Series/Sherlock

If it is being filmed this year don't expect to see it til jan 2017

Hahahahahaha.

I've seen plenty of works where John is the woman.

Has any of you seen any work, fan work or official, that has Sherlock as the woman?

Well, Vastra and Jenny from Doctor Who are some sort of a gender-flipped version of Sherlock and Watson. Other than that, nothing comes to mind (a pity).

Sherlock as a woman.

Heh.

There was this steampunk retelling in which Mycroft was a woman.

January 2017 is more or less confirmed by HBO. Not as sure as an answer by BBC or the show runners, but I guess we can expect season 4 than.

...HBO doesn't run Sherlock to my knowledge, why can they confirm this

It's a coproduction with PBS, but HBO has been scooping up popular PBS properties because they have the budget for them and PBS doesn't.

PBS can't even afford to make Sesame Street and you think they can afford Sherlock?

I, er, know they can? Since they've been co-paying for it with the BBC? And have been since 2010?

It wasn't that PBS couldn't afford Sesame Street, just that PBS couldn't afford to make Sesame Street the way Sesame Workshop wanted to. I'm sure if the Sesame folks had no ambition whatsoever, continuing on with PBS would've worked out fine.

2010 was 6 years ago.

Have you guys saw this trailer yet? It's got Sherlock Holmes, John Luther from "Luther" and DCI Gibson from "The Fall" and looks fricking awesome from where I'm sitting.

I'd watch a whole series of that.

Regarding the latest episode... am I the only one who thought the whole "cult of hooded women conspiring to kill men to end patriarchal oppression" was just Sherlock's imagination?

I mean, the whole scene was so far over-the-top that I honestly thought that it was supposed to be indicative of modern-day-Sherlock straining so hard to find a solution to the mystery that he could only arrive at an incredibly contrived bullshit explanation involving a secret cult and a huge conspiracy of mysterious hooded figures. I didn't think any of it was real.

Kind of supported by the fact that apparently not finding the body of the duplicate inside the Bride's grave means his whole solution is wrong.

https://swanpride.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/is-it-sexist-the-abominable-bride/

I think there is a true case inbetween, but it is naturally embellished.

It makes more sense to me to assume that the cult of militant suffregettes never existed at all, and Sherlock just made the whole thing up as a way of projecting his personal guilt over the way he's treated the women in his life onto the case. That, and he's desperate not to be outsmarted by Moriarty, so he's willing to believe in even an absolutely ridiculous solution to the parallel case, rather than admit to himself that he can't think of a plausible one.

The cult doesn't seem far fetched to me. But them being a cult rather and a conspiracy is what makes it stretch belief.

Like, if they hadn't gone through the effort in buying a gong and stitching their robes, and just agreed, "Yeah, women need a manufactured scapegoat to allow them to get away with killing their husbands in self defence. To achieve this we will need to stage a highly prolific murder, entice the interest of a prestigious detective, have them become sympathetic to our cause, and then persuade them to publish a false account of the murder so that it is never solved. The controversy and misinformation over the murder case means anyone who emulates it will stump police ability to investigate."

Yeah, I think Emilia Ricoletti came up with a plan to kill the men who wronged her from the grave, but most of the other murders were most likely only copy cats. No need for a cult.

A flaw of the plan is that white wedding dresses were horrifically expensive during the victorian era, and also literally impossible to clean. So everyone wanting to use the bride as a scapegoat would have to buy one of these dresses.

It's an attempt at activisim which doesn't consider the lower class. Which is, yeah pretty representative.

Most of the murders simply had the rice sprinkled about.

Ingenious

A thing to consider is that the end of the episode decides Victorian!Sherlock (and, presumably, all other Sherlocks) are equally real, and has Holmes and Watson discussing the coverup. So that bit, with or without Moriarty, kinda has to have happened.

All stories are real to themselves.

I love that Sherlock has a fightscene inside a painting. That's just, marvellous.

Who's using Moriarity's image

Mycroft and the female minister Sherlock saved from blackmail in his Last Vow

The two of them actually sit down to discuss alternatives to Sherlock going to prison before the scene suddenly cuts away to the air field.