And we're on page 63 too. 

63 days will pass sooo quickly! I feel like I've just finished watching TAB for the very first time and was drying my eyes... 

I fear the answer as much as I am longing for it!

Or maybe he fails to save the baby and it really is his fault.

I've been wondering about that too.  The violin with the broken string seemed to imply (to me) four people and one death.   The "three" were John, Mary and the baby, so I'd imagine the other is Sherlock (it's got to be him as he's the violin player), and that one of them will die.  Now, Sherlock being the violin player makes me wonder if he'd be the one to break to the string and kill the fourth person.  The broken string seems to be the highest one, the one closest to a child's voice, suggesting the baby is the one to go. 

Sherlock wrote the wedding song for John and Mary in the last series.  It makes me wonder if his next song is going to be a christening song or a funeral dirge. 

But as usual, I'm kind of thinking aloud.  There are other things that spring to mind - for instance that the violin is personal to Sherlock, so it may be only something of his that gets "broken". 

One of the reasons I am not sure about John being wrecked with grief for Mary and/or the baby is the fact that during setlock Martin always seems very composed and in control. Whereas Sherlock at least during ep. 2 was quite contrary. Same goes for the trailer. On the other they might trick us by creating false impressions. But I am still not sure they are going to have the baby die, mainly because this is so extremely far away from Canon. 
 

SusiGo wrote:

I am still convinced that the baby will not play an important part in S4. I was something getting those vibes from everything they did over the last months. 

Me too. That is why I think it will be gone/killed off quite early, and maybe some of the drama and angst will involve the aftermath of this.

John was also curiously absent in the trailer. Of course, Sherlock is - and should be - the main main character. However, I hope John will play a bigger part in the series than he does in the trailer.

As for straying away from canon, I think having Mary as an assassin that shoots and almost kills Sherlock is quite straying from canon already.

Last edited by Vhanja (November 3, 2016 7:14 pm)

I just found out that the free-to-air channel TVOne in NZ will be screening season 4, but the dates are still TBA. I'm hoping I'll get to watch the first couple of episodes while I'm over there in January, if not I'll just have to wait until I return to Australia and watch it on "Stan", the streaming network that has bought the rights (it used to just screen on the ABC, our equivalent to the BBC). But that means I'll only have to wait until Jan 13, so I'm pretty happy about this

Oh they already answered! I asked if they would be showing it in January and they said that they had bought series 4... but didn't have the rights to show it yet. 

I'm kind of confused, lol. Did they mean they technically could air it now if they were allowed?? Or did they mean they haven't been told when they can air it after BBC has shown them? 

I thought, they were still working on the music? Didn't someone here post a tweet 1-2 weeks ago from Mr Arnold and Mr Price that they were working on it and thinking about us Sherlock fans?

So did I... maybe the lady on facebook read my question wrong. They have been re-running the show the last weeks, TAB is on tonight... so maybe they thought I was asking if they were continuing with series 4 next week... 

I'll try to translate their answer a bit better:

"We have bought series 4, and we will show it. But we do not have the rights to air it right now. We will of course make an announcement when we start showing it!"

Yeah... they read my question wrong. I said January.