Sherlock Holmes and Land Wars in Asia

[andraste]

I watched the first episode of Sherlock with friends today, and enjoyed it.

However, one thing that bemused me is that Sherlock has never seen The Princess Bride! This in itself is entirely plausible, since his interest in eighties fantasy romances strikes me as limited. However, I was surprised that he at no point suggested the solution to the pill problem that is blindingly obvious to anyone who has watched it. Possibly that scene is more tense if you don't spend the whole time thinking of the Dread Pirate Roberts.

What surprised me even more is that the friend I watched it with said she hadn't seen anyone in Sherlock fandom discussing the parallel!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As a former frequenter of alternatehistory.com I can assure you that the most headache-retardant solution is to presume that a remarkably similar author wrote a remarkably similar story in ATL which all of the characters happen not to know about, but which was able to fill the causal gap up to the OTL reference.

... Which is still not a very headache-retardant solution :(