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This promotional photo was released for Sherlock, which made me think a thing or two. My very impressive arrow skills aside, notice how it's only Sherlock, John, and Molly who are looking "straight" at us, and the rest are not. It's a given that Sherlock considers John his only friend, but we also know that Sherlock told Molly that "I need you". Is this telling something, them looking at us? DI Lestrade and Mary are looking to the right side of the photo, to their lefts. While Greg is posed more casually and is looking somewhere more distant, notice how Mary is looking at the distance too, but her face is slightly tilted in a way as if it wants to point to Mycroft but doesn't. Greg's hands are just in his pockets, but why are Mary's hands twisted? A look at the idiomatic meaning of a twisted hand/arm tells us that it is an idiomatic expression which means "to pressure someone (Fig. on the image of hurting someone until they agree to cooperate.)" (TheFreeDictionary.com). Is Mary pressured, and about what? Another is how Mrs. Hudson looks directly at John, and Mycroft looks directly at Sherlock, as if the two are "watching over" them. Mrs. Hudson's look is more inquisitive though, while Mycroft's is more condescending. But of all people, why choose these two to stare at our main characters? Remember how in the Season 4 trailer, a scene shows Mrs. Hudson telling Mycroft in the face "you reptile!". Can be this be due to Mrs. Hudson's attachment to John and Sherlock, and Mycroft probably doing something that endangers one of them, or the both of them? It can also be seen that Mrs. Hudson is holding tea. A reference to the first episode, A Study in Pink, when she offered a cuppa? Probably, but tea is also part of an idiom once searched online, and means "Let's gossip. This meaning comes from "tea" to mean juicy information. In that sense, "time for tea" ultimately means scurrilous gossiping: time to spill the beans on something. You can give tea or spill tea." A probable symbolism of the new villain's threat of Sherlock needing to say his "deepest darkest secret", and him spilling it out? Or maybe I'm just really looking forward to Season 4. What do you think?