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Old 11-01-2014, 22:47
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Old 11-01-2014, 22:49
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Lestrade dying is untenable - except that now the police - Donovan, guilt ridden and having now abandoned Anderson - might replace him.

Molly dying is untenable - except that Mike works there and can do the same stuff if necessary, in a fictional sort of a way.

John just won't die, it's impossible - he, more than Sherlock in some ways, is the heart of the show.

Mycroft - this is horrendous - he's the one with the international, exciting info, the 'meta' stories, the knowledge and the protection and what gives the series its 'operatic' edge.

To lose Mycroft is too much.

To lose Mrs Hudson is possible, it's horrible, really horrible, but she can be replaced, it'll be a bit of a while to settle in, but it's not impossible.


Mary - here's the thing, it's possible, it's great actually - huge angst for John and Sherlock, years of difficulty about it WHILE they get on with the main deal.

It'll lend a rather horribly angsty edge to it all, but it WON't MEAN that Sherlock and John don't and can't do what they do.

And it gives THEIR relationship another twist, which is fine when a series continues.
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:09
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I don't want any of them to die. Mary's death would have been the least bad option, as it is at least canon for Watson to lose his wife, but not now we know she's pregnant. I'm hoping all this speculation is wrong and nobody dies.

Execpt Anderson, he can die.
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:26
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I don't want any of them to die. Mary's death would have been the least bad option, as it is at least canon for Watson to lose his wife, but not now we know she's pregnant. I'm hoping all this speculation is wrong and nobody dies.

Execpt Anderson, he can die.
But Cheetah, no one will give a shit about Anderson

Mary will lose the baby before she is totally disgraced, and she will be, and then she'll die confessing all, and her love for John... and her affection for Sherlock, which she didn't want to feel, but couldn't help, will get them all through.
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:29
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I don't want any of them to die. Mary's death would have been the least bad option, as it is at least canon for Watson to lose his wife, but not now we know she's pregnant. I'm hoping all this speculation is wrong and nobody dies.

Execpt Anderson, he can die.
When I first noticed that people said that a main character is going to die in the finale, my immediate thought was that it's goodbye Mary then. As simple as that.

But Stephen Moffat apparently said that the character who dies is the one that people would least expect to die.
That's the only reason why people are considering someone like Mycroft at all.
But if it's someone we'd least expect to die surely that would count Mary out of the picture straight away wouldn't it?
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:43
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I don't want any of them to die. Mary's death would have been the least bad option, as it is at least canon for Watson to lose his wife, but not now we know she's pregnant. I'm hoping all this speculation is wrong and nobody dies.

Execpt Anderson, he can die.
I thought Anderson was reluctant to bring down Sherlock. It was the female detective who had it in for him from the start.
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:44
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When I first noticed that people said that a main character is going to die in the finale, my immediate thought was that it's goodbye Mary then. As simple as that.

But Stephen Moffat apparently said that the character who dies is the one that people would least expect to die.
That's the only reason why people are considering someone like Mycroft at all.
But if it's someone we'd least expect to die surely that would count Mary out of the picture straight away wouldn't it?
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Old 11-01-2014, 23:58
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But Cheetah, no one will give a shit about Anderson
That's the point.

I think Moffat's lying with his comment about the character you least expect, because that would be Sherlock. Unless Sherlock is about to die and they're all lying about making a series 4.
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Old 12-01-2014, 00:23
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That's the point.

I think Moffat's lying with his comment about the character you least expect, because that would be Sherlock. Unless Sherlock is about to die and they're all lying about making a series 4.
Shhhh baby, it's all going to be alright, even if it's sort of not...

Mycroft will NEVER die, he's the one that makes sherlock important, and also the one I dread losing the most.

Sherlock ain't dying again, it will piss me off off, and I'm a fan but not a MADFAN. They won't do that.
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Old 12-01-2014, 00:27
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I thought Anderson was reluctant to bring down Sherlock. It was the female detective who had it in for him from the start.
They BOTH hated Sherlock - Anderson was constantly called on his ignorance and stupidity forensics wise. Donovan was having an affair with him.

Anderson was as much a part of it as Donovan, that she led it was her position and character.

Anderson has massive GUILT though, because he knows he was wrong, Donovan is a hard nut, and fundamentally thick.
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Old 12-01-2014, 00:32
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I'm liking Anderson in this series.

It feels like he's one of us in a way.
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Old 12-01-2014, 04:31
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If John dies and Mary survives, there will at least be a Watson to go along with Holmes... If.
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Old 12-01-2014, 06:05
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If John dies and Mary survives, there will at least be a Watson to go along with Holmes... If.
Don't worry people. Because what you say would make it technically possible to continue (sort of) with Sherlock and Watson.

I don't think that they'd do that to us though. I hope not anyway. You've even got me worried.

It's today now. It's almost on us.
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Old 12-01-2014, 07:50
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I don't want any of them to die. Mary's death would have been the least bad option, as it is at least canon for Watson to lose his wife, but not now we know she's pregnant. I'm hoping all this speculation is wrong and nobody dies.

Execpt Anderson, he can die.

But do we really know she is?
She may have showed signs of pregnancy, in order for Sherlock to believe that she is. And because of that, he will have his guard down (in her mind). Sherlock thinking that "oh, she is with child, she is not the evil mastermind I thought she was."

But he is not fooled, of course, just pretending to be.
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Old 12-01-2014, 07:54
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Shhhh baby, it's all going to be alright, even if it's sort of not...

Mycroft will NEVER die, he's the one that makes sherlock important, and also the one I dread losing the most.

Sherlock ain't dying again, it will piss me off off, and I'm a fan but not a MADFAN. They won't do that.
God, yes, I love that man! In a completely non-romantic way. If my husband is to see this
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Old 12-01-2014, 08:33
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Remember that conversation with Major Sholto as the latter was about to kill himself. Can't recall it verbatim but the Major observed that he and Sherlock were alike in that both recognised that when the time came, it was right and proper to embrace death.

I suspect those lines were brimming with meaning beyond that episode.
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Old 12-01-2014, 08:59
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Personally I do not think anyone is going to die. I think the whole die thing is a red fish.
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Old 12-01-2014, 09:51
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The owner of the fish & chip shop?
What about his shelves?
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:19
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I've been wondering if "sometimes somebody has to die"..

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Whatever happens, I'm really hoping that the BBC can manage to let the end credits roll on through to the end without talking all over them. There have been several indications that the credits are really important in this episode, and not to be missed. Maybe there is a short scene just as they finish?

I remember a couple of years ago, at a really important point in Doctor Who, a little cartoon Graham Norton came walking across the screen as an advert for the next programme, and it would be awful if something distracting happened on the Sherlock finale.
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:26
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If anyone is going to die it should be Mary...in the original stories she had died before Holmes "returned from the dead" and there was passing reference to two more Watson wives before the last Conan Doyle story was written
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:27
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In the DS teasers it says "At least one significant character dies"
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Old 12-01-2014, 10:33
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In the DS teasers it says "At least one significant character dies"
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:20
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As long as Mary's the one to die I can cope
So excited for tonight
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:51
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In the DS teasers it says "At least one significant character dies"
... but is swiftly brought back to life by Watson.
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Old 12-01-2014, 13:06
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I hope it's Mary!

No-0ne else!
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