Apr 13, 2017
The game is afoot! <- Was that the original dialogue that was cut from the very end of TFP?
"But we did actually have some dialogue that was going to follow it and we realized as soon it was all coming together that it was incredibly eloquent and it told you everything you needed to know... the music speaks for everything. [...] We don't know if they made that last step". ~ Mark Gatiss on the last scene of The Final Problem (Sherlock S04E03) at BFI Television Festival 2017 (x)
Does that make TFP a metaphorical or literal bookend / matched episode set to The Abominable Bride (S4E00)? Also, the last step to ... what, exactly?