#thelostspecial

[mama-orion]

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Chapters: 18/27 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Eurus, Sherrinford Holmes, Mary Morstan, Greg Lestrade, Mummy Holmes, Daddy Holmes, Harry Watson, Culverton Smith Additional Tags: S4 fix-it fic, nothing was as it seemed, Unreliable Narrator, John's alibi theory, Sherlock and John were in cahoots against Mary the whole time, Villain!Mary, TFP was John's coma dream, John's Mind Bungalow, Eurus is a liar, she's not The Other One, there is an Other One though, sherrinford, Redbeard - Freeform, Redbeard was a dog after all, Misunderstandings, alternating povs, Friends to Lovers, Missing Scenes, Happy Ending Summary:

Sherrinford is not really the name of some high security prison. That was just a figment of John’s frantic coma dream. And Eurus is not actually Sherlock’s sister. That’s just something random she said to John before shooting him. Sherlock and John were never actually estranged. That was just their act to cover up what really happened to Mary – or Rosamund Moran, as her real name has turned out to be. Sherlock does have a secret sibling, though, and his name is Sherrinford.

After finally eliminating Moran – though in a rather dramatically different way than they had envisioned – and exposing the truth about Eurus, John encourages Sherlock to delve into his past and to find out whether the reasons to keep Sherrinford away from Sherlock were the right ones, and to discover what really happened in 1981. Along the way, Sherlock and John gradually, finally, stop keeping each other at a distance, and eventually become a proper family of their own. __________________ The only good thing about being down with a cold is how much wonderful fic writing I’ve gotten to loll in and scream about lately. Huge, exuberant kudos to @shirleycarlton whose brilliant s4 fixit weaves excellent johnlock sense into the show’s confusion. With each passing chapter we get to feast on more of her wonderfully, uniquely developed characters, tender revelations, and totally engrossing storyline. Please, go read it from cover to cover and leave her juicy comments so she’ll write more!

[cumberblocked]

If you’re looking to sleep peacefully now that season 4 has come and gone...

Before you scroll past!! For Sherlock fans, the title can be a red flag, but the author spends almost the whole video pointing out how Sherlock, Dr. Who, and Jekyll and Hyde fans have been wronged by Moffat’s manipulative writing style, and he never goes into blaming anyone for liking it.

 I love Sherlock. I really do. I think everyone on my dashboard should watch this video regardless, especially the Tinhatters and the TJLC believers. It’s an investment, it takes some time to watch, but it is so worth it.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

I'm so tired but part of me still wants to believe. I think everyone's putting their hope in the Contact twitter accounts? What happened to the lost special? What happened with that mysterious website?

Hi Nonny!

Yeah, I think so at this point. Fan run or not, they are rather lovely. Thelostspecial.com was fake and it was a “fan” who thought it would be hilarious to shit on Johnlockers... who also had an odd amount of knowledge about our fandom and the things associated with it for someone who claimed they never were a fan – it lead some to believe that it was part of the ARG.

[angels-in-overcoats]

thelostspecial.com

/sherlock or /sherlockholmes or /johnwatson

/mycroft or /mycroftholmes

/molly or /mollyhooper

/lestrade or /greglestrade

/moriarty or /thefinalproblem

/eurus or /eurusholmes

/norbury

/ireneadler

/mary

/marymorstan

/muderousmary

/marymoran

/cluedo

/elephant

/teatime

/coffee

/tiehell

/ineedhelp

/solveme

/johnlock or /tjlc

/xxx

/new

/thereichenbachfall

/hislastvow

/thegreatgame

/januscars

/dymm

/old

All the pages I’ve found on thelostspecial.com so far. Will update when more come to light. 

