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— Sherlock Holmes Elementary is an American television series that premiered on on September 27, 2012. It presents a contemporary update of Sir 's detective stories set in.

It stars as Sherlock Holmes and as. This version of Holmes was a consultant for; he became a drug addict following a traumatic loss, then 'hit bottom' and ended up in rehabilitation. Joan Watson has been hired by Holmes' father Morland to be his sober companion, to help him adjust from rehab back to everyday life. Holmes has come up with an interesting post-rehab regimen to keep himself busy — he's going to resume his role as a consultant, this time for the New York police. Watson finds herself coming along for the ride, eventually becoming Holmes' full-fledged partner and a detective in her own right. They are usually assisted by Captain Thomas Gregson (Aidan Quinn) and Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill). Please practice the, and only add tropes as the show airs, with the obvious exceptions.

Warning: Unmarked spoilers. Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.

With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Holmes: There were two pretermitted heirs, Ms. Yvette killed the second one yesterday, so tell me: why was she still in a coma today? Why didn't she 'miraculously' wake up this morning?

Who did she have left to kill? Do you think perhaps it was someone who stood between her and the entirety of the family fortune? • From 'Flight Risk': • 'Are you afraid of flying?' • 'I know about Irene.' Doubles as a.

• From 'The Leviathan': 'Will the next client make you happy?' • From 'Heroine': 'You are afraid of him.'

• From 'The Diabolical Kind': 'That bothers you, doesn't it?' •: Sebastian Moran is a sadist, a monster, a murderer. And an Arsenal fan. •: 'Le Milieu' is actually French slang for organised crime, not the name of the French/Corsican Mafia specifically. •: Crops up from time to time. • Clyde: tortoises/turtles should not be put on their backs because (among other things) the shift in position interferes with breathing and heart function - the waving legs are distress, not dancing. • In 'The One Percent Solution' Holmes describes the gamecocks as being manipulated into fighting by their handlers.

While this has some (but not total) validity re: dog fighting, it is far less applicable to fighting lines of chickens. They're chickens. They barely have enough functioning intelligence to come in out of the rain, much less be conditioned into anything 'abnormal'. Fighting birds are bred for aggression, and while the process Holmes uses (positive re-enforcement/desensitization via food) makes sense, it would take a great deal longer than the few days shown. As a metaphor for Holmes & Lestrade, though, it's awesome.

•: In 'Miss Taken' the impostor 'Cassie' obtains Mina Davenport's DNA by shaving her hair and using it as a prop. But hair doesn't contain DNA, it's made of strands of protein. Only the follicular tags on the end of a hair have DNA (because they're skin cells) and those only come from hairs that fall out or are pulled out, not cut. •: In 'Pilot', Holmes uses these exact words to Joan while explaining why surgeons use beeswax in their hands and why he was able to deduce she was one.

•: • In 'Child Predator' The first kidnapped kid is the one who is torturing and killing other children for sadistic pleasure. • In 'You Do It To Yourself', the victim of the week used to abuse his wife on a daily basis for years. • In 'Dead Man's Switch,' a serial blackmailer currently threatening a rape victim's father with releasing a video of the rape on the Internet. • Subverted in 'Internal Audit.' The victim was a, yes, but he was a guilt-ridden who would have been if he wasn't murdered first, and he.

It turns out his murder had nothing to do with his Ponzi scheme either-he had discovered that the charity was a front for money launderers and wanted to blow the whistle. •: Holmes and Watson's relationship in the series grows into a close friendship and it's evident that they care for each other. Holmes even panics at one moment when he thinks Watson's been shot. • When Joan is kidnapped and held hostage due to Mycroft's actions in Paint it Black, Sherlock is notably distraught and even states that if Joan were to be killed, he would murder Mycroft. By this point in the series, Joan and Sherlock's friendship is very important to both of them. — Paint it Black •: • 'Heroine': • The main plan of Moriarty, where she manipulates an ex-Greek smuggler turned businessman Christos Theophilus by kidnapping his daughter to goad him into assassinating a New York-based Macedonian surgeon named Andrej Bacara and his wife.

