sherlock-overflow-error:

roadswewalk:

simultaneously or alternatively parallels or embodies:

• actually The Lost Special™
• Moriarty convincing the public that Sherlock was a fraud in TRF
• Sherlock faking his death
• The Empty Hearse club that conspired over it
• the story that Sherlock rewrote to have a happier ending in Sumatra
• the hidden, disconnected train car about to blow up the Establishment
• the Waters Gang fooling the cops over and over
• Charlie Welsborough, dead for a while but finally properly understood
• the unmasking of the fake Garrideb and restoration of the real one
• the unveiling of the Elephant in the Room
• Daniel Collard committing suicide to get revenge

• Sherlock doubting reality over being gaslighted (and gassed) in THoB
• Kemp gaslighting Chris Melas over Kratides in The Geek Interpreter
• Moriarty / Eurus dropping a clutch video to save Sherlock’s life
• Sir Edwin retconning a murder to clear the record in HLV
• Emilia Ricoletti who made her death count
• the conspiracy of marginalized people who must be allowed to win
• John’s turn at a TAB-style emotionally-wrought fever dream
• the importance of being Earnest™

  about Johnlock

• the prank played on Mycroft to force the truth
• the doctored and interrupted film that began the prank
• the death of “the author” / Mark / Mycroft
• commandeering the ship to take it where Sherlock and John want to go
• breaking the fourth wall to expose Sherlock’s truth
• the Queer Otherness, accepted with open arms on its own terms
• the silly girl on the plane, finally listened to and brought to safety
• a posthumous video message with a hopeful recasting
• a reenactment of the public outrage over ACD’s The Final Problem

Did I catch them all?  Fandom, you are truly wondrous, and I mean no shade.  This is a legendary effort at media consumption, whether or not the creators ever confirm intention.

YES YES YES

For reference, y’all:

[”The Lost Special”] concerns the baffling disappearance of a privately hired train (a special) on its journey from Liverpool to London on 3 June 1890; besides the train crew of driver, fireman, and train guard the only passengers are two South Americans. The train is confirmed to have passed Kenyon Junction but never have reached Barton Moss. The only clues are the dead body of the engineer found among the train tracks past Kenyon Junction and a letter from the United States that purports to come from one of the missing train crewmen. Authorities fail to discover any traces of the train. A letter to The Times by “an amateur reasoner of some celebrity at that date” is excerpted at one point, the style of which suggests that the author is probably Sherlock Holmes. This “recognized authority upon such matters” suggests that the train and its passengers are destroyed by a criminal organization comparable to Camorra, by first directing into one of the unused tracks of abandoned mines that lay nearby. The proposition meets with heated opposition, although the objectors fail to supply any conceivable alternative. Nevertheless, the responsible authorities do not act on the proposal and the public never shows any interest as a political scandal has already attracted their attention. Eight years later, a criminal mastermind called Herbert de Lernac, scheduled for execution in Marseilles, confesses to the crime, revealing details that are only slightly different from what the amateur sleuth proposed. Herbert suppresses the names of his employers in this confession, but threatens to reveal their names if he is not granted a pardon. (x)