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

**Posted by KeepersPrice** November 11, 2015 6:51 pm

OK, my new theory about the Special and how there can be a Victorian time warp. It involves the ultimate Moftiss conceit.

Two modern day TV show writers, who also happen to be Sherlock fanboys, meet on a train and begin discussing making a Sherlock Holmes adaptation and promoting it to the BBC. The Special is their creative imagining - which we get to see played out on the screen.

This could be the show as it would have been had it not brought into the modern era

**Posted by ukaunz** November 11, 2015 8:00 pm

Ha! I can see them doing that!

**Posted by besleybean** November 11, 2015 8:13 pm

I would love that!

**Posted by KeepersPrice** November 12, 2015 3:30 am

And the Special ends with the BBC saying they really like the concept but Sherlock Holmes adaptations have been done to death. Can't they come up with a new twist - like, maybe setting it in the 21st Century? And the rest, as they say, is history....

**Posted by Schmiezi** November 12, 2015 5:03 am

What a great idea!

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 12, 2015 5:04 am

Awh yes! A true meta episode. I love it!

**Posted by tobeornot221b** November 12, 2015 5:58 am

Very clever indeed, KP! I can already picture that.

**Posted by besleybean** November 12, 2015 6:42 am

See, Mark and Steven can just rest on their laurels and let the fans write Sherlock for them....oh no, what am I saying?! Tee Hee.

**Posted by SusiGo** November 12, 2015 7:39 am

Brilliant idea, KP!

**Posted by gently69** November 12, 2015 10:02 am

Yeah, KP, that could it be indeed... they way it went.

**Posted by Solenn** November 12, 2015 3:24 pm

KeepersPrice wrote:
And the Special ends with the BBC saying they really like the concept but Sherlock Holmes adaptations have been done to death. Can't they come up with a new twist - like, maybe setting it in the 21st Century? And the rest, as they say, is history....

What do you mean?

**Posted by besleybean** November 12, 2015 4:37 pm

Er, well we now have a 21st century version!

**Posted by mrshouse** November 13, 2015 8:20 am

Forgive me if this has been mentioned already, but considering what has been said lately for example by Steven Moffatt -that it was an aim to make the women more important and able to speak up *wildly paraphrazing here*- and the importance of the year 1895... That made me thinking: movement of the suffragettes maybe? We also had the meta discussing the involvement of the women working in the match industries. I read on wikipedia a bit about the suffragettes and somehow it rang a bell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette
It covers not only the movement in Great Britain though. And I cannot really draw a connection to some SH story. But please look at the pictures at the bottom, there's the one which reminds me of Mary's costume, second row, on the right.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** November 13, 2015 8:39 am

Mrshouse, that for me sheds a whole new light to the "Those gentlemen" line!

**Posted by ukaunz** November 13, 2015 9:22 am

I just happened to watch "The Golden Pince Nez" (Granada series) today, and it featured Suffragettes (although it turned it to be irrelevant to the mystery). Everything is canon, as Moftiss say

**Posted by mrshouse** November 13, 2015 9:35 am

Interesting, ukaunz, I have to read that again.

**Posted by ukaunz** November 14, 2015 3:58 am

mrshouse, I don't think the suffragettes were in the original ACD story, I think it was added in to the Granada adaptation to pad the story out a bit

**Posted by nakahara** November 16, 2015 8:35 pm

A theory concerning the role of the bride in a ShSpesh:

http://cosmoglaut.tumblr.com/post/131961684038

**Posted by ukaunz** November 17, 2015 5:03 am

Interesting. Where did they get the name Emilia Ricoletti from? Setlock? Just wondering...

**Posted by SusiGo** November 17, 2015 7:58 am

Probably from this tweet:

https://twitter.com/Ruther2/status/577513330396499968