With the help of the doctor's bodyguard/mole, the assassination is done so that initial reports suggested that it was done in the name of Greek ultra-nationalism, which would lead to far more bitter diplomatic relations between Greece and Macedonia in the latter's bid to join the European Union, since Bacara was the son of Macedonia's prime minister. • The plan Joan uses to capture Moriarty. Joan knows that Moriarty will go after Sherlock if anything happens to him and crafts the overdose story, deducing all of Moriarty's moves without her noticing. • In 'Blood Is Thicker' Mycroft attempts one on Sherlock to induce him to return to London by saying that their father has threatened to cut him off.

He knows that Sherlock will never directly contact their father and so will never discover the deception. • Mycroft pulls a much better one on everyone in 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' and 'Paint it Black': cultivating an persona and allowing Le Milieu to use Diogenes as a base in the States, utilizing Joan as a hostage and Sherlock's deductive powers to find a highly-sought after list of Swiss bank customers, double-crossing Sherlock before he can bring the NYPD in and going alone to make the exchange for Joan, and finally, when Le Milieu is ready to kill him and Joan, calling in an sniper team to take out Le Milieu. • In 'Bella', Sherlock decides to blackmail Isaac Pike by threatening to send his brother to jail for life if he doesn't turn himself in. Said brother is a drug addict. Isaac reasons that Sherlock would not want to deny another addict a chance at redemption, and will not go through with the threat.

He does not turn himself in. Whether the gambit worked is never shown. •: Isaac Pike from 'Bella'. •: • To Sherlock: Anything relating to Irene Adler and her death. Another button was in 'A Giant Gun, Filled With Drugs' when Rhys tempted Sherlock to take cocaine to help with the case, he threw and nearly strangled the latter while shouting at him for even suggesting such a thing. And in 'Paint It Black', we find out he will seriously threaten to murder his own brother if Joan comes to harm.

• To Joan: Don't even try to even mention her past as a surgeon and her dead patient. Underestimating her job as a sober companion or novice detective is not a good idea either.

•: While Sherlock did originally work with Scotland Yard, he moved across the pond to NYC. •: As of 'M.' , we learn that Moriarty is definitely Holmes' nemesis. •: A severe winter storm takes out the power in New York City in 'Snow Angels'. •: Graham Delancey from 'Poison Pen' killed his sexually abusive father in part because his little brother was getting to the age where their dad would start to be interested in him.

• We find in the Season 2 finale Mycroft has a major case of this, so much so that he was willing to be drawn back into the espionage game to keep Sherlock from being charged with treason. •: The murder victim does this in 'The View from Olympus'. •: In 'Blood is Thicker' we have confirmation that the Holmes' family fits this trope. Sherlock is the rejected addict, Papa Holmes is 'the one who shall not be named or seen' and known for his dirty work and Mycroft turns out to be working with someone to bring his brother back to England. •: Viewers not speaking Polish will miss the translation gags in the laundry scenes of 'Possibility Two'. •: In episode 3, The Investor's Post with its 'distinctive salmon-colored paper stock' is a stand-in for The Financial Times, another business-oriented newspaper known for being printed on pink paper. • The show seems very fond of this trope, especially in the second season.

Examples include a hacktivist group called Everyone clearly standing in for Anonymous and Lestrade mentioning his having done a Doug Chat which is standing in for TED Talks. •: At the end of 'A Difference in Kind', Joan gets the idea of setting up Detective Bell and her sister Lin on a dinner date as she and Sherlock consider asking Lin to help them sell Morland's safe house as he no longer needs a presence in New York. •: • In ', Sherlock suspected that the emergency response administrator was in on the robbery but had no solid evidence. So the police staged a fake riot to see if the suspects would use this opportunity to help get one of the imprisoned thieves out. • In 'The Female of the Species', when Sherlock and Bell gather a group of zoo employees together, Sherlock deliberately accuses an innocent man of murder on the assumption that the real killer will reveal his guilt by relaxing.

•: In the episode 'A Landmark Story' Sherlock forces Joan to break into a funeral home with him to perform an autopsy on the murder victim. Joan refuses, so Sherlock attempts to perform the autopsy himself. After getting frustrated with Sherlock's evident lack of medical training, she grudgingly performs the autopsy herself. •: At the start of 'Pilot', Holmes and Watson are on the brownstone rooftop at night, and Holmes tells Watson to take a six-week holiday because he doesn't need her and because she obviously hates her job. In the last scene of the season one finale 'Heroine', after Joan defeated Moriarty by herself, Sherlock and Joan are witnessing the birth of a new species of bee, which Sherlock names Euglassia Watsonia. •: A kidnapping victim in 'A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs'.

