I am not so sure if the title refers to a Sherlock/Moriarty showdown. We've had the fall twice already, I seriously don't believe they would do it a third time. 

My first thought was more in the direction SusiGo was going - Sherlock's own demons.

Edit: Or it's the final showdown with Moriarity being, without a shadow of a doubt, very dead. That would be kind of like an ending. 

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*runs through the thread, knickers flaming, flailing wildly*

Another thing: To me one big difference between Canon Watson's hiatus and our John's hiatus was that in Canon Holmes did not commit suicide. He did a "noble" death fighting his most dangerous adversary. Watson mourned but he did not feel guilty, at least not as guilty as John must have felt who left Sherlock with the words "you machine" and saw him jumping to his death half an hour later. 

For the original audience it was must worse as well since ACD did not want to continue and therefore killed Holmes off. We, however, knew that Sherlock would return, we just had to wait. 

This is not funny. As a mod you are responsible for the sanity of our members. 

I would think so!
 

So it was no red herring but indeed carelessness. Thought so. 
 

The fandom is SO clever sniffing out such stuff! I mean, how does it even happen? A mystery! I wonder for how much longer they would have kept us guessing if not for the leak, and I feel a little sorry for them (and for the hapless agency manager or whoever added that bit of info a little too early).

I think the mainstream media did not realise at all that this happened. It was just all over tumblr. 

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I think the mainstream media did not realise at all that this happened. It was just all over tumblr. 

But at least somebody must have tweeted the leak to Mark or Amanda, right?