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caffienekitty) wrote2010-12-19 09:05 am
caffienekitty) wrote2010-12-19 09:05 am
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Sherlock Meta: Lactose Issues of 221B
I noticed this a long while back and keep meaning to mention it. I might not be the first to point this out, but I haven't seen it mentioned before.
I think I've solved a very serious and epically perplexing mystery on the BBC series Sherlock. I do believe I have indeed. I think I have solved... THE MYSTERY OF THE MILK!
Dun dun dunnnnn! *gasp!*
I've seen all kinds of crazy theories and questions floated in fic and discussions about why 221b seems to always be out of milk. Reasons including milk baths, any experiment you can think of, stand-in for large quantities of blood in experiments involving the behaviour of proteins, and so on. (Really, it's just a running gag put in by the writers, but pft! Real world logic. *handwave*) However I think I have the real reason there's never any milk.
Everyone keeps wondering what Sherlock does with all the milk? Nothing. Sherlock has nothing to do with the reason they keep running out of milk.
To demonstrate, these caps are from the early scenes of A Study in Pink.
John awake in the middle of the night after a nightmare.
John in the morning with his tea-and-apple breakfast.
Do you see it?
Here, I'll brighten them and circle it.
The milk is out on the counter in the same position in both shots. There's no sign of John having a tea or a glass of milk in the post-nightmare shot, which would indicate that the milk has been left out since sometime before he went to sleep. It's still there in the morning after he's fixed his tea and gone to faff around for who knows how long with his laptop during breakfast, so it'll still be out a while yet.
THEREFORE, I believe the milk at 221b Baker Street is forever in short supply because Dr. John Watson tends to leave it on the counter overnight and it goes off faster.
I repeat: Dun dun dunnnnn! *gasp!*
AND! I even have an in-character theory for why he might do this! In field mess halls when milk is made available during a meal, the jugs are often put out on the mess tables by mess staff at the start of the meal and put away at the end. (Admittedly I'm basing that assumption on very limited experience.) John would be out of the habit of putting away the milk because of this and tend to just unconsciously leave it where it sits.
In short, John has a combat-zone-related dairy dysfunction. Post Traumatic Milk Disorder? Anyway, I think this calls for an "Aw, John." Poor guy.
I think I've solved a very serious and epically perplexing mystery on the BBC series Sherlock. I do believe I have indeed. I think I have solved... THE MYSTERY OF THE MILK!
Dun dun dunnnnn! *gasp!*
I've seen all kinds of crazy theories and questions floated in fic and discussions about why 221b seems to always be out of milk. Reasons including milk baths, any experiment you can think of, stand-in for large quantities of blood in experiments involving the behaviour of proteins, and so on. (Really, it's just a running gag put in by the writers, but pft! Real world logic. *handwave*) However I think I have the real reason there's never any milk.
Everyone keeps wondering what Sherlock does with all the milk? Nothing. Sherlock has nothing to do with the reason they keep running out of milk.
To demonstrate, these caps are from the early scenes of A Study in Pink.
John awake in the middle of the night after a nightmare.
John in the morning with his tea-and-apple breakfast.
Do you see it?
Here, I'll brighten them and circle it.
The milk is out on the counter in the same position in both shots. There's no sign of John having a tea or a glass of milk in the post-nightmare shot, which would indicate that the milk has been left out since sometime before he went to sleep. It's still there in the morning after he's fixed his tea and gone to faff around for who knows how long with his laptop during breakfast, so it'll still be out a while yet.
THEREFORE, I believe the milk at 221b Baker Street is forever in short supply because Dr. John Watson tends to leave it on the counter overnight and it goes off faster.
I repeat: Dun dun dunnnnn! *gasp!*
AND! I even have an in-character theory for why he might do this! In field mess halls when milk is made available during a meal, the jugs are often put out on the mess tables by mess staff at the start of the meal and put away at the end. (Admittedly I'm basing that assumption on very limited experience.) John would be out of the habit of putting away the milk because of this and tend to just unconsciously leave it where it sits.
In short, John has a combat-zone-related dairy dysfunction. Post Traumatic Milk Disorder? Anyway, I think this calls for an "Aw, John." Poor guy.