{"id":201464,"date":"2014-07-15T10:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/15\/deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T09:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T09:09:18","slug":"deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/15\/deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-201464 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/15\/deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts\/attachment\/201465\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/15\/deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts\/attachment\/201466\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n840v9Tenm1ts5583o2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deducingbbcsherlock.tumblr.com\/post\/90605828129\/this-is-what-mycrofts-looking-at-when-lestrade\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">deducingbbcsherlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is what Mycroft\u2019s looking at when Lestrade comes to ask him about the bolt holes. I know it\u2019s hard to read, but he\u2019s using it to track someone. A couple of things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1. Codename UGLY DUCKLING? Rubbish big brother, honestly. Except\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2. Hope I\u2019m not about to embarrass myself geography-wise, but that doesn\u2019t look like London\u2026or England. In fact, it kinda looks like\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"irc_mil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.topnews.in\/law\/region\/poland?page=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"irc_mi\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/topnews.in\/law\/files\/warsaw-poland-map.jpg\" width=\"434\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. It says \u201ctracking\u201d and the \u201cugly duckling\u2019s\u201d position is clearly marked, yet Mycroft just tells Lestrade a few more bolt holes to check out and does not give an exact location, then casually dismisses him as if he has bigger things to worry about than his recently-shot little brother\u2019s hospital escape (which we all know isn\u2019t quite true).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that really is somewhere around Warsaw \u2013 or just anywhere outside of London \u2013 well\u2026Sherlock isn\u2019t who Mycroft\u2019s tracking here. So who is it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ugly_Duckling\" target=\"_blank\">Ugly Duckling<\/a>\u2026well, that\u2019s a famous fairy tale. And we all know who loves fairy tales. <strong>Is Mycroft tracking Jim?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively\u2026it\u2019s the story of a duckling who is <em>rejected by its family<\/em> and eventually finds acceptance with the beautiful swans.\u00a0<strong>Is Mycroft tracking the other one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One more option \u2013 canonically, <a href=\"http:\/\/bakerstreet.wikia.com\/wiki\/Warsaw\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Adler was the Prima Donna of the Warsaw Imperial Opera<\/a>, and in this retelling we know she\u2019s in witness protection.\u00a0<strong>Is Mycroft tracking Irene?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deducingbbcsherlock: This is what Mycroft\u2019s looking at when Lestrade comes to ask him about the bolt holes. I know it\u2019s hard to read, but he\u2019s using it to track someone. A couple of things\u2026 1. Codename UGLY DUCKLING? Rubbish big brother, honestly. Except\u2026 2. Hope I\u2019m not about to embarrass myself geography-wise, but that doesn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/15\/deducingbbcsherlock-this-is-what-mycrofts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17794,217,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201467,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201464\/revisions\/201467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}