UPDATE: Most of these pages are now blank

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

images from thelostspecial.com

under the cut because there’s quite a lot

that image above is the header for the whole website. in the homepage(?) this image is there with nothing else

EDIT: @johnloquial-sherlockian pointed out that if you up the exposure you can see this

the tv has “miss me?” on top, the wall on the right has a faint number 40 in green and in case you haven’t noticed before, the elephant image is much clearer here and is the same as the image that appears at /murderousmary

if you open the photo in another tab this is what it looks like. I’m assuming that date just means it was uploaded this month. and then it’s called teatime? 

this is what comes up when you do a reverse image search. I’ll look at these things for each image i know of.

when you go to /tjlc this image shows up. it has intentionally been put there because if the page doesn’t exist nothing at all comes up:

the image is named tjlc

this is what you get when you reverse search that photo. the movie there looks weirdly apt if you want to look up the synopsis

if you highlight the page you can see text that was previously invisible against the background

the previous link goes to /elephant and the next goes to /johnlock

this seems like they made this image specifically for this

at /johnlock we get this

okay so from /johnlock we have links again (also some from /elephant but i’ll come back to that)

previous goes back to /tjlc and next goes to /ireneadler

this page also has links. previous goes back to /johnlock and next goes to /marymorstan

from here the next links to /marymoran .... weird

the next links to /sherlock, but before i go there i’d like to point out that from /elephant the next links to /mary ...... again, weird

these last two images don’t find much on google so again they must have been created for this site

before we get to /sherlock, another odd this is that it went /elephant -> /mary but then in /mary it says that /elephant is next, and previous actually links to /coffee

“wrong way!”? that’s funny because technically that link did go in the wrong direction... 

that photo must be a screencap from the show but i don’t particularly recognise it - it’s odd framing and i’m sure i’ve not seen screencaps of it shared around. might not mean anything but i found it weird

the previous link from /coffee goes to /teatime

the next from here goes to /coffee - definitely the wrong way 

the previous goes to /murderousmary. i’m starting to sense a pattern here

did she- did she kill an elephant????? ok then

next goes to /teatime again

previous goes to /solveme

dancing man code!!!!!! i’ll do my best to solve it here but apologies if i get it wrong:

“ise eyo ustan dlik egreyhound si nth eslipsstrinin gupo nth estart”

at first i thought this is encoded in itself but you can actually just move the word breaks: “i see you stand like greyhounds in the slips strining upon the start”

EDIT: this is a shakespeare quote

this is the “one more unto the breach” speech that is quoted in TLD

anyway, the previous from /solveme is /cropped-cropped-black-1-jpg

it’s just a black image against a black background and i cant see anything more to it

i realise i must be going in the wrong direction here but the previous from there is /cropped-black-1-jpg

again i can’t see anything more here

previous goes to /cropped-black-jpg

this is another plain black image - but this one has a different date on it

further down this page you can leave a comment

previous is /black where there is another plain black image and a comments section below

from /black it only links to /cropped-black - no more leads to follow here.

so i’ll go back to where we left off at /sherlock earlier

honestly i’ve never read the text of the article in the show before so i don’t know if this has been edited or its always sounded so homoerotic but it’s here

next goes to /johnwatson

next goes to /sherlockholmes

next goes to /mycroftholmes

next goes to /mycroft

next goes to /mollyhooper

next goes to /molly

next goes to /lestrade

next goes to /greglestrade

next /moriarty

next /thefinalproblem

next /hislastvow

thats um. pretty creepy

next /thegreatgame

next /eurus

next /eurusholmes

next /thereichenbachfall

next /tiehell

now i know they stalk our blogs but.... they know about tie hell...... they know..

next /januscars

next /norbury

there’s no links to another page from here.

other people found /xxx

from here there’s a previous link that goes to /ineedhelp

i’ve seen people discuss about how i trf at exactly 40 minutes moriarty says the good old fashioned villain line

previous /ineedahint

has the same image as above

previous /ineedaclue

same image again

previous /cluedo

“clever but no!”

previous /dymm

previous /old

previous /new

never seen this anywhere before in the show afaik 

this came up when i reverse image searched - if anyone knows anything about this image please lmk

previous /norbury, which we’ve already seen. so that’s all there is to see for now - if you know about any other pages or notice anything i missed please let me know

[lostspecial-blog]

Sherlock: The real ‘lost special’

Okay, this is officially my first post on tumblr because I believe that the following is very important after watching the ‘final’ episode of Sherlock Season 4.

