So I finally ended up watching Sherlock. It was every bit as good as I’ve heard.

The question of how Holmes survived the fall at the end: I’m sure everybody has already come up with answer by now. This is just my own thoughts on the matter. I have been up all night (it is now nearly 6:30AM) thinking about this. OTL

There are 3 possibilites, as I see it:

1. He died, he jumped off the roof and fell 4+ stories onto concrete.
2. He jumped, but somehow survived the fall.
3. He did not jump, someone else fell from the roof and was found on the ground below.

We know Holmes did survive, the only question is to how; That rules out no #1. It certainly looked like Holmes falling, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I will assume that #3 is false and that it was Holmes who jumped.

Some odd question about what occurred after Holmes jumped:

1. Why did Watson get knocked over by a bicycle rider? (who was possibly following lines on the ground – perhaps chalk – you can see them if you look closely)
2. How did such a large crowd gather so quickly and why did they prevent Watson from checking to see whether Holmes was alive or not (they prevented him from checking his pulse)
3. How and why did paramedics arrive so quickly?
4. Why was a garbage truck (?) parked in front of a bus stop? (you can see the stop itself and the text on the road clearly marking the zone) and why did it pull away right after the body hit the ground? (surely the driver would have seen him fall or at least hit the ground)
5. Why is the body on its side (in something like the recovery position, no less) when Holmes fell face-first from the roof?
6. One the subject of the body, why does the blood pool near its head appear to spray out towards the road?

There is, of course, at least one other question: What did Holmes ask of Molly?

I make no attempt to conclusively answer these questions, it is, after all, 6:30AM and I have been up all night, unable to sleep. Perhaps now I will be able to sleep.