Clearly, Not Enough Homework To Do...

I have descended to a new level of crazy. Bear with me here:

If you are a fan of Sherlock on the BBC, you have no doubt:

Watched the three episodes a dozen times each
Snorted derisively at Robert Downey Jr. fans who INSIST theirs is the only Sherlock to be had
At least taken a stab at the books, if you hadn’t read them before
Wondered speculatively where on earth you could get a riding crop, a fluffy jumper, or that COAT.

If you have no bloody clue what the hell I just talked about, it’s best you look away now and not spoil everything for yourself. And go watch Sherlock already.
Meanwhile, Series 2 is nearly, nearly here (two months away is nearly, oh yes it is) and I have been pondering, maybe a lot too much, on this. Spoilers in heaps below!
















SPOILERS SPOILERS SHERLOCK'S GENIUS SUCK IT ANDERSON WATSON'S AWESOME













(Thanks to the Daily Mail for this picture.)

Yes, that’s your favorite asocial detective after falling 70 feet off the roof of St. Barts. (This picture terrifies the living hell out of me, by the way.) The circumstances of the fall don’t really matter at this moment, what matters is THIS…


(Thanks so much to Cumberbatchweb for this poster.)

And yes, while this is an awesome poster that sends me into eddies of delight, LOOK AT SHERLOCK, besides the fact that he's sitting in John's chair (Union Jack pillow just visible behind him.)

Note the knuckles of his left hand. Bandages?

Note his chin. Something’s happened there.

And note the right side of his neck. That appears to be a scar, or at least a healing cut.

What befuddles me is that these aren’t injuries consistent with falling off of a building (broken bones, big open wounds that require lots of stitching, a bandage or two, and most telling, a lack of a bandage on his head where it's clear in the other photo he's bleeding from.)

I'm pulling a Sherlock here, and I'm going to say that these are injuries consistent not with someone who fell off a building, but someone who got into a nasty fight. The knuckles are broken open because he punched someone; the chin mark is from where they got him; the scar is obviously a cut that has been stitched closed, or a stab wound. It’s way too straight to be anything else.

I don't know what episode the second picture hails from (first one is from Scandal), so I can't tell you if his big fight comes before or after he makes too close of buddies with the ground outside Bart's. Since the Scandal ep is listed second at the moment, I'd say this might be from the first or the third episode, because he's going to spend most of the second one healing from you know, FALLING OFF A BUILDING. He's probably going to be in no condition to fight anyone.

So, we have Sherlock getting into one hell of a fight, falling off a building and winding up on a stretcher, and conceivably going over a waterfall with his archenemy and disappearing into the mist. All I can think is, Dear God, they are banging him about this year. Last year, they choked him twice in the same episode and then he was almost smothered in the next, but clearly the ante has been upped.