But Irene Adler is always about twelve steps ahead of Holmes when it comes to working with human emotion (especially Holmes's.)
Just popping in here to say, I really like this reading of things in particular. I had suggested that Sherlock thinks he has the solution at the end there, but I agree that Irene is always 12 steps ahead of him. Having rewatched that scene (um, a lot), I tend to think now that it calls back to the confrontation scene in "A Study in Pink": is it a bluff? A double bluff? A triple bluff? And that's the fun of it, because there are basically endless layers to try to get underneath, in terms of what games Irene is playing there.
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Just popping in here to say, I really like this reading of things in particular. I had suggested that Sherlock thinks he has the solution at the end there, but I agree that Irene is always 12 steps ahead of him. Having rewatched that scene (um, a lot), I tend to think now that it calls back to the confrontation scene in "A Study in Pink": is it a bluff? A double bluff? A triple bluff? And that's the fun of it, because there are basically endless layers to try to get underneath, in terms of what games Irene is playing there.