Mail Online took delight on Friday morning in pointing out errors in Sherlock uncovered by fans. So it is only fair that Monkey highlights certain, ahem, "elementary" mistakes in a review of The Empty Hearse posted on New Year's Day. The Media Blog reports that the review when originally launched featured a picture of Martin Freeman as Watson captioned: "Quieter and more human, as Doctor Watson, Tim Freeman actually upstaged Sherlock's star Dominic Cumberbatch". Meanwhile, a photo of screenwriter and actor Mark Gatiss stated: "Scene-stealer extraordinaire: Mark Gatiss not only wrote The Empty Hearse but upstaged Dominic Cumberbatch and Tim Freeman, not as the evil mastermind, but as Sherlock's brother Mycroft". Both were later corrected – but a reference to a guest appearance by "Darren Brown" remained (it has since also been amended). Was Mail Online confused by Martin Freeman's role as Tim in The Office? And was it thinking of Dominic West rather than Benedict Cumberbatch? Monkey feels a new mystery unfolding. Still, as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in the Sherlock Holmes story the Man with the Twisted Lip: "It is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all."