•: Joan Watson, played by black-haired Lucy Liu, is a former surgeon. •: From 'Step Nine'.

— John Greenleaf Whittier This is when directors or writers release details about plots, characters,, or other elements they thought about adding to the story at one point but ultimately never did. Unlike, however, this new information is not released as with the intention of being added to the. These elements are only What Could Have Been but never were and never will be part of the story proper. Some may quickly find a home in.

Many fans love hearing the possible paths their favorite story could have taken. Even while breathing a sigh of relief (or feeling disappointed) that they ultimately didn't come to be.

This can also refer to a that, alternate casts or directors, or even tantalizing news that the entire story was completely different from the one we all know, when it was first conceived. Just a few typical reasons for why stories get altered along the way: • The or said, 'No,' or at the very least, 'Yes, but only if you change this.' • Technical reasons: the people who were originally hired to do it backed out, the special effects plans didn't play out in their favor, there was not enough money in the budget to include it. • — They couldn't get the legal rights to it. • Story quality — The writers simply decided on something different instead because some ideas, no matter how cool they sound when they first come to you, just have to go (or, in the case of comedies, the joke wasn't as funny as it should have been). Maybe the author realizes the fans wouldn't be too happy about seeing the death of a or character you originally planned to kill off (not that it stops ).

Or maybe you realize what sounds in your head pushes too far on film or paper. Or maybe it was a with which to begin. In any case, someone eventually had a better idea. • A side effect of — Something had to be thrown out or made up on the spot in its place.

• Time constraints: sometimes the creators simply run out of time and are unable to implement it. A good place to find What Could Have Been is in and out-of-continuity used to pitch a show. Keep in mind that and that the ideas and concepts implemented into the final product are sometimes better than What Could Have Been. See also,,, and.

Contrast with where a particularly grand moment is seemingly perfectly set up to happen but then isn't seen, and for when they used an awesome idea in a horrible, horrible way. Occasionally something that was removed survives in another part of the series, then it is. Have in mind that,, this trope is for divergent aspects of the work which were actually considered by the creators in the real world. If you want to discuss how the work could have been better if some detail was different (with that detail being just your own idea), start a. For further reading, see the thread at Television Without Pity, the, and the 'Movies that Never Were' series at CHUD.com, the links for all of which are included in this. This subject has also been covered by A.V.

Club and and. • The 2000s Mini reboot was originally meant to be a kei car-style microvan, before turning into a premium hatchback. • In the 60s and 70s, British Leyland worked on a hatchback that would replace the original Mini. However, such a design had never reached production. Instead, a bigger hatchback was designed and released in 1980 as the Austin/MG Metro. • Maybach cars were originally meant to have a biturbo V24 engine, displacing 15 litres and making about 1000 HP.

Due to packaging issues and problems with deigning a durable enough gearbox, the biturbo V12 from the Mercedes S600 and was used instead. • First design sketches for the 1993-2000 Mercedes C-Class depicted a car with a more rounded appearance. • The Mercedes CLS could have never seen production, if not for an executive seeing an employee-made drawing of 'a Jaguar built by Mercedes' and deciding to put it into production. • 1962 Dodge midsizers were originally meant to be fullsize cars, but instead got downsized to compete with new GM A-body vehicles. • Cadillac originally planned their 1967 models to have an • The 1980-2003 Fiat Panda was originally meant to be built on a streched platform of the 126. • Its name was originally planned to be 'Rustica', but someone pointed out that given Fiat's reputation for corrosion, a name containing the word 'rust' shouldn't really be considered for any of the brand's products.

• The 2003-2012 Fiat Panda was planned to be an experimental lightweight low fuel consumption 5-seat small car, but ended up as a more traditional city car. • Also, the vehicle's name was originally meant to be 'Gingo', but the protests of Renault, makers of the Twingo, blocked the change. • The 2007 Fiat 500's original designs depicted a 5-door car with styling similar to the VW New Beetle, but with a more toy-like appearance. • Volkswagen could have not existed at all, if not for the British major Ivan Hirst reopening the KDF-Wagen factory after World War II and renaming the product to 'Volkswagen Type 1', colloquially known as the Beetle. • The VW Beetle's original replacement was a project codenamed ', a mid-engined hatchback with the motor below the front seats, However, technical difficulties and the high projected cost of producing such a vehicle made the not enter production. Instead, the VW Golf/Rabbit debuted in 1975 as a Beetle replacement.