A few hours before the airing of TFP we get this article on radio times:

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-01-15/steven-moffat-responds-to-fan-theory-about-a-secret-fourth-sherlock-episode

The important part is the last half of the article:

‘“Must be something comforting about the number three,” says Sherlock. “People always give up after three...” before revealing that he has hidden another device in the walking stick John brought into the room earlier.Knowing that they might not be able to get the increasingly busy Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman back together to shoot more Sherlock for the foreseeable future, did show creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat take the opportunity to film an extra episode while they had the chance?If so, when would it air?’

Okay, nothing new there but then it comes:

‘The schedules for Sunday 22nd January show that BBC1 has something called Apple Tree Yard on at 9pm. But then if they wanted to keep the secret, the Sherlock team would hardly advertise it in the listings would they? And anyway, perhaps they’re saving it as a surprise for later in the year.So is this a possibility? Could there really be a fourth episode of Sherlock series four, a farewell gift to fans?Well, no... not according to Steven Moffat, who was unequivocal when the question was put to him.“It doesn’t reflect the fact that there’s gong to be a fourth episode – for heaven’s sake, what kind of secrets do you think we’re keeping?!"Let’s go home and check. Oh look episode four… the lost special..."‘

Let’s look at that sentence again: ‘The schedules for Sunday 22nd January show that BBC1 has something called Apple Tree Yard on at 9pm.’

So the supposedly last episode of Sherlock S4 just aired and there was no mention of an additional episode before less alone a possible date for it and now radio times publishes an article that links Sherlock to the yet to be aired BBC mini series Apple Tree Yard.

Note that is is the only source out there that makes a connection between Sherlock S4 and Apple Tree Yard.

So what do we get when we search for Apple Tree Yard on the BBC’s website?

Just one episode is listed for 22 January at exactly 9 pm. Even though the mini series is supposed to have 4 episodes in total.

Does the number 4 ring a bell, anyone?

And now have a look at the content description of Apple Yard Tree’s first episode:

I mean, come on, a doctor? An enigmatic stranger? More is at play (’It’s not a game anymore’)? This could be literally taken out of Sherlock.

And what are the names of the two leading actors in this book adaption? (That by the way is described on Amazon.com as ‘suspenseful, erotically charged, and masterfully paced (...) intelligent psychological thriller about desire and its consequences’)

The doctor is played by Emily Watson and the enigmatic stranger by Ben Chaplin.

It may seem far-fetched to assume that they would fake a trailer and pay actors to stay quiet about pretending to have played a mini series when nothing but the trailer actually happened in reality BUT.

But you never know with the producers of this show, do you?

My (very strong) guess is: Next Sunday we are going to see the ‘lost special’ that is going to make history.

I mean, let’s face it. Today’s episode was not ‘television history’.

But hiding a 4th additional episode in ‘plain sight’ by disguising it as an episode of a mini series with a plot description that very well plays into the ‘insane wish fullfilment’ we have been promised? That’s genius.

“I think you draw the eye with disguise,” Gatiss agreed. “It goes right back to the first series – ‘the element of disguise is learning how to hide in plain sight’ is what Sherlock says, and that’s exactly what it’s all about

(Source: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-01-12/how-the-sherlock-creators-hid-the-lying-detectives-massive-twist)

I could be totally wrong but then again I might not.

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Also, please let me tag you great meta finders as well: @deducingbbcsherlock, @loudest-subtext-in-tv, @inevitably-johnlocked

[rowanthestrange]

Are we all reasonably firm that:

“You see but do not observe” and 13-9-16 is referring to Matthew 13:9-16

Matthew 13:9-16, English Standard Version (ESV)

9 He who has ears, let him hear.”

The Purpose of the Parables

10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,    and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

15 For this people's heart has grown dull,    and with their ears they can barely hear,    and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes    and hear with their ears and understand with their heart    and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

[abouthetwofthem]

Can we talk about the fact that this is the default error page (I wrote nonsense letters after the “/” to get it):

But if you write “tjlc” and “johnlock”, you get this page with a “404 error” picture (clearly loaded by someone, since this is not the default error page):

404.

4 04.

4x04.

(?)