SusiGo wrote:

sue vertue ‏@suevertue
Baker Street awaits.
 

Feels like coming home. 

Two days left!!!!!
 

SusiGo wrote:

sue vertue ‏@suevertue
Baker Street awaits.
 

Right now I'm feeling like sitting down diagonally in Sherlock's chair and hugging the backrest cushion...

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Russell wrote:

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Yeah, I think that's probably true, because if you think about it...if they went with the traditional three years, they would have to set it in the future...which seems like an unlikely thing for them to do.

So maybe the period that John has been without Sherlock, is pretty much roughly the same period we've been without Sherlock.

So you mean they had that long wait on purpose, just to keep it helpfully 'aligned' with the show that way.

(hee.... kidding asides, I totally agree with all the comments previously made that a modern-day Holmes wouldn't 'need' three years like the canon one did, not to mention keeping it aligned with 'real time', not to mention the untouched flat, even if John needed time away, that they came back sooner rather than later before Mrs. Hudson finally did something)

Mmm... makes ya wonder about the 'untouched-ness', though too... poor John, either staying away, or making enough as a doctor to stay on and just living there with everything left as it was? No doubt enabled by his dear friend landlady...

Or Mycroft paying Sherlock's half of the rent.
 

 

Hee...  I was gonna add something about that, but the idea still seems amusingly uncertain... I mean, this is Mycroft... so arranging it/telling John in a way where it implies guilt and helping him out (probably an easy story to swallow after recent part in events)?  Or John being suspicious that he's doing so and 'why would he be helping me, hm... unless he knows something he's not telling'.  ;)  That's what I might've wondered, if him, anyway.  Oh, or unless it's a two-part thing deflecting it towards himself... 'I'll help pay to keep you there so I don't have to put Sherlock's stuff in storage, until further notice when we figure something out'.  ;)  ;)   Crafty boys.... heh... but not to think about it too much, at all....   just can't wait to see how they tweak everything together....   

besleybean wrote:

Tho John has said he doesn't want to return to the flat.

All will be revealed in time.

Even though John said in 2.3 that he couldn't go back to the flat right then, perhaps when we see 3.1, we'll find out that he had to go back, for whatever reasons (financial, for one, especially if he could live there more cheaply than anywhere else, or perhaps just because it felt like "home", etc)

Or maybe we'll find that Mrs. H kept the place exactly as they'd left it, and then after the S/J reunion, they can go back there and resume their lives/life.

Ah, so much anticipation!

QuiteExtraordinary wrote:

My theory is that the set they're building now will not be the one they'll use for the first scenes immediately after Sherlock's return. I think it would be unrealistic to leave it exactly the way it was, except if Sherlock had been gone only for a very short time.

agreed.    But they also may need to keep the flat as it was,   if they plan to film any "flashbacks"  for the viewer,  as they explain what events have been happening since we've been away.   
 

Oh did you know.... they're starting tomorrow 

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

So therefore everything IS still like it was before Sherlock left....because it's basically not been touched.

...except that Mrs Hudson would do the lino every Tuesday and be stepping on the furniture to do the dusting.

OMG!!!
 
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