Surely Not Sherlock

There's been a lot of buzz around Sherlock and so, feeling a little left out, I watched all three episodes in one go. BBC i-player is fantastic when you can't sleep.

The fuss is well deserved.  It's perfectly written, updated to modern day Baker Street, without loosing any of the essence of the real Holmes.  Benedict Cummerbatch plays Sherlock as an aloof, slightly dysfunctional, a-sexual character who clearly has Aspergers and that just seems to make him even more attractive.  The floppy hair cut, nice shoes and great coat also help.   Whereas, Martin Freeman (who in my opinion is an enormously underrated actor) makes Watson just like the rest of us; muddling through every day life, making mistakes and being just occasionally brilliant. 

A Scandal in Belgravia was edge-of-the-seat-telly.  The story was so gripping there was no time to even think about working out what was going on.  It never occurred to me that the high-class call girl wasn't dead the first time but now that we know Sherlock saved her she must be involved in the final episode even if we didn't see her.  Maybe she's the person on the bike, although if she was I'm glad to think she was wearing a few more clothes. 

The Hounds of Baskerville was not quite as gripping or expertly written and gave me time to think about the solutions.  Quite early on I had worked out that Dr Frankland was the bad guy.  I didn't work out that it was caused by a hallucinogen in the fog.

The Reichenbach Fall episode was really clever.  Using the reference to Turner's Painting and making Moriarty's alias Richard Brook (a translation of Reichenbach from the German) and linking it all to Conan Doyle's The Final Problem was inspired.

But I think I am the only person on the planet who never believed that Sherlock fell.  I always thought it was brilliant misdirection.  Watson was pushed by the person on the bike at the moment of the jump, where I believe he was given the hallucinogen from the HOUND project (cue fuzzy pictures), this gave Holmes time to  put his clothes and ID on Moriarty and push him off.  When the body landed Watson saw what he expected to see - Holmes and so identified the body.  

Stephen Moffat (writer) is having great fun in the press, giving interviews and suggesting that everyone has missed the most important clue.  He says that no one has guessed the answer, either.

Surely my theory can't be right.  It can't be that simple, can it Sherlock?