SusiGo wrote:

As interesting as it is depressing, tykobrian. 
I fear that a lot of fans will leave if they keep Sherlock and John apart for at least another three episodes. I would not since I think that the meta is quite persuasive but others might think differently. 

Just a request - since this is not strictly Johnlock but worth discussing could you post it somewhere else as well: in the Mary thread for example or the one about series 4 in general? 

Haha fans won't leave because they won't ever imagine that Mofitson would do such a thing.  They'd already separated those two for one entire series. People'll think SURELY they won't do that again!! But to be honest it's obvious that they won't be together in Baker St. until Mary's in the picture and she sure won't disappear at the start of S4. For s4 all I can come up with is John occasionally joining Sherlock on his cases (like s3); Mary and John coming over to Baker St. (like s3); Sherlock going over to the Warstan residence; John staying in Baker St. while Mary visits her friends or something (sort of like canon) since she doesn’t have relatives to visit. Ha ha those two are going to be painfully separate again in s4 especially now that John and Mary has a baby coming. How Moffitson is going to play with this situation is one of the most anticipated things of Series 4 for me.

I'm 24 btw

Lola Red wrote:

That meta is quite interesting. I never realized that Mary was already in the restaurant. It does pose the question of what could be so important that she had to leave halfway through the proposal, she could always dismiss a phone call (or cross her legs).
The flicker of the eyes I find not conclusive, could work as a “and there is Sherlock”, as a “what is that waiter doing here” or a “oh look, movement”.
It does take her a long time to recognize Sherlock, though she has never met him in person before and (assuming she was not planted) there would be no reason to expect her so see him. So that part would kind of work either way for me.

But Sherlock is not like say a reality show and they are not filming Mary and John live without any prior direction. Two consecutive furtive looks (and I mean really furtive, I noticed them very recently. We all are so absorbed with Sherlock and John's part of the scene) like those doesn't make much sense. It feels so random. And she is doing this when John is about to propose to her and she already has guessed what is about to happen. And she is still being distracted by the ambience?

Also, a person like Mary taking this long to recognize the famous Sherlock while dating his best friend -who she helped recover from the grief of his death- and after John's violent reaction is rather hard for me to swallow. Maybe she tried to act to appear the things you said she should normally react to Sherlock and not being tipped off but overcompensated to fool/bluff him? Donno, but now that I think about it maybe this (and perhaps coupled with the fact she totally convinced John of her liking for his mustache while actually loathing it) is what led to Sherlock's infamous liar deduction.

SusiGo wrote:

Sorry if this is not referring to the last posts but I found this TEH meta quite interesting. Especially the idea that Mary might have observed Sherlock from above:

http://deducingbbcsherlock.tumblr.com/post/81317834836/if-you-havent-already-done-it-id-be-interested

Also she gives furtive looks towards her right, where Sherlock went away minutes ago and from where he’ll appear soon! (Just watch the scene if you can for now if you wanna be sure, I’ll gif it soon.)




 

Could it be possible to let the player choose the appearance of Sherlock? You know, like RPG games.