XistentialAngst's Blog, page 107
July 23, 2016
"This year’s probably the most action intensive series we’ve done, I think that’s pretty true."
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Steven Moffat, SDCC 2016 (x)
(via constancecream)
"I would say to Mary if I met her in real life, “My God you look a lot like me, it’s uncanny. And..."
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Amanda Abbington, July 23 2016, SDCC2016 (x)
Not at all ambiguous there. Mary is evil! :-)
1895itsallfine:
deducingbbcsherlock:
1895itsallfine:
johnlockismyreligion:
1895itsallfine:
Oh...
Oh NO she’s different in S4 than she was in S3, and it’s more fun to play her?? But she was so quirky and adorable in S3! What could that mean?! Maybe it’s different and challenging to play a doting mom who helps out on cases? Maybe she just meant it was more fun to have curly hair?
If AA thinks we will like the change in Mary, well, I fear I’ll hate it with the strenght of thousands suns.
Oh, we’ll like it. (Even though it won’t really be a “change” for anyone who always saw through her) And it’ll lead to her being gone. Very early on I think.
This is the actress who said her favorite moment of filming s3 was shooting Sherlock. She loves playing the villain. And really, she only got to do that for maybe three scenes in all of s3. In s4, she gets to really embrace it and have fun with it. (imo!)
Her colleagues gave her big props after the ep 1 read through. I think a lot of juicy villain stuff, backstory and current, happens in ep 1. Maybe even her demise imo. And yes for sure it’s more fun being full on Bad and that’s 100% what she meant!
Yes. Hopefully it means she’ll be full on bad ass and evil!Mary. That would be fun to play.
July 22, 2016
thesetison:
Setlock Recap, 7.20.16
Danny Hargreaves said he was on the road for Sherlock, as well...
Setlock Recap, 7.20.16
Danny Hargreaves said he was on the road for Sherlock, as well as a couple of movies.
Meanwhile, Steven was off to San Diego for Comic Con.
Ben was supposedly spotted at Tredegar House, which was the location of the base this week, but it’s still unclear if they also filmed anything there or not. The signs were still up at the farm/house in Lower Machen though, so it’s likely they filmed more there at least, and after another night shoot, Benjamin gave us a blurry picture that was quite likely taken there.
Amanda posted about her last day on series 4, sharing a picture of her hair being done and another from the sitting room of 221B, where–from what we can see of it–she’s wearing the same costume we saw her wear in episode 2.
Setlock Recap, 7.21.16
We were told they were filming again, but we didn’t find where. Benjamin did tell us two heads are better than one though, but it’s unclear if the pic is really related to the day’s filming or not.
Steven participated in the Nerdist TV: The Boundary Pushers panel at SDCC along with Bryan Fuller and Michael Green (the showrunners for American Gods). Reportedly, he said that episode 3 of series 4 is insane wish fulfillment for him and Mark and that they lost their minds. (Video of the panel hasn’t surfaced, so I’m considering anything from it unconfirmed until it does.)
Setlock Recap, 7.22.16
Amanda, Mark, and Reetu Kabra all told us they were headed for San Diego. Ben was also spotted at the airport and later in Los Angeles, probably on his way there as well.
Arwel showed us a picture of an empty jar (which many have speculated includes a reflection of Sherlock’s head and maybe more) and later gave us a picture of a smiley face stencil.
Benjamin posted another pic of the Jurassic Park jeep owned by one of the crew and a couple pics of the lighting and camera trucks, all likely taken at Pinewood, so they possibly were filming there today. He also told us they have two weeks of filming left.
stillgosherlocked:
Just some basic mathematics to hide your...
Just some basic mathematics to hide your love for your best friend
221B ≈ 221.8
221.8 + 221.8 ≈ 443.7
nixxie-fic:
Brilliant moment from Martin Freeman at the end of...
Brilliant moment from Martin Freeman at the end of ‘Brian Pern: a Life in Rock’ -
Martin: “How are we supposed to get out?”
Brian; “Work it out for yourself, Sherlock!”
Martin: “I don’t fucking play Sherlock!”
Brian: “I don’t care. I don’t watch the programme anyway, I prefer Bergerac.”
the Bergerac theme tune plays as the end credits roll.
Genius!
lol
vanetti:
vanetti:
willasherlyscottholmes:
thistie:
LQ but I...
LQ but I need this on my blog. x
*dies*
what in the BLUE FUCK IS THIS
okay this is back on my dash so here is an obligatory reminder that this is how john looks in sherlock’s head
Sherlock’s MP fangirling.
Why Mary Cannot Be Evil
This requires some explanation based on what Moffat, Gatiss, and Amanda Abbington all said in interviews, but yeah, here we go:
Back during interviews for s1, Moffat and Gatiss revealed that the original plan for Moriarty’s appearance was that Jim from IT would be his only appearance in the first season, with the last shot of s1 being Moriarty’s shoes as he came into the pool.
However, they realized they couldn’t cast Moriarty based on the scene for Jim, so they wrote a throwaway scene that they thought was cheesy, but the plan was to see who could nail it best. When Andrew Scott actually made the line “Burn the heart out of you” sound intimidating in his audition, the throwaway scene turned into the end of TGG. Clearly, they knew that the actor playing the villain had to know that his character was more than he first seemed, and they had to make sure that he could live up to it.
Amanda, by contrast, had no idea that Mary was more than she appeared to be until the table-read for HLV. When they rehearsed and filmed TEH and TSo3, she played Mary as sweet, funny, kind, and normal, and she said after HLV that if she’d known about Mary’s past, she’d have played her totally differently. Had Moffat and Gatiss intended for Mary to be villainous, Amanda would have been taken aside and told so before they filmed TEH. I mean, making a character evil but not telling the actress? That’s a huge risk, because what if Amanda couldn’t play evil? What if she’d read a throwaway audition scene with Evil!Mary and Mofftiss realized they wanted someone else? Or what if she completely bombed the office scene in HLV and they realized that they’d have to rewrite not just the episode, but the next season? Filming would have been delayed, s3 wouldn’t have been ready in time–casting someone as the villain without telling them that their character is the villain is a risk that is not worth taking.
So, yeah. If Mary were meant to be evil, Amanda would have known about it ahead of time.
It all depends on what the writers were going for. In the case of Mary, they wanted that audience shock moment of supposedly sweet, normal Mary turning around in Cam’s office and being the cold assassin. In that case, it served their purpose that even the actress didn’t know in E1 and E2 that she would end up being evil because that would have influenced her performance and given it away. With Moriarty, we knew well before we even saw him that “Moriarty=evil” so of course Andrew knew. Hell, he was cast as Moriarty, which is a big clue right there.
A true sociopath/psychopath can be 100% convincing in their “nice” persona. Personally, I think it was a brilliant move to have Mary turn on a dime like that.
So as reasons go for “why Mary can’t be evil”, it’s not very convincing. Beyond Amanda herself tweeting that Mary is a psychopath, and tweeting the “horns” picture, there’s a ton of great meta about who and what Mary is. If not Moriarty than at least Moran and the sniper at the pool, probably among other things.
As for the risk that Amanda couldn’t play it well, that is easily removed if she’s done anything remotely similar in the past and they could see the footage. Sorry I’m not familiar enough with her work to be able to point to something specific, but she has been an actress for quite a few years so I’d be surprised if there was nothing but sweetness and sugar. She is a good actress, IMHO.
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