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September 6, 2012 11:37 am  #81


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

I think the Rat episode may be a mashup of Empty House and Boscome Valley, for the admittedly silly reason that each has a character named Moran; no real connection, I know, but I think Moftiss could make one. (Someone else said this too in another thread, but they had better reasoning for it  )
I sort of dread Wedding, because I think they could marry John off, just because one of them ( think it was Gatiss) said that most Holmes serials ignore John's marriage which is a 'lazy' way of doing it, 'people don't flat-share forever'. (I will try to find the interview, there is a link to it somewhere on this forum, I think).
I think Bow has to be His Last Bow, but I don't think that excludes the possibility of a fourth series; Moftiss are not that strict about the cannon, and I can absolutely see Mycroft recruiting/gangpressing the boys into an undercover operation against a terrorist cell. Keeper, I would love to see Sherlock unwillingly and ungraciously knighted! Hopefully he'd dress for the occasion ( as opposed to forgetting his trousers). 


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September 6, 2012 11:12 pm  #82


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

NW16XE wrote:

I sort of dread Wedding, because I think they could marry John off, just because one of them ( think it was Gatiss) said that most Holmes serials ignore John's marriage which is a 'lazy' way of doing it, 'people don't flat-share forever'. (I will try to find the interview, there is a link to it somewhere on this forum, I think).

I dread it too, because I thought of the same interview snippet. I vehemently hope I'm wrong in suspecting this, because I have absolutely zero interest in seeing married!John. Boring! But then, Mary Morstan dies off-page in canon, so if they go down this route in the future it could be potentially more interesting.

 

September 7, 2012 11:06 am  #83


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Plus, they have barely touched on The Sign of Four, just here and there, it really is a major story.  Perhaps Sherlock comes back to find John engaged, moving on with his life. It would be easier for him to sustain a relationship with Sherlock gone.


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September 7, 2012 7:39 pm  #84


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

I had not heard about that interview before, but I guess it does make sense in a way. BBC Sherlock has been very good at portraying realistic human relationships, so after a while they will have to let the John-Sherlock friendship evolve as well (and I'm afraid it won't be what the Johnlockers are waiting for ). People really don't flat-share forever with the same person, and spend all their time together for years. Especially if there really are 2-3 years between the end of S2 and the next episode, John simply HAS to move on. I know I said earlier that I don't think we will see John move out of Baker Street because of the comedy potential, and I stick to that. But at some point in the future, it would be nice to see.

As to the wedding in S3, there are quite a few other possibilities, not necessarily involving John getting married. I have just finished reading all the stories in "The Adventures of S.H.", and there are several (almost-) weddings there. Anything from "The Noble Bachelor" to "A Case of Identity" or even "The Speckled Band" would work, if adapted well. Just think of how far removed from the original story ASiB was.


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September 7, 2012 11:34 pm  #85


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I wouldn't be surprised if they did "The Speckled Band," seeing as it is Moffat or Gatiss's (sorry, forgot which) favorite story, and they haven't even referenced that yet.

 

September 8, 2012 6:46 am  #86


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

They have referenced it though. In The Speckled Blonde scene and mention in John's blog. Remember?


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September 8, 2012 11:30 am  #87


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Davina wrote:

They have referenced it though. In The Speckled Blonde scene and mention in John's blog. Remember?

I've been wondering about that-- do they not intend to do the stories they referenced as joke titles for John's blog, and do they not intend to do the ones referenced in the online companion-to-the-show blog?


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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. -- Roger Scruton
 

September 8, 2012 11:44 am  #88


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I don't know really. They don't write the actual blogs, Joe Lister does.


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September 8, 2012 6:58 pm  #89


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Davina wrote:

They have referenced it though. In The Speckled Blonde scene and mention in John's blog. Remember?

Yes, I remember, but that does not mean they cannot use the story in another episode. They would have to change the story anyway if they would want to use it as its own episode, because the Speckled Band is only a short story.


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September 9, 2012 1:55 am  #90


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Davina wrote:

They have referenced it though. In The Speckled Blonde scene and mention in John's blog. Remember?

Oops, sorry, forgot which ones they did at the beginning of SiB and which ones they just mentioned in the commentary

 

September 9, 2012 6:45 pm  #91


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Yes, it was in A Scandal in Belgravia that John coins the case "The Speckled Blonde".

I imagine that wedding is a reference to the Noble Bachelor. Most likely Rat will involve Sherlock returning in a mix of The Empty House and Boscombe Valley (as has been mentioned before), along with the discovery that John is engaged (possibly some Sign of the Four reference as well with Mary).

Wedding will be the undoing of John's engagement via the Noble Bachelor.


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September 10, 2012 2:02 pm  #92


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

The idea of a mix between the Empty House and Boscombe Valley Mystery does have a strong appeal, I must admit. The two Morans, the man hunted by his own criminal past... it really would be interesting to see.

I could also imagine that only the "...rat..." element is used from Boscombe, without the rest of the story. By that I mean that somebody says (or writes or texts) the word rat, but really it is just a fragment of another word or a name. I doubt it will be used as an abreviation or acronym, simply because we have already had that with H.O.U.N.D.


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September 11, 2012 7:21 pm  #93


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Yeah, Speckled Band is Moffat's favourite. He said they might do parts of it in the future although he was fairly ambiguous and mysterious as ever.

