Mental world / Sherlock

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First of all, please take a look at THIS and sign it if you want to help.

Now on to something fun I found on tumblr:

Patrick Jane from The Mentalist basically poses a theory on how Sherlock could have survived (and whoever made this parallel is awesome)

Small ball

It's pretty neat, plus different from a few other theories - even if it is just still speculation

Comments

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

Yes! I jumped up from the couch and ran to my computer and typed that theory up in the middle of the episode. Haha!

In fact, I consider it to be the sure explanation. Not a theory. (Yes, I am that arrogant. :-P)

To me the most awesome part is that Jane IS the American version of Sherlock Holmes, and that the episode airing 4 days after TRF should have the explanation is the best coincidence of all time. :-P

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You are a genius ;) It would certainly explain the ball wouldn't it? It's such a small and insignificant detail, and it is very like Moffat to make something like that so important.

Lol, the american-version of Sherlock with a slightly more humane side! Of course, when I say 'slightly' I mean something more akin to 'hugely'. But yes, he is :)

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

:-P Well the thing was, remember Moffat said on Thursday that the clue to Sherlock's death was in an OOC behavior and no one picked up on it. So I said right away, well, it's the Steve McQueen moment. (That bothered me from my first viewing... and after he said it it also occurred to me that they focus on the ball when Sherlock sees John's hand tapping, to throw you off -- like you think it's about the tapping, but it's really about the ball.) Anyway, I was convinced it had to do with the rubber ball, especially as that looked like a magic trick tool. (And Sherlock says "it's just a magic trick" to John on the phone.) Then when a few hours later Jane explained what one can do with a ball... and it explains why John doesn't feel a pulse... Like I said, there is no question in my mind that is what happened. I haven't bothered to read any other theories, unless they were right there, un-lj-cut on my flist. Partly because I don't care, and partly because I'm satisfied until next season. :-) Also, this may be the only time I've ever figured something like that out, so I'm really excited.

Re: Jane... I'm not sure that he's much more humane. He's more likely to turn on the charm than Sherlock is, but they're both ultimately manipulating almost 24/7. And Jane can be just as abrasive. I think he subscribes to the you catch more flies with honey theory. But yeah... they're both so in touch with human emotion on the I CAN USE THIS side of things, but often so out of touch otherwise. And both have hidden depths of emotion, but they try to mask them as much as possible. Yeah, Jane is coming around more... but then we're in the fourth season of The Mentalist and only the second of Sherlock.

[keep-counting.livejournal.com]

It is an awesome theory, and very well-spotted. There is one other that I think is very likely as well (I've posted about it yesterday I think), but it's 50/50 for me on the two, and with the Mentalist-thing right after... my little fangirl-heart would be forever happy :)

Hmm, I guess I meant more in that a lot of Jane's motivation is the death of his family. Jane has loved, deeply, and still cares, I think, whereas Sherlock was sociopathic for many years. In the first season, he didn't percieve Lestrade or Mrs Hudson or maybe even John as a 'real friend', but in Reichenbach he clearly does. So I would say that Jane is more 'normal' in terms of sentiment and human relations and at least learned about that long before the start of the series, through his wife and daugther. The Mentalist is in a way about Jane finding the man who 'killed' his humanity (Red John) while Sherlock is about our main character finding that humanity to begin with. I don't really see Jane as out-of-touch in the 'don't understand' way, more in the 'I don't want this' way, while Sherlock seems much more baffled about some human emotions. But as you said, Sherlock has a long way to go yet ;)