‘Sherlock’ season 4 spoilers: Some elements have been planned for years

While we may not know much officially about the upcoming fourth season of “Sherlock,” apparently co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have done one thing in particular that the title sleuth would certainly appreciate: Hiding some clues and hints as to what the story could be in plain sight, all so that they can frustrate you even more when you actually start to see them.

In speaking out on this matter further, Gatiss commented at a Victoria & Albert Museum members’ talk (per the Radio Times) that there are specifically things that were set in motion a long time ago that have not even been fully discovered yet:

“There are things that come to fruition in this series which we’ve been planning for years … But people also find things that aren’t there. Which is my favourite. And then miss the blindingly obvious things that are there. People read an awful lot into it.”

To us, one of the greater things about the sense of “mystery” and this show is that we don’t think that they are trying to pull an “American Horror Story” and keep things from you about the upcoming story just for the sake of doing so. We do think that there is a method to the particular madness, and that is something that could be all the more interesting to see once some of these secrets and items of season 4 are revealed. They don’t quite care if certain details are figured out in advance, largely because the rest of the story is strong enough to handle them.

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