I'm sort of coming round to the idea that it MIGHT be John's wedding they're referring to...At first I thought it would be too obvious, because EVERYONE is going to think of Mary Morstan & John, but then, the three words they gave us last year were really easy to work out - WOMAN, HOUND, FALL - even a casual Sherlockian would have been able to guess them.

So I don't know whether people are trying to read too deep into it, and we should just "say what we see"...so BOW is His Last Bow. They've obviously done that on purpose to make us all think that Sherlock is going to retire and start keeping bees, but they could basically just adapt the general storyline without retiring the guy just yet...WEDDING is John's wedding and yes I really would like to see them mix it with another storyline somehow though, maybe Noble Bachelor...I still really want it to be Milverton, but there isn't an actual wedding in that one, just an engagement. It makes sense for RAT to be Boscombe Valley.


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September 11, 2012 7:27 pm  #94


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

I'm sort of coming round to the idea that it MIGHT be John's wedding they're referring to...At first I thought it would be too obvious, because EVERYONE is going to think of Mary Morstan & John, but then, the three words they gave us last year were really easy to work out - WOMAN, HOUND, FALL - even a casual Sherlockian would have been able to guess them.

So you don't think there's any hope for us Johnlockers, that it's a Sherlock-John wedding, huh? *laughing*

So I don't know whether people are trying to read too deep into it, and we should just "say what we see"...so BOW is His Last Bow. They've obviously done that on purpose to make us all think that Sherlock is going to retire and start keeping bees, but they could basically just adapt the general storyline without retiring the guy just yet

Undoubtedly another helluva cliff-hanger, just as they've done the last two seasons.

 

September 11, 2012 9:01 pm  #95


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Actually...I just read a really good post by someone on this theory website, that made me change my mind again about the whole John/Mary wedding thing:

http://www.hypable.com/2012/08/24/sherlock-series-deducing-rat-wedding-bow/

I don't really understand the idea that the second story will include John's getting married to Mary.

The second word is "wedding," not "marriage," and no ACD story includes a wedding for Watson. In "Sign of the Four," Watson proposes, but doesn't marry. Later he's referred to as being already married, but the wife isn't named: she may or may not be Mary Morstan. She is already dead by the time Sherlock returns from his own "death." Several later stories refer to Watson's being married, presumably to one (or more) other women.

Also, practically every major element of "Sign of the Four" has already been done in "The Blind Banker." Given how few episodes are made, is it likely that Moffat and Gatiss will do a second episode involving stolen treasure from the east being re-stolen by one of the crooks who is then killed by one of the original criminals who has a sort of pipe that shoots a deadly projectile and who has small feet and hands and who is a sort of acrobat climbing walls and running across rooftops in search of the treasure, part of which is a small gem that has been given to a woman who doesn't know of its origin? Why, "The Blind Banker" even includes a pair of feuding siblings, and a scene in which John and his new girlfriend cling to each other in a moment of dangerous excitement - again, all right out of "Sign of the Four."

"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," "A Case of Identity," "The Speckled Band," "The Solitary Cyclist," "The Illustrious Client," and "Lady Frances Carfax" all contain plots that focus in some way on a wedding (just past or planned). Any or all of them seem more likely for the "wedding" clue than "Sign of the Four."


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September 11, 2012 10:01 pm  #96


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

I thought "wedding" could be only meant as "marriage", of course. But there is a quarter of Berlin called " Berlin- Wedding". 
Or Wed-ding? Some kind of wordplay , too? A weth thing? A weird thing?
Rat. R-A-T?  A acronyme, perhaps ? ( Sebastian " The Rat" Moran ? As Moriarty is "The Spider" ? )   Bow. B-O-W? Bow-?)

 

September 12, 2012 5:01 am  #97


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They've already used an acronym in Hound so it is unlikely they will do the same again.


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September 15, 2012 2:42 pm  #98


Re: RAT. WEDDING. BOW.

Well, I watched the interview with Moffat, Gatniss, and Moriarti ( whom I know is an actor, but when I see him all I can think is Moriarti) specifying it is indeed "Bow" like bowing before a king, not "bow" like a hair ribbon or archery. All I can think is his last bow, but I don't understand why they would end a show as popular as Sherlock right now. Perhaps the leads want out to do the other two Hobbit movies? Wedding, I think, refrences Watson's. Moffat (shake fist*) said he "had to deal with John moving out" but didn't know if he was going to marry him. I'm guessing he decided to. I mean, a real Doyle fan can't just wreck a major plot line!?! Plus, he could've easily met a girl to help get over Sherlock's death. And Rat. Well, all these other theories sound much better than mine. I just think it fits in nicely with the adventure of the empty house and the fact the Moriarti is one. Oh, and I also think Moriarti is really dead, because the creators of the show said he wouldn't be featurd as heavily and he died in the books. But we also know Moffat has no trouble bring dead characters back (Rory Williams) So, my conclusion is that I need a high functioning sociopath of a consulting detective to figure this out for me

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September 16, 2012 3:41 am  #99


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September 16, 2012 7:08 am  #100


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The second Hobbit movie is already filmed and I doubt the third will intervene unduly as there would be about an 18 month gap between Sherlock series anyway. Just remember that Moftiss are really good at winding an audience up.


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