There are lots of people in happy marriages who turn out to have terrible secrets or to have done some awful deed in the past that must be paid for in the present. In Doyle’s stories, those are the ghosts you need to worry about.

Mark Gatiss, 2012, x

One can read this in connection with the special but it makes an awful lot of sense for series 3. And probably series 4 as well. 

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the trailer: a transcript

sherlock: i love the sound of my own deep velvety voice reciting poetic non-sequiturs
victorian woman: THERE’S A CASE
john: yeah, holmes, let’s talk about the case
sherlock: who care I HAVE A PAST WATSON I AM AT WAR
john: what past what made you this way
sherlock: oh watson, i cut myself off from feelings to protect myself from my love for you
john: 1895 *bursts into flames*
victorian woman: WHO ARE YOU?
sherlock: i’m sherlock holmes, both the iconic character oft misinterpreted as an unfeeling machine in the public imagination and a modern phenomenon who will finally be allowed to love in a popular adaptation of ACD’s stories currently airing on the BBC
john: WEAR THE DAMN HAT, YOU’VE SAID TOO MUCH.

There is little use in us standing here in the dark. After all, this is the 19th century.

John Watson in the Sherlock Special Trailer

I AM SCREAMING

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