Wow, that statement there baffles me even more than if he had said it would be the last one. I can't wrap my head around anything that could happen within the show that would explain "why it's not gonna happen again in the same regularity". 

mrshouse wrote:

Wow, that sounds irritating...
I think that is not "only" some major character death. That sounds truly more like something like for example John or Sherlock are just mind palace or something....

Please god no..................................
I'm still hanging on to the fact that the creators said they have S5 mapped out.  I don't think they would do anything to to entirely bizaar. 

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Vhanja wrote:

I don't think Sherlock or John being just mind palace would be "dreams coming true" for Moftiss. 

 
Yeah, you have a point there. Still... I try to imagine a story line that is so hard to pick up again? I mean, in S3 we already went on from the scheme "baddy of the week", didn't we? Maybe -alas- it has to do with Sherley Watson and the difficulty is just scheduling according to the child growing and developing stuff.

I know, but what COULD it be??

It also cannot be the old "harder and harder to schedule Ben and Martin" because that has nothing to do with the storyline....

Yes, some of his other comments hinted at it being something monumental, something ending, and something "difficult to move on from".   I'm not worried - as you say, this is clearly not about organising people's schedules, but about something that happens in the show, at the end of S4.

I'm absolutely intrigued and quite excited.  I agree that it's not as simple as a character death, although that could be involved.   It could be something like jumping quite far ahead in time, for example, to when Sherlock is in his 50s or 60s (or even way back into the past, changing everything we know).  (Setlock might be relevant, but I don't want to discuss that in a non-spoiler thread!  In fact, it might be fun to have this discussion in a spoiler thread too!). 

Anyway, I'm sure Moftiss do have a plan about how to move on from the end of S4, but of course they're not going to tell us, and perhaps they haven't told Benedict yet either.   This only makes me more excited!  I have a feeling this may be connected to the "groundbreaking" "television history" element that was talked about.

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But aging characters with make-up isn't groundbreaking? That has been done countless times before. And having them actually age together, making the series of the next couple of decades wouldn't be something for S4 (as that is the season they say is groundbreaking).

tonnaree wrote:

Well, you know they only give Benedict limited information because he is such a horrible fibber. 
 

Fans going:

"Fibbing, Ben." 

I do agree that having them age with the characters would be groundbreaking (although Harry Potter has already done that, this would be a bit different). I just don't see how that can be done in one season when you need decades for it.

Vhanja wrote:

I do agree that having them age with the characters would be groundbreaking (although Harry Potter has already done that, this would be a bit different). I just don't see how that can be done in one season when you need decades for it.

Well, of course you can't do this in one season. But you can prepare the audience for this at the end of the season, you can hint at it. You can have a last shot which tells the audience something like "Seven years later" and which shows the audience the backs of two men who can be identified as Sherlock and John, but you can't see their faces. Just to give one example. If they wanna do this, it can be done, that's how I see it. And of course you are right, the full impact would not come immediately but years later, when S5 airs. Nevertheless, in retrospect it would be a pretty unique thing.