Well, judging from my own bump ... I  got pregnant in July and looked a lot like Mary around Christmas. If the wedding has taken place in August it fits perfectly.

When Mary shot Sherlock it could have been autumn, maybe October. (Again, judging from my own bump. I needed my first new clothes at the end of October.)

That would mean that Sherlock stayed in hospital for a while, which is rather realistic, IMO.

I think the scene and the dialogue would still work if Sherlock was released from the hospital at the beginning of December. They don't see each other often so something like "just home from hospital" can mean a larger time span than in normal families.  

By the way, my husband's sister is pregnant in her ninth month at the moment and her bump didn't grow very consistently. You couldn't see anything at all for about three to four months. It had a sudden leap in growth around the fifth month and again in the eighth month.  So it's hard to judge the time just from the size of her bump, especially with different clothes on.

I guess the shooting took place in October. They came back from their honeymoon at the end of August, then there's a time span of one month in which Sherlock didn't see each other, but it's not clear when that is, exactly, so some time in October seems legit. That means about two months of hospital for Sherlock.

The time frames are interesting, since they give us a hint, how they plan to continue in season four.
When Sherlock returns in TEH, he has been absent for 2 years, just as the show had a hiatus of two years. So, they kinda restarted this in real time. Season 3 starts in Sherlock universe in November and ends a bit more than one year later in December. It spreads out over more than a year. But in our universe, only two weeks have elapsed. So we're lagging one year behind. When they really manage to restart season 4 around next Chrismas or New Year's Day,  our universes are synchronized again, and they can start the action right, where they left off. If they don't manage to get the show aired one year from now (what I suspect, will happen ), they are one year behind our universe, but I still think, they will pick up the plot, where they left it, since Moriarty, dead or alive, has to be dealt with.
So, if they pick up the plot, where they left, the birth of the baby isn't assured at all. There are many ugly things, which still can happen.

Yeah I don't have kids - I trust your word

It's so strange that John's blog says the wedding was in August, because we have two TV canon references to May. At the end of TEH, Mary tells Mrs Hudson that they're looking for a May date, and the wedding invitation clearly gives a date in May:



I think at the beginning of HLV, they say John hasn't really talked to Sherlock in a month, and I somehow presumed that they hadn't really talked since the wedding (which kinda made sense to me, seeing how Sherlock left the wedding early, which in turn John might have read as a sign of Sherlock wanting to withdraw from John's life).

In my mind the beginning of HLV wasn't much later than June or July, which would also be in line with Mary's pregnancy. When they go pick up that neighbour's kid (and Sherlock) at the drug den, it doesn't seem as if you can see much of the baby bump yet, suggesting Mary is still in the first trimester-ish. Which would suggest June/July/August.

Taking that into account, hm, I don't think Sherlock would have been in the hospital longer than three or four weeks. The bullet wound didn't seem to have caused a huge amount of internal damage, suggesting his recovery wouldn't have been overly complicated. (Not that I have any experience here...) So if he was released shortly before Christmas, I'm not exactly sure how all of this is adding up. Of course it could be that the beginning of HLV was more towards October/November time, but then wouldn't Mary have had to be more visibly pregnant?

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You just want her to die....

Well no, I don't, really. I just love drama for our boys.
Which is cruel, I know!

Last edited by Hera (January 16, 2014 1:17 pm)

Between blog and TV episode I'm going to take the TV episode as canon, so my timeline goes like this:

November 2013 - Episode1, Sherlock comes back
May 18th - Episode 2, Wedding day
[somewhere between June and September, most likely early September] - Episode 3, John goes to the drug den, Sherlock gets shot; Sherlock's parents go line-dancing in "Oklahoma!";

[Usually otherwise healthy young gunshot survivors get discharged after about 1-2 weeks of hospital stay, still he did technically die during surgery so probably his wound was quite serious. The light clothing worn by everybody and a shirtless Sherlock seem to suggest that this part of the episode does indeed occur when the weather is still warm; still the mains are all wearing jackets and coats too so it can't be in the middle of the summer - I'm going with early-mid September. Also, Mary is still quite slender and fit when she shoots Sherlock, from a side shot I saw she could reasonably be no more than 4 months along. ]

Early-mid September - Sherlock reveals Mary's past; confrontation at 221b Baker St; Sherlock collapses. Off to the hospital he goes, meets Magnussen, etc. 

25th December - Christmas at the Holmes's, Appledore shooting (Mary should be around 7-8 months pregnant)
days after Christmas-early days of January 2015 - Tarmac scene; Moriarty's "return".

Last edited by shezza (January 16, 2014 2:49 pm)

Bloody hell that's a great spot Susi!

I wonder if there's a crossover then, between TsoT and HLV. That the hearing we see at the beginning of HLV happens before the wedding. Would explain sherlocks attitude to Janine at the wedding.....

Actually-- I'm trying to get the timing for when Mary went after Sherlock in the hospital? I'm still trying to figure out how she avoided John????

Ozymandias wrote:

John is a human haha
Sometimes he needs to get some food or go to the loo. Mary just waited the right moment ;)

Sorry to take so long to reply; beleive it or not, I hadn't thought of that, but it does work for the story I'm working on. Thanks!