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January 31, 2016
chimpsinsocks:
some s4 setlock info according to amanda:
filming begins at the end of...
some s4 setlock info according to amanda:
filming begins at the end of march/beginning of april and will end at the end of july/beginning of august
gatiss has finished the first episode, moffat is writing the second and both will write the third
filming will take place in bristol (mostly interiors) and then they’ll be back in london for the rest
Setlock!
January 29, 2016
Except that it isn't canon that sherlock is gay despite you wanting to pretend that it's fact, bye.
hey pal don’t say bye you just boarded the Discourse Train and u got a long way to go before your stop
could you specify what you mean by ‘canon’? do you mean the ACD books? may i remind you that homosexuality was in fact illegal at the time those books were written, and oscar wilde’s ‘the picture of dorian gray’ was used against him in his 1895 trial for ‘gross indecency’. so arthur conan doyle could hardly write “sherlock holmes had a hawk like nose and he was also a raging homosexual”- especially considering the structure of the books. they’re from watson’s POV, telling the public about holmes- he wouldn’t expose holmes as a homosexual would he?
that being said, despite the risk of writing a queer character in those times, there is a plethora of subtext suggesting holmes is gay- i haven’t got time to list every instance but this sums it up quite nicely.
so it’s quite clear holmes is attracted to men in the books, what about women? well the only woman we could possibly suggest he was ‘attracted’ to was irene adler. except he wasn’t attracted to her. at all. watson/doyle makes this clear to us within the first few lines of the story (which is actually quite risky when you think about it, doyle could have left some ambiguity around holmes’ sexuality yet he explicitly states he is not attracted to women).
your “it’s not canon” argument is utterly meaningless- even if the books had said holmes was a jolly old hetero who had seven wives, that doesn’t affect BBC sherlock. first of all, ACD said (as we all know) future adapters of sherlock holmes can do ‘whatever they like’ with him. so the BBC version has every right to create their own version away from the canon.
also, if BBC sherlock is based off some sort of ‘canon’ it’s going to be the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes which the creators have stated was their favourite adaptation and mark has said the film ‘changed his life’. if you know about TPLOSH you’ll know holmes is confirmed as gay by billy wilder (yup, the same wilder as referenced in the shspesh- they really do love him), but it’s also made clear in the film despite the restrictions it faced.
“There’s an amazing scene where, to get out of a situation where a Russian ballerina wants Sherlock to father her child, he claims Watson and he are gay. Watson is outraged and, when he calms down, speaks of the women all over the world who could attest to his sexuality. He says to Sherlock, “You do too, don’t you?” Holmes is silent, and Watson says, “Am I being presumptuous? There have been women, haven’t there?” Holmes says, “The answer is yes – you are being presumptuous.” Sensational.” - Mark Gatiss
as for BBC sherlock itself in the first episode they made it absolutely clear sherlock is not attracted to women
John Watson: You don’t have a girlfriend then?
Sherlock Holmes: Girlfriend? No, not really my area.
John Watson: Alright… Do you have a boyfriend? Which is fine, by the way.
Sherlock Holmes: I know it’s fine.
as someone who is gay i’ve said something akin to ‘not really my area’ hundreds of times when people ask me about having a boyfriend. also, sherlock (who is called ‘mr. punchline’ i.e he has to have an answer for everything) does not say “no” here he says “it’s fine” which not only skirts around the question but suggests he knows it’s fine because he’s thought about it before.
so it’s clear he is absolutely 100% gay.
i think there is room for interpretation when it comes to the aro/ace spectrum, but i would argue that he is not asexual (or at least not completely). the scenes where magnussen analyzes/deduces people (the red words) we see their ‘porn preferences’. now i know that this could be slightly useful for blackmail but (as far as i can remember) everyone we meet has their porn preference listed as ‘normal’, so its purpose isn’t to show magnussen’s methods of blackmail. i personally think it’s there to state sherlock is not ace and that he does experience sexual attraction. because sherlock (from a casual viewers perspective at least) is the main character, and it’s his porn preference we’re most likely to be interested in- and mofftiss know that. his preference is listed as ‘normal’ which shows he does watch porn. i’m aware that you can still be ace and watch porn but, firstly, the shows creators might not know this, and secondly, i think we have to look at this ‘porn preference’ device in that it has no real purpose unless it’s placed in the context of showing sherlock does experience sexual attraction. there aren’t many ways mofftiss can subtly state “hey, sherlock has urges”, but this it what they’re trying to do through revealing his porn preference. that being said, you can still be ace and gay, and as i said earlier i would be open to interpreting sherlock somewhere on the ace spectrum.
