There are a lot of posts floating around right now about the timeline wonk of Sherlock. In a previous post, I had tried to make some sense of it (as best I could) but I feel like it maybe deserves its own post and input from everyone as to how to figure out just where we are in the show.
*Disclaimer: I only added the posts that related to each episode.
From John’s blog
January 2010– First meeting
March 2010– TBB
April 2010– TGG
Sept 2010-March 2011– ASiB
March 2011– THoB
June 2011– TRF
April 2012 or 2013– A New Beginning* It is unclear if this post was made in April 2012 following TRF but it would seem more likely it is 2013 as that would make Sherlock returning 2 years and 4 months after TRF.
Nov 2013– TEH
Aug 2014– TSoT
* I took John at his word and believed when he said Sherlock had let him grieve for two years, so I always went with 2013 as the year, until-
This would have to make John and Mary’s wedding having taken place in 2013, not 2014.
Which ultimately means Sherlock was gone barely 14 months during his hiatus. which, ugh. I don’t know what to make of it all.
Well, we know from TLD that they are rather careless and sloppy with dates (that date/day for CS opening his hospital wing isn’t right if it happened 2014 I think)…
They filmed the wedding at Goldney Hall at the end of April 2013. Perhaps someone just got their calendar out and looked up an upcoming Saturday while making this prop? And, of course, on John’s blog, the wedding took place in August… so…
When I did my visualisation of the order of events, I had to treat props as unreliable – and ignore John’s blog – to make it work. I put up a bunch of comments on my website, if you want to know how my reasoning: http://obotligtnyfiken.se/sherlock-order-of-events/
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