OK, I'm unsubscribing from this thread. Not that you guys posted any spoilers, but it's scary to read what people post, not knowing what they're going to say next, line by line, lol. And I really want to keep my virgin eyes about episode 3.1. So bye-bye!

I think you're right there, Anja. They are much too clever to show us things that are easily to be deduced. But it's really quite hard too avoid spoilers. And the question is what you regard as a spoiler. Any pic from the set? The titles of the episodes? Information about new actors? I suppose people who don't want to know anything will have to shut off their Internet for months to come. 

SusiGo wrote:

I think you're right there, Anja. They are much too clever to show us things that are easily to be deduced. But it's really quite hard too avoid spoilers. And the question is what you regard as a spoiler. Any pic from the set? The titles of the episodes? Information about new actors? I suppose people who don't want to know anything will have to shut off their Internet for months to come. 

I agree. And I am personally not strong enough to shut off the net .
Everything which is somehow "official" (let´s say, everything what e.g. Sherlockology would publish, like titles, cast lists, actors coming and going to and from the set), is absolutely no spoiler for me personally. Therefore what I saw from the first day in Bristol is more than marginal, I think, but actually I don´t care so much, because, as I said before, I don´t know what it means in the end. But I don´t want to have that too often.
There is definetely a kind of greyzone of spoilers or information, which is valuated different from person to person. And that´s why I appreciate that forum here - it´s quite "safe", I think. Should I be in the mood for spoilers, I could easily open the setlock tag in twitter or tumblr.
But honestly, especially tumblr is from time to time unbearable for me - all these people who know best what the cast wants and judge about others - not my cup of tea .

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Thanks, beekeeper. That's what I'm thinking, too. I remember the "spoiler"  during the filming of Scandal, when Irene was at the window of 221b in Sherlock's blue dressing gown. Oh - what did the fandom read into this! And was wrong, of course...

Has somebody replied to you, cos I can?

Oh hi, dear!
Dunno if I have...just seen the spoiler pix from the filming I missed on Wed.

Yeah, I thought of something like that. Or John being in death danger, and Sherlock getting out of the darkness to save him.

Anyway, all I can say, is that my husband killed himself last summer, and if he returned after 3 years, telling me it was a fake suicide and all, I'd be so mad at him I would hit him so bad in the face that he may die for real!

No, really, if I were John, whatever the (probably good) reasons Sherlock is  going to give him, I'd be terribly angry, would find it hard to forgive and I wouldn't trust him anymore in the future...

Then, later, I would give it seconds thoughts and would realise how horrible it will have been for Sherlock too... Having to fake his own death, tell his only friend he is a fake (when we all know he loves so much being praised about his work that telling John he was a fraud must have been very difficult for him), living without John, and finally, even if he's not good with sentiments, I still hope he realises he has hurt John.

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Punch me in the face wrote:

Yeah, I thought of something like that. Or John being in death danger, and Sherlock getting out of the darkness to save him.

Anyway, all I can say, is that my husband killed himself last summer, and if he returned after 3 years, telling me it was a fake suicide and all, I'd be so mad at him I would hit him so bad in the face that he may die for real!

No, really, if I were John, whatever the (probably good) reasons Sherlock is  going to give him, I'd be terribly angry, would find it hard to forgive and I wouldn't trust him anymore in the future...

Then, later, I would give it seconds thoughts and would realise how horrible it will have been for Sherlock too... Having to fake his own death, tell his only friend he is a fake (when we all know he loves so much being praised about his work that telling John he was a fraud must have been very difficult for him), living without John, and finally, even if he's not good with sentiments, I still hope he realises he has hurt John.

 
I already posted something along the same lines in the too-similar other 'how will it happen' thread, but just wanted to say to your response in here as well, that definitely agree with that sentiment.  Sure, I've never been there, and can't imagine, and just a bit of sympathetic empathy among the lighter 'wouldn't it be great if they....' thoughts (because you know they probably aren't going to drag the moment down TOO much!), but great of you to be so open about it.  I think our boys have come a long way with each other, though, with speaking mind/showing how feel, and considering the writers, can probably be sure they won't be too frivolous about it, at least! 

besleybean wrote:

I just don't think they will go for the soppy reunion, I'm fairly confident I am gioing to be disappointed on that one.
Everybody seems to want violence(something that is beyond me)and I fear they will get exactly what they want.

 
Agreed.   But....  not so much 'violence', as, we've seen John get aggressive a couple times.  Not in a 'what a violent jerk' kind of way... always with good reason of being pushed, or defending something important.  With my previous comments on it, I'm just saying I certainly wouldn't put it past him to just punch Sherlock once out of a sudden release of emotion kind of way, like he did with him in SiB, and the police chief.  Before or after giving a non-soppy 'thank god' brief hug or getting yanked into the current case at hand.   

It will also depend on the circumstances. I mean, if John has time to get used to the idea before meeting Sherlock (If he's been warned by another character like Mycroft or if Sherlock has called him before), then I don't think there would be violence (nor do i think there would be a hug) but if Sherlock comes out of nowhere, seriously I don't know.

You see, when my husband made his 10th suicide attempt of 2012, and that he was in such a bad state (they had to put him in an artificial coma), doctors kept telling me that each day would probably be his last one and that it already was a miracle he hadn't died during the first night.

So each morning, I called the hospital first thing in the morning, and then went to see him during the afternoon (visits were not allowed in the morning) and on the 4th day, when I called and asked how he was doing (knowing that I had called during the night, he still was in a coma and all and the encephalogram showed nearly no brain activity!!!), the doctor who was on the phone said in the most natural way (as if it was nothing surprising) "Oh, yes, I was about to call you. He wake up this morning, he can't speak, but he replied positively to simple orders like holding hands"

My brother was with me at that moment but couldn't hear what was being said by the doctor, and he said my face went so blank and I looked so shocked and speechless that he had thought they had just announced me the death of my husband.

Someone who has not experienced this would say that I should have been happy, maybe screamed, and smiled. But I don't know, they had nearly told me his brain was dead a few hours earlier and then they were telling me he had woken up and understood what they had told him. It was like they had told me "Madam, your husband has just come back to life". I just can't explain how weird it felt.

Well he finally died, after three weeks of "rollercoaster"...

So yeah, I say it again, if he returned in a couple of years, and if I realised his suicide had been fake, that he had been alive all this time and left me suffer in a way no word can describe, well,  I am not an agressive kind of person, but my first reaction would be to slap him. Hard. And I think it would only be human. Not violent.

It would be all the emotions stocked for years going out.

So I wouldn't be upset or shocked if they had John punching Sherlock. Though i'd then hope for a hug or sweet words, but I don't think it's gonna happen. Shame...

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