Ooh, this looks interesting! As are some of the comments: will there be a TARDIS in the background, will Sherlock see movement out of the corner of his eye while passing a graveyard with stone angels...
I loved that trailer. It's so nice to be excited about Sherlock again. I didn't love S3, though I didn't hate it as much as many people did. Anyway I'd a million times rather watch a cracky Victorian AU, or whatever this is going to be, than anything about John and Mary and their marriage and their baby.
That's the thing. I don't love John/Mary (I like Mary, and I could live with the pairing if Moffat hadn't been shipteasing us with John/Sherlock since the first episode), but I hate baby storylines. Especially in this context, where there are three options:
1) John stops having adventures with Sherlock in order to be a responsible father and not leave his child an orphan. This is boring.
2) John keeps having life-threatening adventures. This makes John a dickhead, a bad father and a bad husband.
3) The baby dies, and probably Mary as well. This is just gross as a storytelling choice. (Mary dying in the Doyle canon is different, because women still quite often died in childbirth and people in general died of what are now easily treatable conditions. It was a thing that could easily happen, not implausible manufactured angst for the main character.)
You and me both about baby plots. They're never good, and I LOATHE, LOATHE, LOATHE childbirth scenes with the heat of a red giant.
Do you watch Downton Abbey? A character is pregnant and I'm so pissed off, especially when they've put this character through absolute shit. I want to shake her and tell her that this means that she, the baby, or her husband will die. Because that's what they do on DA. [stab]
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But yes, so looking forward to it!
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1) John stops having adventures with Sherlock in order to be a responsible father and not leave his child an orphan. This is boring.
2) John keeps having life-threatening adventures. This makes John a dickhead, a bad father and a bad husband.
3) The baby dies, and probably Mary as well. This is just gross as a storytelling choice. (Mary dying in the Doyle canon is different, because women still quite often died in childbirth and people in general died of what are now easily treatable conditions. It was a thing that could easily happen, not implausible manufactured angst for the main character.)
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Do you watch Downton Abbey? A character is pregnant and I'm so pissed off, especially when they've put this character through absolute shit. I want to shake her and tell her that this means that she, the baby, or her husband will die. Because that's what they do on DA. [stab]
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I'd go for the Doctor taking them back to help Jenny and Vastra, but hey!
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Mind you we are not the only ones to think that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw
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