So, let me see if I got this right:
We guessed about the special being a gothic Victorian fantasy inside of Sherlockās mind palace
We guessed about the MP fantasy being set in the few minutes between Sherlockās takeoff on the plane and Sherlockās return
We guessed about Sherlock resorting to drugs in order to solve the mystery
We guessed about the poor state of John and Maryās marriage (to the point that she first appears dressed in mourning clothes while visiting her husband, who has left her in order to live with Sherlock again)
We guessed about the mentions of Redbeard
We guessed about the visit to the Diogenes Club
We guessed about Fat!Mycroft
We guessed about there being a literal elephant in the room and it being gotten rid of (aka Reichenelefantā¢, BYE FELICIA)
We guessed about the shameless amount of green everywhere (AHEM Sherlock wearing a completely green outfit, AHEM), which was a very gay color back in the time (especially when combined with a clean-shaven face)
We guessed about Moriartyās death (or apparent survival) being explained via the Brideās death (or apparent survival)
We guessed about Andrew Scottās reappearance in the special despite his name not showing in the cast list
We guessed about Moriarty being under the Brideās veil (more like the whole dress)
We guessed about Mofftiss creating divergences from ACDās canon because there were things thatĀ āeverybodyās been getting wrongā and āneed to be fixedā (aka the Reichenbach Falls Scene That Has Changed Everythingā¢)
We guessed about John and Sherlock having a conversation similar to that of TPLoSH (āHolmes, I hope Iām not being presumptuous, but there haveĀ been women in your life?āĀ āThe answer is yes⦠youāre being presumptuous.ā), aka the āWe Are In The Middle of a Stakeout But Hey Buddy Do You Happen To Want to Fuck Peopleā Sceneā¢
We guessed about Moriarty being finally dead after all
We guessed about Victorian!John and Victorian!Sherlock calling each other by their first names, which is somethingĀ incredibly intimate to do in the Victorian era (as well as them being perfectly comfortable with it)
We guessed about SherlockāsĀ āghostsā being Moriartyās presence haunting his mind (who, by the way, represents his respressed homosexuality and his feelings of love as well as āimpulsesā towards John).
We guessed about guns being given a very sexual connotation (aka Gun/Dick Comparison Scene⢠and Moriarty Gun Blowjob Sceneā¢)
We guessed about a final reference to Sherlock beingĀ more comfortable in the 21st century (because he gay as hell), something likeĀ āmaybe in a different timeā¦ā, which we also got (āBut then, Iāve always known I was a man out of his timeā)Ā
ā¦and we got all of this from a total of three minutes worth of footage from the special (in the form of trailers and pictures), a couple of shady tweets and whatever little info we could scrape from any other declaration made by the writers, director, cast or whoever.
AND YET YOU TRY TO TELL US THAT WE ARE GOING ABOUT THE ABUNDANT SUBTEXT ALL WRONG AND THAT JOHNLOCK IS NOTHING BUT A FIGMENT OF OUR WILD FANGIRL IMAGINATIONS