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Subject: Re: Sherlock and Daughter "The Challenge" "The Common Thread
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On 2025-04-27 12:47 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
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> It's not awful. David Thewlis is much better than the material. Alas,
> Blu Hunt is not.
> 
> Need a ruling here: If you grew up in the suburbs, can you truly claim
> your native heritage? Her hair is gorgeous. She was 28 during production
> and looks much much younger.
> 
> My complaint about the Amelia character is that she's barely
> investigating. She's largely following instinct, then encounters
> something by coincidence that advances the plot. She's a plot device,
> not a character. In fact, Sherlock said so in a line of dialogue.
> 
> The writers are lazy.
> 
> Nice to see Ivana Milicevic again. I miss her (slightly covered) nude
> scenes in Banshee. Her body was lithe and tight thanks to all the fight
> training she had.
> 
> Did I miss an explanation for how the hell Clara met Charlie? Also, if
> her father went bust in a railroad scandal (it's two decades too late to
> have been Jay Gould and the Erie scandal, and if this is 1898, it's too
> late for the Panic of 1893 which sunk a lot of railroad stock), there's
> no fucking way he'd be ambassador as he'd be subject to foreign
> influence.
> 
> I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of a chop shop for
> carriages, but can't. There's pretty much as much labor involved in
> chopping them up and re-assembling them as there would be in building
> new carriages.
> 
> Why has Amelia failed to tell Sherlock of her two encounters with the
> bobbie on patrol? Obviously he tipped off the crooks. Hell, he's
> watching Sherlock's house.
> 
> The size of the house bothers the hell out of me. It's a great house,
> and I guess we're supposed to think Belgravia except the house facades
> being used in Dublin are from a century earlier, 1760s. The whole thing
> is illusion. The real street is much narrower. She's crossing a 60 foot
> wide earthen street on tv, then in a separate shot, we see the facade of
> the houses, so I assume there's an outdoor set with the muddy street.
> 
> Sherlock was comfortable (he certainly didn't overspend on lodging) but not
> wealthy, and could not possibly afford the lease on such a house. 

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I *know* I've read passages in novels 
about people from very humble backgrounds who received an inheritance 
that seems impossibly small to us - like five pounds - who were able to 
lease property in Belgravia as a result and still have money left over 
for food, servants and the like.

We've had so much inflation in the intervening years that it's 
practically impossible to imagine 5 pounds going that far but apparently 
it did. (Or maybe the novels were not accurate on that detail.)

I wish I could remember the novel(s) where I read that....

> Sherlock
> never had servants. Since when do servants question their employer? And
> the kidnapped Mrs. Hudson is also a servant?
> 

You have to remember that servants were dirt cheap in those days. I 
remember reading that censuses from around 1900 defined working class as 
having only two or fewer servants, with the middle class beginning at 3 
servants. Of course almost everyone was agricultural in those days so 
the two servants would have been the hired man and his wife (if he were 
married).

Karl Marx was notorious for mooching money off his friends, especially 
his co-author Friedrich Engels (the son of a wealthy factory owner), 
because he was constantly in debt yet even Marx had a couple of servants 
to help his wife and tend himself and his family.

> I guess I'll stick with it; it's just 8 episodes.


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Rhino