So, let me see if I got this right:

ramblings-from-yours-truly:

We guessed about the special being a gothic Victorian fantasy inside of Sherlock’s mind palace



We guessed about the MP fantasy being set in the few minutes between Sherlock’s takeoff on the plane and Sherlock’s return



We guessed about Sherlock resorting to drugs in order to solve the mystery
We guessed about the poor state of John and Mary’s 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 Reichenelefant™, 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 Moriarty’s death (or apparent survival) being explained via the Bride’s death (or apparent survival)

We guessed about Andrew Scott’s reappearance in the special despite his name not showing in the cast list
We guessed about Moriarty being under the Bride’s veil (more like the whole dress)
We guessed about Mofftiss creating divergences from ACD’s canon because there were things that ‘everybody’s been getting wrong’ and ‘need to be fixed’ (aka the Reichenbach Falls Scene That Has Changed Everything™)
We guessed about John and Sherlock having a conversation similar to that of TPLoSH (”Holmes, I hope I’m not being presumptuous, but there have been women in your life?” “The answer is yes… you’re being presumptuous.”), aka the “We Are In The Middle of a Stakeout But Hey Buddy Do You Happen To Want to Fuck People” Scene™
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 something incredibly intimate to do in the Victorian era (as well as them being perfectly comfortable with it)
We guessed about Sherlock’s ‘ghosts’ being Moriarty’s presence haunting his mind (who, by the way, represents his respressed homosexuality and his feelings of love as well as ‘impulses’ towards John).
We guessed about guns being given a very sexual connotation (aka Gun/Dick Comparison Scene™ and Moriarty Gun Blowjob Scene™)
We guessed about a final reference to Sherlock being more comfortable in the 21st century (because he gay as hell), something like ‘maybe in a different time…’, which we also got (”But then, I’ve always known I was a man out of his time”) 

…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
LIKE

This is why I can’t stay away from meta and setlock. It’s like we get to sort of have the show before we have the show, and how else can we bear the wait?

XA