Well, the worst rug pull would be to have a villain one has always counted among the good ones. Molly would be perfect. Or Mycroft. Not exactly a good man but at least apparently the loving big brother. 

Same here. I am in no way sure, it is just speculation. My bet is on Mycroft if we are going to get a devastating rug pull. 

I've wondered about Molly, purely because I was wondering if they'd make a villain out of somebody we already know   I don't think she's a terribly good candidate for the above reasons - I don't think there have been dark hints.  It was also mess up both their developments - she has dealt with being "a woman scorned", Sherlock has realised the value of people who care about him and so on.   She's been at the right place at the right time to be involved with Moriarty's death, but I don't get any hint of that in TEH. 

(Yes, I did consider Mrs Hudson, Lestrade and of course, Mycroft.  I did even think of John for the darkest of dark twists but am very confident that they wouldn't go there!  Mary is the most obvious, but then she's not the "story they've been telling from the beginning" which makes her less likely to be an archvillain (although she could be a more minor one) and she's already had a big reveal.  Molly has been there from the beginning, but they do say that she wasn't originally written as a major character.).

Good!

Could still have been filming!

I bet that this is Jim´s evil twin (one of his two brothers, both called "James").

Or it will be a real Jim and the man who shot himself into his head was an impostor?

Or it is an elaborate mind palace again?

Yes he does 
Hope he is faking in dying detective , and then maybe a real drugged hallucination in devils.

can't deal with too much angst

Maybe it really resembles the plot of "The Devil´s Foot"... Sherlock comes to Cornwall to definitely give up drugs.

Andrew has Twitter?
Since when?
News to me.
Just checked, I'm pretty sure he still doesn't do Twitter.
I also can't find th pix on Amanda's page...

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I'm still pondering the fact that they've made no attempt to hide the Andrew scenes (apparently), but made great effort it to keep it secret that he was in TAB.   (Because it wouldn't really have been a huge spoiler that if they were doing a Victorian Sherlock, they'd include a Victorian Moriarty?).  Which suggests either that it's even less of a spoiler than in TAB, OR that they're fooling us!    Less of a spoiler could mean it's just a flashback/mind palace.  And maybe they think we now expect to see Andrew in ever series anyway!  Or maybe they are seeing Setlock as more of an event this time and happy to give lots of clues - it certainly generates interest (although I suspect those following setlock won't need any encouragement to watch the show when it airs!).

I do kind of like the double bluff aspect of this being true along with the Moriarty/Mycroft handshake though.