• Between 2010 and 2014 Porsche worked on a roadster slotting below the Boxster, but the idea ended up getting abandoned. • The Porsche 928 was planned as a 911 replacement, but ended up being a more luxurious alternative to it. • In the late 1980s, BMW was working on the idea of a V16-powered car. There even were a few prototypes of a 6.6 V16 7-Series built, based on the 750i and nicknamed '766i' or 'Goldfish', but such an engine ended up being too complicated for a production car. • The BMW 8-Series had a 550 HP version called 'M8' considered, so that BMW would have a rival for the Ferrari 456GT. However, the car never ended up hitting production. • In the mid-2000s BMW wanted to release a range of 3 crossovers being the middle ground between their wagons and the X SUVs.

These vehicles were meant to be based on the 3-Series, 5-Series and 7-Series, respectively named V3, V5 and V7. The 7-Series-based vehicle never saw production, whiule the 3-series and 5-series-based ones morphed into the GT versions of these cars. • Caterham tried to release a car based on the 2017 Renault Alpine, being in an alliance with the latter.

Unfortunately, the British company did not have the money it took to design the new model and the car ended up existing only in the digital form and as clay models. • The alliance also wanted to make a Caterham-branded subcompact and small crossover in order to get more appeal in the Asian markets. These vehicles never went further than the general idea. • The Lamborghini was a civilian adaptation of the Cheetah, a military prototype that had too high fuel consumption to be accepted, and might had not existed if the Cheetah got greenlit for army service. • Lamborghini wanted to release a mid-engined 4-seater coupe called 'Espada' in 2008. The car was planned to be built using a stretched Gallardo spaceframe and mechanics, but never saw a release. • Later, the company was tooling with the idea of building a front-engined 4-door sedan, like the prototypical Estoque, but instead settled on developing an SUV, the Urus.

• DeLorean Motor Company wanted to release a 4-door counterpart of the DMC-12, but the vehicle never made it into production, due to a lack of funds for engineering it. • The Land Rover Series I's prototypes had a single seat and the steering wheel in the middle, due to the buyer demographics being perceived as having familarity with that layout, driving tractors as part of their work. The final production version ended up being equipped with 3 front seats and a normal left- or right-mounted steering wheel. • The 1964 Ford Mustang was originally meant to be a 2-seat roadster with a rear-mounted V4 engine. • In the 80s, Ford decided that the 4th generation Mustang would be a Mazda 626-based FWD coupe. Instead, due to public outcry, the 4th generation Mustang was an RWD car, and the FWD coupe was released as the Ford Probe, slotting below the Mustang. • Early prototypes of the Ford Pinto envisioned it as a highly safe car.

However, the production version had many of the safety features removed. • The Mercury Comet was designed as an addition to the Edsel lineup, but the cancellation of the latter brand got it put in the Mercury lineup in the last second.

• The 3rd generation Ford Focus had a Mercury counterpart, called 'Tracer', originally being develeloped alongside, but the 2010 discontinuation of the Mercury brand led to the cancellation of the Tracer. • Rover originally planned to introduce a model called '55' in 2003. The car would have been an RWD compact/midsize sedan, competing against the BMW 3-Series. However, it had to be shelved, due to financial problems. • In the mid-80s, MG Rover worked on an aluminium-bodied 3-cylinder small car that would replace the Metro, but it was deemed too ambitious, and the more conventional Metro stayed on sale.

• The 2nd generation Rover 400 was being designed as an all-new car. Instead, financial troubles led to the final version being just a Honda Concerto with different badging. • During the preorder stage,the Jaguar was advertised as having a naturally aspirated 542 HP V12 engine, based on the one used in the XJS and. However, due to yet unknown reasons, the final version delivered to customers ended up getting a 510 HP version of the 3.5 twin turbo V6 from the MG Metro 6R4 rally car.

• In 2010, Jaguar showed the C-X75 concept, a turbine-engined hypercar. A year later, the turbine engine concept was shelved, due to too high emissions, and replaced with a hybrid 1.6 powertrain, making 888 HP. Unfortunately, that was also cancelled, because of a lack of a big inough target market. • The Jaguar XJS was originally meant to be mid-engined.

