah. I was rationalising that it sometimes goes dark very quickly in Autumn, which I'm guessing it must be, but, yeah. Or they had another crap cabbie who went all round the houses, maybe?

[cobweb_diamond]

black cabs are meant to be all perfect and efficient though. that's why i can't afford them and have to brave night buses full of lunatics and drunks. ;)

i found it odd when sherlock was all, "you're wasted as a cabbie" and, "so you're a real genius as well, then?" because hello, everyone knows that london cab drivers, especially the older ones who were working long before the existence of satnav, are phenomenally smart. hasn't there been more than one london cabbie winning major TV quiz shows because their memories are ttly over-the-top perfect from years of memorising The Knowledge? oh well.

[bluflamingo]

because hello, everyone knows that london cab drivers, especially the older ones who were working long before the existence of satnav, are phenomenally smart

Maybe he's used to cabs from other cities - I got in one the other week to go from the station to my parents house (he didn't know that's who was there, I just gave the road) and he asked me how to get there! That's usually the reason I'm getting a cab - I don't know how to get there!

[cobweb_diamond]

man, i am just nitpicking irrationally at this point... i loved the episode to bits, and i love stephen moffatt. but i am pretty sure he lives in london.

man, really? that sucks. if a cab driver asked me for directions, i'd be screwed. i don't know anything about how roads work from anything other than the perspective of a pedestrian. ;)

[bluflamingo]

I loved the episode the first time I watched it (Watson's attempt to reassure Holmes that it was fine if he was gay was perfectly 'awkward ex-military straight guy who genuinely is fine with it') but the more I think about it, the more things bug me.

if a cab driver asked me for directions, i'd be screwed

Yeah, I wasn't impressed - I'd love to know what he'd have done if I'd said I didn't have a clue!

[skieswideopen]

Maybe he's used to cabs from other cities - I got in one the other week to go from the station to my parents house (he didn't know that's who was there, I just gave the road) and he asked me how to get there!

Oh god, yes. That's how I missed the train from Oxford that I had planned to take when coming to see you--the cabbie couldn't find my friend's house to pick me up! He called for directions! Which my friends couldn't really give. (Okay, yes, it was only the cabbie's second week on the job. But GPS!)

[bluflamingo]

But GPS!

Yes! I can't find my way around most of Bristol to save my life, but that's why I bought a GPS unit the same week I bought my car!

[carolyn_claire]

You just reminded me to go turn off the hose--thanks. *g*

[bluflamingo]

Glad to be of use :)