Sherlock clues.

HELLO SO I enjoyed the end of Sherlock as much as anyone and the chatter about it has been fun. I’ll confess last night I went a little bit mad and started picking up on some extremely tenuous links, and following them for miles and miles and so everything here is kinda batshit stupid. But it was fun to find some weird coincidences, and if nothing in here lines up then at least it’s a nice display of me having a mental breakdown.

1895 - Watson’s blog stat count is stuck on this number. While this date is relevant in the original Sherlock Holmes books, I wondered if the writers of modern-day Sherlock put more significance to it. In particular, if you look at the cases Sherlock was involved with in the original books, in 1895 there was ‘The Case Of Cardinal Tosca’.

Code - Tosca is a tragic opera, which features an aria about a “hidden harmony” between a painting and Tosca. The code between Moriarty and Sherlock turned out to be a hidden harmony, in fact it was Bach’s ’Partitas’ Number 1. Which is played in B flat. B is, of course, the flat Holmes lives in. 

Final act - Moriarty makes reference to ‘one final act’. In the final act of Tosca, the two lovers Cavaradossi and Tosca need to escape the chief of police. They hatch a plan that Cavaradossi will pretend to be executed, but the execution goes wrong and he actually dies (much to Tosca’s disbelief). Distraught, and vindicated in the death of the chief of police, Tosca then flees the authorities and runs to a parapet (or rooftop) and throws herself off.

 Think of Moriarty as Cavaradossi, and Sherlock as Tosca. 

IOU - Tosca is set in the middle of the war between France and Austria, where Austria loses. The IOU acronym which was hidden in the episode could be a reference to AEIOU, an Austrian symbol which used to be written on walls, and means ‘all the world is subject to Austria’ (as mentioned here). Incidentally, Irene Adler was from Austria.

Lastly, does this mean anything? Ambulances Only has been carefully shrunk down to ‘Am A Only’. AWS1 relates to american wireless services, specifically mobile phones.

22 Jan • 12 notes • ∞
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  1. mitchcorvus said: I see you’ve developed considerable deductive skills of your own Jamie!
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