20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Sherlock
3. There's 17 Steps To 221B To Please The Fans
In Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia, Holmes talks about observation and how Watson is often oblivious to obvious things. He uses the stairs up to 221B as an example, stating there's seventeen, something Watson had never taken the care to notice:
"You have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room. Frequently. How often? Well, some hundreds of times. Then how many are there? How many? I don't know. Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed."
And, as we've come to expect from the very intricate modernisation, this element is carried through into show; there's exactly seventeen steps up to the 221B flat. Moffat clearly expected some very particular fans from the off.