A styling cue left over from the original design is the C-pillar shape, made to accomodate vents for an engine behind the seats. • The same car also had a Daimler version considered in the 1980s, colloquially called the Daimler-S and having normal-styled C-pillars, but it did not reach production. • Rover was thinking of introducing a mid-engined sports car with their V8 for 1973. Unfortunately, that idea was cancelled to avoid competition with Jaguar, which was planning to make the XJS such a car, as described above. • Triumph planned to introduce a redesign of the in 1983. Google Play Store Free Download For Hcl Me U1 Tablet more. However, British Leyland decided to discontinue the Triumph brand altogether in 1983.

• An alternative design for the Austin Allegro was a large redesign of its predecessor, the 1100/1300. However, such a design never got into a production. • For some time, Peugeot was thinking about building a replacement of the 607, the 608. At some point, the car was even meant to share many mechanical components with the Ford RWD cars (e.g. Lincoln LS) - and the Ford 5.0 V8 would be the top of the line engine!

However, in the late 2000s, Peugeot decided to cancel the idea of a 607 replacement. • The Peugeot 309 was originally going to be sold as the Talbot Arizona, but the cancellation of the Talbot brand led to the change. • The Chevrolet Vega, notorious for its shoddy materials, was originally envisioned as being built out of higher-quality stuff. • In 2010, Lotus released 5 sports car concepts, intending to put them into production. Unfortunately, financial troubles made only one of the cars, the Elan, have any chance of getting a release, and this is because it would be a replacement to an existing model.

• In 2015, Volvo showed a shooting brake concept, intending to put a similar design into production if the public reception is good enough. However, the estimated demand ended up being too low to justify production, and the design isn't going to be mass-produced.

• Packard's 1957 line was originally planned to have its own styling, but ended up being rebadged Studebakers, due to budget constraints. • The McLaren-Mercedes partnership had 3 cars planned after the SLR: a mid-engined supercar, codenamed 'P8', competing with the Ferrari F430 or Lamborghini Gallardo, a more powerful version of the P8, codenamed 'P9' competing with the Ferrari 599 or Lamborghini Murcielago, and a completely different car, codenamed 'P10' and replacing the SLR. However, the partnership ended up splitting, due to different visions on it, and only the P8 ended up hitting the market as the McLaren -12C, and with McLaren's own 3.8 twin-turbo engine, not the AMG 6.3, as originally planned. • The Honda Fit/Jazz's name was meant to be 'Fitta'. There even were commercials and press photos showing the car with such badging, but the mockery by Scandinavian press (as 'fitta' sounds similar to a few Scandinavian vulgar terms for female genitals) led to a name change. • The Daewoo Matiz's design was drawn for the Fiat Seicento.

However, Fiat turned the offer back, and instead, the design was bought by Daewoo, with a pair of rear doors added. • The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow's original nameplate was 'Silver Mist'. Fortunately, someone noticed that 'mist' means 'manure' in German, and the car was quickly renamed, with new badges fitted just before the debut. • In order to turn the Rolls-Royce Phantom into 'the ultimate luxury car', BMW was considering fitting it with a 9.0 V16 engine.

However, such a car would be too expensive and compliceated for production. The only publically-seen prototypes were the ones starring in • In 2008, a start-up called Carbon Motors showed the E7, a prototypical purpose-built police car, powered by a more durable BMW straight-6 diesel and with special safety capabilities. The original production date target was 2012, but the car was first delayed, and then the company went bankrupt in 2013. • In 1949, 6 working prototypes of the Taylor Aerocar, a flying car, were built. However, due to financial problems and a lack of a big enough target market, the car wasn't ultimately produced. • And these examples are only the tip of the iceberg, as a typical car has about 10 different designs considered before the production car one gets chosen, and most of the aborted ones never see daylight. • A bit more subtle than the other examples on this page.

Originally, each new expansion of was going to have a new color scheme on the card backs instead of the usual brown and tan — for instance, Arabian Nights would have been orange and magenta, Ice Age would have been two shades of blue. This was nixed when the designers realized this would make it too easy for your opponents to identify the cards you have in your hand by their backs, giving them an unfair advantage, so the card backs have remained unchanged since day one. (Nowadays of course, most people have card sleeves.) • Expansion sets were planned to be temporary installments played along with the main set, then forgotten as newer sets replaced them. The 'Standard' format preserves this idea. • The set 'Planar Chaos' focused on the theme of alternate realities. One of the original ideas to express the concept was to present the set as coming from an alternate timeline where Magic has six colors instead of five. The sixth color (purple, by the way) made it quite far in the development process (at least, by the standards of rejected ideas) but was ultimately scrapped.

