BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / What is the Special about? (Spoilers)

**Posted by nakahara** December 10, 2015 8:34 am

Perfection, indeed!

**Posted by SusiGo** December 10, 2015 8:43 am

They are just beautiful.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** December 10, 2015 8:47 am

I have no doubts I'll enjoy!

**Posted by ukaunz** December 10, 2015 9:48 am

Article in the new issue (issue 2) of Crime Scene Magazine

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**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** December 10, 2015 10:11 am

Thank you for posting that! It was a great read!

But... but... Billy?!?

**Posted by SusiGo** December 22, 2015 10:33 am

Warning - this link contains spoilers. I know this is a spoiler thread but it gives indeed some things away and you can deduce something about the structure of the episode from it. I think it is amazing and just what some of us hoped for.

http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/sherlock-abominable-bride-2015

**Posted by Vhanja** December 22, 2015 10:40 am

Spoiler, spoiler! (From Susi's link).

"sight of a man kicking another man off a high ledge and into a waterfall"

Don't tell me this story will end with Holmes' original "death", that will be too painful!

Last edited by Vhanja (December 22, 2015 10:41 am)

**Posted by SusiGo** December 22, 2015 10:44 am

I think so. And the shot in the shoulder could be John in Afghanistan. They will give us the whole story from the beginning, set up in a Victorian mind palace, maybe with Moriarty's faked death as well (a man shooting himself "apparently" in the head). And the long talk about drugs might refer to a deleted scene from TPLoSh where Holmes and Watson discuss his drug addiction and Watson threatens to move out if Holmes does not give up the cocaine.

Btw, if everyone is fine with discussing this openly, please say so. Then we do not need the spoilers tags.

Last edited by SusiGo (December 22, 2015 10:45 am)

**Posted by mrshouse** December 22, 2015 11:26 am

Wow....
That seems to be a lot of stuff wrapped up in one.
Exciting

**Posted by Ivy** December 22, 2015 11:36 am

oh wow, sounds cool. I'm still not that excited about the special, but it's interesting to see how this will work out.

**Posted by mrshouse** December 22, 2015 11:38 am

Ivy wrote:
oh wow, sounds cool. I'm still not that excited about the special, but it's interesting to see how this will work out.

Because it postpones S4?

**Posted by SusiGo** December 22, 2015 11:39 am

I do not think it does. As far as I know, there never was a decision of making series 4 OR the special. The special was an extra since they was not enough time for making series 4 in 2015.

**Posted by mrshouse** December 22, 2015 11:42 am

Yes, that might be true.
Does anybody know where I can find those edgy brackets for the spoiler tag on my keyboard???

**Posted by SusiGo** December 22, 2015 11:44 am

On my keyboard it is option + 5 for the starting bracket and option + 6 for the end bracket. If you have a different keyboard, just google it.

**Posted by mrshouse** December 22, 2015 11:47 am

No, that doesn't work.
Will join later again.

**Posted by Ivy** December 22, 2015 12:04 pm

mrshouse wrote:
Because it postpones S4?

Mainly because I don't need a Victorian special, the reason why I like this show so much is that's not in that era like every other SH production is. But of course I understand that this is exciting for Mofftiss.
Maybe it did postpone it a bit, at least the preparation time for the special delayed the prep. time for S4 but on the whole I don't think so. Filming S4 will take about three month and I there wasn't time for that in 2015.

**Posted by SolarSystem** December 22, 2015 12:10 pm

Ivy wrote:
Mainly because I don't need a Victorian special, the reason why I like this show so much is that's not in that era like every other SH production is. But of course I understand that this is exciting for Mofftiss.

Wow, my thoughts exactly.

**Posted by SusiGo** December 22, 2015 12:23 pm

I find it very exciting to use the Victorian episode as a Mind Palace to explain or solve things from the present time. I hope that it will really happen. The chances are not too bad.

**Posted by SolarSystem** December 22, 2015 12:44 pm

I'm definitely open to be positively surprised.

**Posted by tonnaree** December 22, 2015 1:02 pm

I didn't think I could be more excited. *bouncy bouncy*