SusiGo wrote:

There is no real baby. 

Or

John is not the father. 
 

 
I just saw this on tumblr as a clue that John can't father a child...



It says "'Combat made me sterile' claims army major"

Apparently it is a thing
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/studies/new-generation/infertility.asp

Last edited by ukaunz (December 13, 2016 9:33 am)

Are you trying to tell me that John "3 Continents" Watson is shooting blanks! 

Mycroft will die, or at least Sherlock will think that Mycroft dies.

It would be the "perfect" emotional pay-off from their bet in TAB and Mycroft asking John to care for Sherlock.

It'll be interesting to find out if that's true.

This is what the PBS site says:
Sherlock returns for its fourth season on January 1, 2017 at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS.In "The Six Thatchers," Sherlock waits to see where Moriarty will make his posthumous move. One mysterious case in particular baffles Scotland Yard, but Sherlock is more interested in a seemingly trivial detail. Why is someone destroying images of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher? Is there a madman on the loose? Or is there a much darker purpose at work? Something with its roots deep in Mary Watson's past…Benedict Cumberbatch returns as Sherlock Holmes, with Martin Freeman as John Watson, Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade, Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson, Amanda Abbington as Mary Watson and Louise Brealey as Molly Hooper. (episode length approximate)

Last edited by kgreen20 (December 17, 2016 2:22 am)

I was just finally about to post my predictions, when I thought I'd better check the original post, and realised that this was only valid up to setlock!  As I was in the setlock spoiler thread, it's unfair of me to post.   And I suppose we have had quite a few official spoilers now too.   I'm still going to keep my predictions in the back of my mind.  Only two to four weeks before we find out!

I'll be honest, I started watching after S3 aired, but I would not, in any way, have been able to predict S3 after S2!  I would not have seen those twists coming!  So I suspect I might be just as off the mark about S4.
 

Last edited by Liberty (December 18, 2016 8:54 am)

My "called it" will be that TST will be John's nightmare-- literally. They've laid seeds throughout s3 for John being jealous of Mary's apparent closeness to Sherlock, as well as the new clip seeming to be a nightmare scenario of neither of them thinking John is any good or worth bringing along to a case, and being saddled (literally) with the baby.

At the end of the episode, the nightmare ends (John wakes up). Then we see that Sherlock is still in his coma from being shot. He wakes up at the beginning of TLD.

Last edited by GimmeCat (December 20, 2016 5:05 am)

Rache wrote:

I suspect that the year 1985 (or 1986) will play a role.

Why?

Sounds interesting. When did Carl Powers die?

221b is destroyed by the end of the season ("the end of an era"), Sherlock and John move to a cottage in Sussex to continue as innbeekeepers. Sherlock writes a white paper on apiculture and new environmental challenges, thus revolutionizing the field.

Moftiss admit in a widely broadcasted interview that getting the world's attention to the environmental issues was their endgame from the start and present us with an ultimatum: stop killing bees and polluting the air, else there will be no S5. Sue simultaneously leaks a storyboard of John licking honey off  somebody's long neck. China's manufacturing industry screeches to a halt.

...Here's to the better new year than the old one.

Liberty wrote:

I think you've nailed it, Ewige!  No need to watch it now!

I think I've developed an allergic reaction to shock blankets