The Final Problem

hunterinbakerstreet:

I don’t know why there’s this animosity between the original Sherlock fans, the movie fans, the BBC sherlock fans and the Elementary fans.

It doesn’t matter.

Either way Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will hate you

We’re all arguing over who can make him hate us the most.

John Watson, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger:

When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings, it will be clear that I have a mass of material at my command.

I don’t remember why this was in my drafts folder. Probably something about the years.

Here, have some years.

liaduval:

the only thing I want…THE ONLY THING! is for Gregson and Lestrade to appear in an episode together, be snarky at each other and secretly fight for Sherlock´s favour. Damnit, that would be awesome.

canonfodderfriday:

Title: The Adventure of the Red Circle

Published: 1911

Collection: His Last Bow

First paragraph:

“Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage me.” So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material.

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Now that they’ve announced the second episode of Series 3 will be called The Sign of Three, I want to go ahead and say: yep, I was way off on my guess about “wedding.” I thought they were trolling the fandom a bit, but if they give the episode that title and it isn’t based on The Sign of Four then they’re just wasting everyone’s time now. (I don’t mind the Mary Morstan thing at all, but I have to admit I’m disappointed that we may be losing the chance to see some of the other more interesting canon wedding stories. Unless they combine stories.)

And I’d previously changed my mind and decided The Giant Rat of Sumatra was more likely for “rat” than I’d initially given it credit for.

But if everything does turn out to be the most obvious, least-canonical guess for the three words, then we come to “bow” where my thought was that they’d base it on the obvious story (His Last Bow) but veer off sharply from canon. I’m not sure how to be wrong about this one yet, BUT I’LL FIND A WAY.