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Moriarty’s CM is a apple with a bite out of it, a ref to the the S2 finale episode of Sherlock.
See below, I think the best answer is that it represents the smiley face (here a pony one) that Sherlock painted on the wall of 221B, but how that exactly relates to Watson, I’m not sure otherwise.
It’s a reference to the bitten apple Moriarty leaves in 221B saying ‘I O U’
It’s off the Reichenback Fall S2 E3
*Ding
Hey, we British aren’t half as bad as gravity falls when it comes to waiting, I a wait between seasons is understandable but a wait this long between episodes, no
@Masem
This is all true.
But I still need moar. :c
@TheOtakuX
The episodes are also very dense and may take multiple watchings to catch/understand everything (A carryover from Moffat’s time at Doctor Who)
Yeah, but they’re each 90 minutes long. So it’s more like 6 movies. Well, 9. Because there’s 3 seasons of 3 episodes each.
Stupid british television…
Since it was mentioned earlier, the actual reference comes from a collection of short stories, the last of which, His Last Bow, contains the following exchange between Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
“But you have retired, Holmes. We heard of you as living the life of a hermit among your bees and your books in a small farm upon the South Downs.”
“Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my latter years!” He picked up the volume from the table and read out the whole title, Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen. “Alone I did it. Behold the fruit of pensive nights and laborious days when I watched the little working gangs as once I watched the criminal world of London.”
To be fair, the majority of Canterlot’s population are unicorns.
Not Fetlock Holmes?
Maybe that’s the inspiration?
Can’t believe how well they captured Sherlock in the form of a pony.
The doofy-looking smiley face just makes me think of the Watson dichotomy.
Yeah, I’ve only read The Red-Headed League and The Hound of the Baskervilles, plus at some point some teacher assigned The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. Everything else I know is from parodies and homages.
To add, the only thing that I can come up with is that smiley face on the wall of 221B in the BBC show
Yes, it’s clearly that. But I don’t know what exactly that’s in reference to (compared to the bee or apple)
It’s how things are these days. I haven’t READ them myself, but I’m in the process of reading them. I did start reading the books before I watched the show, though.