last thing bc this is turning into a novel- what would it take for you to see sherlock as gay? do you need him to stand up and say “hello world, i’m gay”? i hope you realize this is impossible for him to do in the context of 19th century canon (”I’ve always known I was a man out of his time”) but why does he need to explicitly state he’s gay in the BBC version? when have you ever heard a character say ‘i’m straight’? the creators have given us subtle ways of seeing his sexuality -as i’ve mentioned above- without making him stroll around london wrapped in a giant rainbow flag.
benedictsherllock:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and...
Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington, behind the scenes of The Abominable Bride. [x]
Great photo of all 3 of them.
watsonshoneybee:
The first year, 29th January comes and goes feeling significant but neither John...
The first year, 29th January comes and goes feeling significant but neither John nor Sherlock really know how, or why. They don’t exactly keep track of which day of the year they’ve met all their other friends, do they? John makes coffee in the morning and Sherlock sits across from him to read the newspaper, and they’ve been doing this for a year now, in some variation or another, and though a fairly interesting case comes into the website late in the afternoon, Sherlock closes the tab and makes a note to call the poisoned man’s wife the next day, because John has just asked if he fancies a Chinese and maybe a James Bond, if they’ve got nothing on tonight. They eat far too much and drink a couple of beers and sit just a little too close together on the sofa, and neither of them really knows why, but it feels important.
The second year, Sherlock is both dead and trying hard not to be, working undercover with a street gang in Budapest, and John sits for three hours on bench outside Bart’s hospital and they both know exactly why January 29 is significant, but it no longer matters.
The third year, John goes on a date with the new nurse from the clinic and tries not to feel like he’s cheating on someone. Sherlock smokes a cigarette and blows the smoke out over Ho Chi Minh and wonders if John ever thinks about him anymore.
The fourth year is the worst year, because they both try desperately not to think about the 29th, and they both fail miserably. John goes to work and doesn’t text Sherlock; Sherlock swoops into the Met and makes everyone miserable and angry until Lestrade finally sits him down in a conference room with weak tea and a stale pastry and tells him to text John. Sherlock doesn’t, but at half-six that evening John shows up at Baker Street anyway with a Chinese takeaway and a sullen expression, and they eat together quietly, awkwardly, in recognition of something they can’t talk about but can’t seem to make themselves ignore. Sherlock resents John then, resents that he still knows that Sherlock likes black pepper chicken and fried dumplings, not steamed, resents that John can still find the mugs in the kitchen, resents that John sits on the sofa and doesn’t relax back into it, like he’s always prepared to jump up and leave. For his part, John feels every ounce of that resentment like a black oil welling up around his ribs, and he has plenty of anger and ire to heat it to boiling, and when he finally leaves that night, it’s because he can’t stand to be in a room with Sherlock for another minute, not on this night, not when John knows what a night like 29th January could have meant, if only Sherlock had wanted it.
The fifth year, Moriarty is dead and Mary is gone and John is lost. He’s been twisted every way, he’s had his whole world turned upside down and topsy turvy and he wishes, for once, that Sherlock would give him a safe place to land. He walks, and meanders, and wanders, and doesn’t pop by Baker Street and doesn’t buy a Chinese takeaway, and instead finds himself looking up at the facade of Bart’s hospital. He shouldn’t, really, but he does anyway, walking purposefully through the halls so no one thinks to ask if he should be there. He’s being very silly, he thinks, but it doesn’t matter, because when he swings the door open to the lab, to the lab, Sherlock is already there, sitting on a stool and looking down at nothing.
The fifth year, John says hello, then, and Sherlock cracks a smile and says, we’ve got to stop meeting this way, and when John strides over to him, purposeful, filled with intent, Sherlock turns on his seat to face him.
I think we’ve got to start meeting like this instead, John says, and he takes one of Sherlock’s hands in his, and Sherlock lets him, and he slides one of his hands along Sherlock’s jaw, and Sherlock tilts his face into John’s hold, and John kisses him, very very softly, as if to say, okay? and Sherlock kisses back, as if to say, obviously.