The set was going to feature packaging showcasing an alternate logo style and other changes, though the cardback would have stayed the same. • Wizards of the Coast kept the final set of the Scars of Mirrodin block a mystery for a time, saying it would be either New Phyrexia or Mirrodin Pure, depending on which side won the war. Eventually it was revealed to be New Phyrexia. This surprised precisely no one, but for the portion of the player base who liked Mirrodin and disliked Phyrexia, we can only wonder what the set could have been like. • Unfortunately for them, recent articles about the development process reveal that the last set never could have been Mirrodin Pure to begin with—the block was originally going to start with New Phyrexia and go from there!

That only changed when they decided it would be more interesting to show the process of Mirrodin gradually being corrupted into New Phyrexia. • During the development of the Shards of Alara block (and several times before) there were an idea to introduce a 6th basic land:. It was nicknamed 'Barry's Land' and would be strictly worse than any other basic land, as it only tapped for colorless mana. Sounds pretty harmless right?

The idea was that it would increase the number of basic land types to 6, giving abilities such as 'Domain' a bigger boost. However, this came with a slew of other problems. Due to the wording on older cards, this rendered a lot of older cards much harder to use (as they say 'control all basic lands' rather than 'control 5') as well as broke other cards, which mentions the other 5 basic lands by name (because they search for those lands) but not Cave.

• Eventally a true 6th colorless Basic Land came to be in Oath of the Gatewatch in the form of Wastes. It also solved the problem with Domain by not including a sub-type. • hyped up the 'mystery' of the Shadows over Innistrad set, teasing us as who could be behind the strange events going on. Turns out it was. This would have been an incredible surprise. If the last block hadn't been all about fighting the Eldrazi.

There had originally been intended to be some time between Battle for Zendikar and SoI, but things were re-ordered behind the scenes. As it was, it was so obvious that it was the Eldrazi that some were actually surprised that it wasn't a trick.

• Did you know that there was an attempt to make into a card game, before the popular CCG we know and love today? Was simplistic, if crammed with, and was much farther detached from the card game we saw in the anime and manga than Konami's version was. However, it was reportedly rather popular, so imagine if this was the version of the game we got, instead of Konami's version. • In poker, when a hand is won before all the cards are dealt, the act of revealing the cards that would have been dealt later had the hand continued is called a rabbit hunt. Rabbit hunting usually isn't allowed in casinos, as it not only slows down the game, but also might reveal information about concealed hands. •!: The starting authors had to decide whether to go with the Earth of 's universe or the Earth, settling for the former. Fortunately, the existence of a allows for a glimpse at the latter.

While some of the posts within will indeed come to pass after enough in-universe time has gone by, others will indeed never make the story's canon. The discussion threads,, also have older versions of posts that made it to the Story Only thread. One of these had explicitly show up, but it was rejected in favor of a less blatant. • In the, has taken the sort of threads and hints Terry Pratchett left in his novels and expanded on them; one-shot or one-line cameo characters get whole stories, for instance. It has been noted that a handful of hints, random pointers and one-line jokes in the early Discworld books, that suggested an Australia-like place existed there, eventually blossomed into fruition as.

Pessimal noted the books have just as many hints, one-liners and pointers to the existence of a South Africa-like place on the Disc. Indeed, on his death, Pratchett had an outline novel sketched out that would have explored the Discworld 'Africa' in at least as much detail as he gave to Australia. Discworld's 'South Africa' is realised more fully in Pessimal's world. Indeed, the whole of the 'African' continent is visited by travellers in the tale - a fair stab at the ground Terry P might have covered in the never-now-to-be-written The Dark Incontinent.

•: The author originally planned for Veis instead of Vili to join Clan Gully. Also, Vili didn't exist in the original plan. The original plan was scrapped and Vili was created because cuttingmoon57 didn't like the idea of altering important canon clans.

•: The author once mentioned that he had played with the idea of writing the real sequel. Unlike the non-canonical, controversial side-story it would narrate the conflict foreshadowed in the last chapter of TS and it would not be a crossover. But he never got around to do it.