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The Secret Message in the Closing Credits of Sherlock

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Series 3 of <i>Sherlock</i> concluded on PBS last night (in most markets), with "His Last Vow." We won't offer any spoilers here, for the sake of those who have yet to fire up their DVRs or whose affiliate stations haven't yet run it.</div>
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But for those who tuned into the January 19th premiere of the series on <b><i>Masterpiece</i></b> were provided with a great puzzle during the end credits, courtesy of show-runners Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt.</div>
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Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMPBbfFT9c" target="_blank">this video</a> and observe:<div><br />
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<br />The letters spell out W-E-N-G-C-H-I-A-N-G.</div><div><br /></div><div>Or, Weng-Chiang, for those of you familiar with the Whovian universe. Which is from "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talons_of_Weng-Chiang" target="_blank">The Talons of Weng-Chiang</a>," a six-part series in Season 14 of <i>Doctor Who</i>, in which we find Tom Baker dressed as Sherlock Holmes.</div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhBMQVAnH_bSmSRA8IuhUl8rC6EYMVBqEw5J-ka92jbwJiR9pbSeTOxJLPhMGnA891YBPRmBYXb-amtPYPT7CoISsyqoNfJkVNmrm6e29SU3cOge-sLzatpai7XHjaDxALhtSIuXliSxY9-_w-Es24iTj-dcAQAL_B1giFJRXW7pnD7IXYpyUjJyho7w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhBMQVAnH_bSmSRA8IuhUl8rC6EYMVBqEw5J-ka92jbwJiR9pbSeTOxJLPhMGnA891YBPRmBYXb-amtPYPT7CoISsyqoNfJkVNmrm6e29SU3cOge-sLzatpai7XHjaDxALhtSIuXliSxY9-_w-Es24iTj-dcAQAL_B1giFJRXW7pnD7IXYpyUjJyho7w=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Screenshot taken from an optical disc, television broadcast, web page, computer software or streaming media broadcast. Copyright holder: BBC, Fair use, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14411153" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div>
How's that for all of you Whovians out there?<br />
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We've written before about some curious connections between Sherlock Holmes and the Doctor. On of them is that after leaving <i>Doctor Who</i> in 1980, Tom Baker appeared as Sherlock Holmes in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL975NjlGoHlQINaFJIWAkz3kxzdrqVvsU">adaptation of </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL975NjlGoHlQINaFJIWAkz3kxzdrqVvsU"><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></a>. Thankfully, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL975NjlGoHlQINaFJIWAkz3kxzdrqVvsU">you can watch this adaptation via YouTube.</a></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL975NjlGoHlQINaFJIWAkz3kxzdrqVvsU"></a><br />
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Also, for more information about Talons of Weng-Chiang, please visit this <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/09/under-influence-houn_17.html#.UuwHxXYsVcc">earlier post</a> as well as <a href="http://comicrelated.com/news/12770/talons-of-weng-chiang">this more in-depth review</a>. (And please be sure to check out the Special Edition DVD, which contains numerous documentaries about the Victorian era, and are worth watching on their own)<br />
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The Secret Message in the Closing Credits of Sherlock

"these characters convey a message" [DANC] Series 3 of Sherlock concluded on PBS last night (in most markets), with ...

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What Is It That We Love in Sherlock Holmes?