As if to say, finally.
January 27, 2016
Crackle Gives Series Order to 'Start Up' Drama Starring Adam Brody & Martin Freeman
Just one day after Relativity Television formally relaunched as Critical Content, the company has landed its first greenlight with a series order from Sony’s Crackle for a drama starring Adam Brody and Martin Freeman, Variety has learned.
Start Up marks the second scripted show on the streaming service’s expanding slate. Crackle has ordered ten episodes of the drama that also stars Edi Gathegi and newcomer Otmara Marrero who has appeared in Graceland. Created by Ben Ketai, the show begins filming this week in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Set in Miami, Start Up explores what happens when a brilliant, yet controversial tech idea gets incubated on the wrong side of the tracks by three strangers who don’t necessarily fit the mold of tech entrepreneurs. Forced to fund a tech company with dirty money while forming ties with a Haitian gang, the fight to build a business pales in comparison to the fight to stay alive, especially when there’s a vehement FBI agent who wields the power to make or break those he comes in contact with — and not always for the right reasons.
Freeman plays FBI agent Phil Rask who specializes in financial crimes and crosses paths with Brody’s Nick Talman, a sharp and intelligent financier at a boutique firm in Miami.
January 26, 2016
mid0nz:
So this ^ happened. The professional association for...
So this ^ happened. The professional association for all UK screen directors retweeted us. They thought the Q&A was good enough that it would be of some interest to basically every director in the UK.
I like validation (who doesn’t?) and today this gesture made me very, very, very happy.
Check it out!
“With Love and Respect to the Characters:
A Q&A with Sherlock Director Douglas Mackinnon” by mid0nz
Yay! Well deserved.
January 25, 2016
A shameless cry for attention...
Can I just say I hope you like my interview with Arwel Wyn Jones?!!! It’s a looooooot of work (a metric fuckton– several straight days of labor from me and Jackie who transcribed it). It’s always great to hear what you think. Comments are lovely! They gives me the boost I need to keep at it :-) I have some Bonus Extras that I’ll be posting in the week to come, but if you could give the i’view a signal boost/retweet/reblog I’d sincerely appreciate it.
Thank you and goodnight.
Awesome! Must read!
January 24, 2016
silentauroriamthereal:
ughholmesandwatson:
How it should have...
How it should have been.
This is all I wanted!! Just this would have made me so much happier about HLV!
Yes for sure. Where was John?
January 23, 2016
The Skyler White Effect and Mary Morstan
“The Skyler White Effect: The cognitive dissonance that happens when a female character is presented by the narrative as absolutely correct in their judgment of a male character, and yet the viewers assume she’s the bitch.”
I link a couple of great articles, but one quote is worth mentioning directly:
The Skyler White effect is a pretty warped set-up. It speaks to the overwhelming preference for a male perspective over a female one, and for a male hero free from any woman’s “interference.”
We are trained to root for the male lead, even if - especially if - they are assholes. When a female character acts as a foil to them, and is their equal or even their better, they are seen to be undermining the (male) “hero” and so we hate them for it.
This applies directly to Mary Morstan - because she frequently matches wits with the the male heroes, with a level of confident smugness that matches Sherlock’s own. That cannot be permitted!
The Skyler White effect as described above isn’t broad enough. Any woman character who is portrayed as equally competent as a man will frequently draw hate for it. It’s society’s sexist double standards: just as men get to be womanising heroes and women get labelled sluts, or men can be direct and authoritative and are seen as leaders, while women who act the same way as seen as bossy and stuck up.
Anyway, here are some articles that describe the skyler white effect as it applies to breaking bad, the sopranos, mad men, etc.
Thoughts on the Skyler White Effect
Mad Men, Megan Draper, and the Skyler White Effect
I would just add that I think this just as applicable to Sally Donovan, possibly even more so.
Or maybe she’s disliked because she’s, ya know, an assassin for hire who shot the main lead with no remorse, threatened him several times after that, worked for Moriarty (she was prepared to kill John and Sherlock at the pool at the very least), and is, in Amanda’s own words, “a fucking psychopath”. That could have something to do with it.
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