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Sherlock Holmes

I was stopped in the middle of the street today by a lovely lady who wanted to introduce herself and tell me she read my blog. See, I really am famous. Tomorrow there’ll be paparazzi camping outside my front door hoping to get a photo of me tripping and flashing my knickers as I fall down the front steps. I’m sure it’ll happen. The tripping part, that is. The paparazzi thing is probably unlikely.

We’re up to Series 3 of Sherlock now and I give it 10/10. It’s one of the best tv series I’ve seen. There are a few unbelievable bits though, I will admit. Like how he breaks computer passwords because the characters have chosen silly passwords that are easy to guess. Who does that? No-one should do that and if your passwords are English words that are easy to guess then change them. Change them now. Stop reading my blog and do it.

The jumping off the building bit at the end of Series 2 was a bit unbelievable too. Apparently Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes in his short story, The Final Problem. Sherlock and Moriarty are fighting at Reichenbach Falls and both plunge to their deaths. Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to stop writing about Sherlock to focus on what he felt was more serious writing. However fans were so dismayed by Sherlock’s death that he eventually conceded and brought him back to life in The Adventure of the Empty House

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Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty fighting to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls
1893 illustration by Sidney Paget
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Problem

I really like Molly in the show. She’s vulnerable and a bit insecure but very likable. Here’s a funny scene with her from the first series.

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11 responses to “Sherlock Holmes”

  1. Denise Avatar
    Denise

    So brilliantly done isn’t it? And atmospheric and with a lovely sense of humour. Isabel enjoyed going to the Sherlock Museum in Baker Street at Xmas two years ago. We followed Tripadvisor advice and browsed the shop instead of going right inside the museum and that’s a satisfying experience in itself.
    Glad you are famous. You deserve to be.

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Oh I’m definitely going to visit the Sherlock Museum in Baker St now. That’ll be the top of my list next time I’m in London.

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  2. Victor Venema Avatar
    Victor Venema

    You might be a liberal and trust your fellow man too much. The most common passwords in 2015.
    http://www.computerworld.com/article/3024404/security/worst-most-common-passwords-for-the-last-5-years.html

    123456
    password
    12345678
    qwerty
    12345
    123456789
    football
    1234
    1234567
    baseball
    welcome
    1234567890
    abc123
    111111
    1qaz2wsx
    dragon
    master
    monkey
    letmein
    login

    Using the top 10 passwords, a hacker could, on average, guess 16 out of 1,000 passwords.
    http://wpengine.com/unmasked/

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      I’m not surprised to see that. I work in IT support and will occasionally have users send me their login details so I can fix something for them and I’ve seen users choose something like this for the combination:
      username: Scott
      password: Scott
      And their name is Scott 🙂

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  3. Jonathan Avatar
    Jonathan

    I was once called out about my blog – while sitting at a dinner table in street cafe on the other side of the world – a guy sat down opposite me, and said “so… I’ve been reading your blog”… I nearly fell off my chair 🙂

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      It’s such a big world and yet, so small.

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      1. Katha Avatar
        Katha

        I was also really surprised, because I am in Aberdeen for only four days and what would be the chance to see you. And what I really wanted to tell you, that I really like your blog, but couldn’t because of fangirl nervousness ;).

      2. Rachel M Avatar
        Rachel M

        I’m so glad you said hi! It was great to meet you and I hope you enjoyed your visit to Aberdeen 🙂

  4. guthrie Avatar
    guthrie

    Don’t bother with the episode/ christmas special one that came out a year or two ago, it was pointless fan wank. The earlier series, although I didn’t watch them all, were quite good, in the way they updated things and took advantage of modern history.

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    1. Rachel M Avatar
      Rachel M

      Don’t bother with the episode/ christmas special one that came out a year or two ago, it was pointless fan wank.

      Ok, but I’ll probably be unable to resist and watch it anyway.

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      1. guthrie Avatar
        guthrie

        My friends and I, who had watched previous specials and episodes and generally enjoyed them, didn’t really have anything to say about it, it was that self referential, inward facing and basically like a writer writing to make themselves look amazing, to show off what they could do, and fuck the audience.

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