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The benefit of living in the midst of a Sherlockian renaissance is that we have so much material at our fingertips. Of course, the detriment is that we have so much material at our fingertips.<br />
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With the rise in television programs, movies, books, games and other media entities dedicated to Sherlock Holmes, the commentary and punditry has risen concurrently. And because Sherlock Holmes is a figure deeply rooted in popular culture and history, everyone thinks he knows the character. While we're willing to begrudge the occasional swipe, at times it's difficult for those of us who have intimate knowledge of Holmes - indeed, those of us who have read the Canon multiple times, studied the stories and their characters, and even written scholarly papers on them - to accept the superficial criticism or commentary by those who simply are not quite as informed.<br />
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Recently, Esquire ran a piece titled "<a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/why-we-love-sherlock?%3Fsrc=rss" target="_blank">Why We Love Sherlock</a>" by Stephen Marche (<a href="http://twitter.com/StephenMarche" target="_blank">@StephenMarche</a>). The subtitle ("(Hint: we're all a little nuts)") should have given it away, but we read along anyway, thinking that there would be some insightful and universal truth that we could relate to. Instead, we were treated to a shallow analysis of the the character, whom Marche calls a "flat" character (as opposed to a "round" character) - one that is incapable of surprising us.<br />
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As you can imagine, our faithful fans on Facebook took issue with that:<br />
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Marche spends most of his time on the three screen versions of Sherlock Holmes currently in the public's psyche, because evidently the public isn't capable of thinking beyond entertainment media. And even so, Elementary and the Ritchie films are respectively dismissed as nothing more than a branding exercise and an excuse for slow-motion action sequences. As to the BBC Holmes: he is summed up as a "basement-dwelling asshole genius" who knows how to wield technology. In an effort to spare you the need to read the entire article, Marche's final sentence sums up exactly why he thinks we love Sherlock Holmes - or at least the Holmes of the screen right now:<br />
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...we are, in turn, branding whores, rampantly violent, and trapped in a technologically enabled loneliness."</blockquote>
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Perhaps we have a more romantic notion of why Sherlock Holmes fascinates us. Ours is one that harkens back to the early days of the Baker Street Irregulars and the <i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i>. For it is none other than Edgar W. Smith, BSI who penned "The Implicit Holmes" for the April 1946 edition of the <i>BSJ</i> (Vol. 1, No. 2) that in our view so rightly summed up then - and now - why we're so taken with this unique consulting detective.<br />
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For those among us who appreciate the Canon as a textbook of friendship, who can see the glimmers of humanity that occasionally pop from Holmes, who can discern between a series of well-told stories versus a litany of cryptograms, and who are able to dig deeper into the human psyche than the likes of a TV Guide analysis, we can brush aside the amusing ignorance of those who think they know Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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We prefer the eloquence of Smith and his willingness to think highly of his readers rather than Marche's lowest common denominator approach in <i>Esquire</i>.<br />
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[<b><i>Editor's note:</i></b> If you're interested in reading more of Smith's editorials or in seeing the deep scholarship and analysis that Sherlockians have been pursuing for nearly 70 years, <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/ebooks/ebsj.html" target="_blank">the eBSJ</a> puts all of the back issues from 1946-2011 available at your fingertips.]<br />
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What Is It That We Love in Sherlock Holmes?

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This Threadless Sherlock Holmes T-Shirt Contest Is Cool

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<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadless">Threadless</a>, an online artists' community based in Chicago, is well known for their creative T-shirt designs, among other things. (My brother got me a Threadless T-shirt a couple years ago, and I love it!) You can peruse some of <a href="http://www.threadless.com/" target="_blank">their many designs at their website</a>.<div>
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If you are of an artistic bent and a Sherlockian, or if you've just always dreamed of having your own graphic design on a T-shirt, then take a look at the <a href="http://www.threadless.com/sherlockholmes/" target="_blank">contest that's being hosted by Threadless</a>.<br /></div>
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<b>The Assignment</b>: to design a T-shirt based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous character.  The people at Threadless want to remind you: "this challenge is about the original novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. No actor likenesses will be accepted."  Perfect, right?  Sidney Paget, Frederic Dorr Steele...& [insert your name here].  This is your chance to have your own artistic portrayal of Sherlock Holmes go down in history.<br /><br />Possible prizes you could win are: <br /><ul>
<li>$2,000 cash </li>
<li>$500 Threadless cash </li>
<li>1st Edition of <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i></li>
<li>$100 Kindle gift card to read more mystery novels </li>
<li>Crime-solving kit including a magnifying glass, decoder ring and more (valued at $100) </li>
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<br />The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2014, so...quick, Watson!  To the drawing pad! And if you're not one for creating your own design, there are currently <a href="http://www.threadless.com/sherlockholmes/submissions/" target="_blank">90 submissions to sort through and vote on</a>. Here are just a few - some of which have some very specific Canonical connections.</div>
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As it says on the <a href="http://www.threadless.com/sherlockholmes/">Sherlock Holmes T-Shirt Contest page</a>: "So, to crack the case of the perfect tee, read between the lines! It's elemen-tee, my dear, Watson."  The game is afoot...or in this case, a torso.<br /><br />And if you happen to be <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/12/episode-16-collectors-corner-jerry.html#.Uum9W8RDuSp" target="_blank">Jerry Margolin</a>, we imagine there's a treasure trove of artists and original art to pursue.</div>
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by Cory Howell

