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November 11, 2015 6:51 pm  #81


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

OK, my new theory about the Special and how there can be a Victorian time warp.  It involves the ultimate Moftiss conceit.

Two modern day TV show writers, who also happen to be Sherlock fanboys, meet on a train and begin discussing making a Sherlock Holmes adaptation and promoting it to the BBC. The Special is their creative imagining - which we get to see played out on the screen.

This could be the show as it would have been had it not brought into the modern era 


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November 11, 2015 8:00 pm  #82


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Ha! I can see them doing that!


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November 11, 2015 8:13 pm  #83


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

I would love that!


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November 12, 2015 3:30 am  #84


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

And the Special ends with the BBC saying they really like the concept but Sherlock Holmes adaptations have been done to death.  Can't they come up with a new twist - like, maybe setting it in the 21st Century?  And the rest, as they say, is history....


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And I said "dangerous" and here you are.

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November 12, 2015 5:03 am  #85


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

What a great idea!


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November 12, 2015 5:04 am  #86


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Awh yes! A true meta episode. I love it!


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November 12, 2015 5:58 am  #87


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Very clever indeed, KP! I can already picture that.


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November 12, 2015 6:42 am  #88


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

See, Mark and Steven can just rest on their laurels and let the fans write Sherlock for them....oh no, what am I saying?!  Tee Hee.


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November 12, 2015 7:39 am  #89


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Brilliant idea, KP! 


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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes

"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)

“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)



 
 

November 12, 2015 10:02 am  #90


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Yeah, KP, that could it be indeed... they way it went.


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November 12, 2015 3:24 pm  #91


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

KeepersPrice wrote:

And the Special ends with the BBC saying they really like the concept but Sherlock Holmes adaptations have been done to death. Can't they come up with a new twist - like, maybe setting it in the 21st Century? And the rest, as they say, is history....

What do you mean?


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November 12, 2015 4:37 pm  #92


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Er, well we now have a 21st century version!


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November 13, 2015 8:20 am  #93


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Forgive me if this has been mentioned already, but considering what has been said lately for example by Steven Moffatt -that it was an aim to make the women more important and able to speak up *wildly paraphrazing here*- and the importance of the year 1895... That made me thinking: movement of the suffragettes maybe? We also had the meta discussing the involvement of the women working in the match industries. I read on wikipedia a bit about the suffragettes and somehow it rang a bell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette
It covers not only the movement in Great Britain though. And I cannot really draw a connection to some SH story. But please look at the pictures at the bottom, there's the one which reminds me of Mary's costume, second row, on the right.
 


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November 13, 2015 8:39 am  #94


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Mrshouse, that for me sheds a whole new light to the "Those gentlemen" line!

 


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November 13, 2015 9:22 am  #95


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

I just happened to watch "The Golden Pince Nez" (Granada series) today, and it featured Suffragettes (although it turned it to be irrelevant to the mystery). Everything is canon, as Moftiss say


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November 13, 2015 9:35 am  #96


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Interesting, ukaunz, I have to read that again.


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Eventually everyone will support Johnlock.


"If you're not reading the subtext then hell mend you"  -  Steven Moffat
"Love conquers all" Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock's and John's relationship
"This is a show about a detective, his best friend, his wife, their baby and their dog" - Nobody. Ever.

 

November 14, 2015 3:58 am  #97


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

mrshouse, I don't think the suffragettes were in the original ACD story, I think it was added in to the Granada adaptation to pad the story out a bit


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November 16, 2015 8:35 pm  #98


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

A theory concerning the role of the bride in a ShSpesh:

http://cosmoglaut.tumblr.com/post/131961684038
 


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November 17, 2015 5:03 am  #99


Re: What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

Interesting. Where did they get the name Emilia Ricoletti from? Setlock? Just wondering...


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November 17, 2015 7:58 am  #100


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"To fake the death of one sibling may be regarded as a misfortune; to fake the death of both looks like carelessness." Oscar Wilde about Mycroft Holmes

"It is what it is says love." (Erich Fried)

“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.” (Benedict Cumberbatch)



 
 

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