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Loved it but huge Problem..

posted 13 years ago by eqgmrdbz
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After thinking it over, (should of been obvious after i saw it)

The whole premise of the movie ends up being the remote control device, Moriarty wanted it, the Order worked hard to make it, and build a machine around it. So the big problem is, there was no need for it, in the end we see goons of Blackwood around the machine, why couldn't any of them turn the machine on, i believe during this time they had pocket watches, they just had to coordinate with Blackwood. If the remote control was not necessary, then Moriarty would also not be involved, and well that's a big chunk of the movie there, seeing as he is Sherlock's nemesis. The writers could of written the need for the remote better.

Waiting for the sequel

[–] thewood 13 years ago

yeah i mean ... to change
channels for instance duh
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[–] zap644 13 years ago

You believe they had pocket watches?

You mean like the one Holmes too off the dead dwarf in Blackwood's casket?

Not to mention they also had this huge clock named after Benjamin Franklin.

[–] PukkaPies 13 years ago

hmmm....

[–] gbeach 12 years ago

Since Blackwood used the clock striking twelve to indicate when he would carry out his threat it only makes sense that his cohorts in the tunnel could have easily triggered the device in the basement of the vary same building using the same bells.

However, I see four reasons why there could be a need for a remote detonator:

1) Irene demonstrated to Holmes that Blackwood made it impossible to disable the device due to some sort of reverse magnetic field. It's possible this field would also prevent anyone triggering the device.

2) It's conceivable that Blackwood was an anal retentive perfectionist that didn't trust his goons to carry out the coordinated activation.

3) Maybe Blackwood wanted to trigger the device at the precise moment he finished his diatribe to the Lords.

4) Because it's way more super-villainish.

And FYI, Big Ben is not the name of the clock but one of the bells in the clock itself and it is not named for Benjamin Franklin. It is named either for Sir Benjamin Hall who oversaw the bell's installation or English heavyweight champion Benjamin Caunt.

[–] Munstrum_Ridcully 13 years ago

There is not a problem here in the context of the whole film.
Blackwood wanted everyone to think he was a great sorcerer and magician, including his own men. (He never told them they were inoculated, he wanted them to believe he had been merciful.)
Those who installed his machine for him had no idea what it was capable of, or how it worked.
Killing with a flick of a switch appealed to his massive ego, as did everyone not knowing how he did it.
"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic."
Blackwood was the ultimate hokum/ hoodoo-voodoo artist, to such an extent that he half believed it himself.

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