The Original Empty House: Mind the Gap

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We all know that Sherlock Holmes made his return from the Reichenbach when he appeared in "The Adventure of the Empty House," the first of the short stories that make up the collection <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i>.<br />
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Upon his return, he enlisted Watson's help to track and capture the murderer of the Hon. Ronald Adair. The path that the duo took to stake out their prey led through through byways and passages, a network of mews and stables and to a small road that contained the empty house to which the title of the story alludes:<br />
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"Do you know where we are?" he whispered.<br />'Surely that is Baker Street," I answered, staring through the dim window.<br />"Exactly. We are in Camden House, which stands opposite to our own old quarters."</blockquote>
But of particular interest is the true <a href="http://nowiknow.com/open-house/" target="_blank">empty house of London</a>. If you happen to find yourself in Bayswater, London, you'll have the opportunity to visit numbers 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens. But don't expect to be admitted - or for anyone to even answer the door. There's no one home.<br />
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The reason is that 23 Leinster Gardens is truly an empty house; or rather just the facade of a house. If you check out the extensive photos on <a href="http://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2012/09/08/48-the-houses-in-leinster-gardens/" target="_blank">150 great things about the Underground</a>, you'll see that Nos. 23 & 24 were never built as houses. Rather, the Metropolitan Railway was built (now the District and Circle Lines of th eUndergroun) needed some ventilation for its steam trains. So rather than leave an open railway in the midst of a residential area, facades of houses were built to match the rest of the neighborhood and the rear was left open.<br />
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But readers familiar with the Canon should recognize another familiar reference: that of "The Bruce-Partington Plans." You may recall that Sherlock Holmes determined that Arthur Cadogan West was murdered and then placed on the roof of a train. Of the active spies who would have been interested in the plans, only one lived in the proximity of a rail line:<br />
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"Yes, that was it. Mr. Hugo Oberstein, of 13, Caulfield Gardens, had become my objective. I began my operations at Gloucester Road Station, where a very helpful official walked with me along the track, and allowed me to satisfy myself not only that the back-stair windows of Caulfield Gardens open on the line, but the even more essential fact that, owing to the intersection of one of the larger railways, the Underground trains are frequently held motionless for some minutes at that very spot."</blockquote>
So, Leinster Gardens was replaced with Caulfield Gardens, and Bayswater became Kensington (just <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/preview/dir/Bayswater,+Greater+London,+UK/Kensington,+London+W8,+UK/@51.5066069,-0.1820656,15z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x4876054555ffefd3:0x261185c6bcdbd952!2m2!1d-0.183801!2d51.5134339!1m5!1m1!1s0x48760ff14b2d2cdf:0x6b2476638733787d!2m2!1d-0.1932952!2d51.5009945" target="_blank">on the opposite side of Kensington Garden</a>). Of course, there are no unfurnished empty rooms upstairs at Leinster Gardens...<br />
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<i>Image credits: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:22-23-leinster-gardens-facade-contrast.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a> and  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanh1/8616447539/" target="_blank">[Duncan] (Flickr)</a></i><br />
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