Schmiezi wrote:

At the moment, I am sure that we will get a brilliant episode but not TV history. Maybe that is just me preparing to be realistic about it.

There is something else I can't get off my mind. Steve and Mark once said something about making their childhood dream about Sherlock Holmes come true this series. Does anybody remember that too? Do we have clues what that could be?

They talked about "insane wish fulfilment" - is that what you're thinking of?   I suppose that could be anything.  I feel they've done a bit of wish fulfilment already (the Bond references, etc.).  The other thing that stuck in my mind was them saying ages ago that their Sherlock was the one who hadn't yet become the kind of man portrayed by Basil Rathbone, and later I think they said that TFP would remind us of the Rathbone films.  It's difficult because insane wish fulfilment could be quite personal to them! 

The other thing I was thinking is that there has been a lot in the news about the big reveal of Eurus, and I wondered if that's what Amanda meant by "if they can pull it off" i.e. if they can make the audience see one person playing different characters and not notice.  If that's the case, I'll be disappointed (especially as we did notice!)!  But hopefully there's going to be a much bigger reveal in TFP. 
 

Last edited by Liberty (January 15, 2017 9:08 am)

I noticed, but had no idea of the significance.  I was very puzzled!  So it was definitely a big reveal for me.  I'm thinking about how they really publicised Toby Jones playing Culverton Smith, but there hasn't been a mention of Sian, she wasn't at panels/interviews, etc.  I mean obviously she wasn't.  But they have quite carefully covered her up, and I wonder if the cover up is what they were trying to "pull off". 

However ... only a few hours to go! I think I'm trying to lower my own expectations so that I'm not disappointed just in case we don't get something really major!  But I'm still holding out hope.  So far, I haven't been disappointed with the previous episodes - in fact they have exceeded my expectation is some ways! 

I still remember watching ASIP and thinking for the whole 90 minutes, "How on Earth can a man be so beautiful???"

I thought the same, but it really hit me in ASIB!  Something about him being an object of desire for Irene, maybe made him (even) more attractive.  I thought the "Sherlocked" scene was one of the sexiest things I'd seen on TV.  (I don't watch a lot of TV, though).   Anyway, I'm distracting myself ... I have been delighted so far.  I might have some minor quibbles about some things, but I was over the moon about the last two episodes.  I'm sure I'm going to love TFP - just trying not to get my expectations too high!   Now that we're thinking that it may be the last ever, there's an awful lot hanging on it. 

I know it was brilliant and Steven rightly won awards...but not an episode I watch on repeat much.
Lara was brilliant.
I know they were trying to update the original story, but it isn't how I would have portrayed Irene and let's face it, I just didn't want Sherlock to be attracted to her.

Liberty wrote:

Schmiezi wrote:

At the moment, I am sure that we will get a brilliant episode but not TV history. Maybe that is just me preparing to be realistic about it.

There is something else I can't get off my mind. Steve and Mark once said something about making their childhood dream about Sherlock Holmes come true this series. Does anybody remember that too? Do we have clues what that could be?

They talked about "insane wish fulfilment" - is that what you're thinking of?   I suppose that could be anything.  I feel they've done a bit of wish fulfilment already (the Bond references, etc.).  The other thing that stuck in my mind was them saying ages ago that their Sherlock was the one who hadn't yet become the kind of man portrayed by Basil Rathbone, and later I think they said that TFP would remind us of the Rathbone films.  It's difficult because insane wish fulfilment could be quite personal to them! 

The other thing I was thinking is that there has been a lot in the news about the big reveal of Eurus, and I wondered if that's what Amanda meant by "if they can pull it off" i.e. if they can make the audience see one person playing different characters and not notice.  If that's the case, I'll be disappointed (especially as we did notice!)!  But hopefully there's going to be a much bigger reveal in TFP. 
 

Insane wish fulfillment, yes. Thank you@

I really feel like I will tear up already when the intro is rolling.
Gosh, only thinking about this now, makes me emotionally uncomfortable. :'(

Last edited by Rache (January 15, 2017 2:05 pm)

Really?

Could we move this discussion to a spoiler thread or something?