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"Because that’s where they sit, get your hands off me you damn dirty ape."

“Because that’s where they sit, get your hands off me you damn dirty ape.”

- John Watson, HLV (via vitruvianwatson)

blackstarjp:After four seasons, Freeman says the fact he and...

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After four seasons, Freeman says the fact he and Watson are becoming more like each other is inevitable.

For Martin Freeman, returning to the role of Dr John Watson for a fourth season of Sherlock was satisfyingly difficult. “You want to go home at 10 o’clock at night exhausted and think, ‘I really worked today’, because you’ve cried or run or screamed. There’s nothing worse than going home tired because you’re bored,” says the 45-year-old English actor.

Boredom is perhaps the last word anyone is using about this show. More than 12 million people watched the season three premiere on BBC, making it the highest-rating drama in Britain of the past 15 years. The Emmy and BAFTA award-winning series returns on Monday on streaming service Stan, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, alongside Freeman, Andrew Scott as Moriarty and new recruit Toby Jones (Detectorists).

The show’s cast and creatives are famous for keeping the plot under wraps but the new season’s trailer suggests a sinister turn, which Freeman confirms.

“The season itself was very enjoyable and we had a lot of fun doing it but the fictional content is pretty dark,” he says. “There has always been gruesome things or dastardly people in the show, but I think this season is the most shocking, and I’m looking forward to the audience seeing it.”

Freeman says his character, who becomes a father this season with wife Mary Morstan (played by Amanda Abbington), is not exempt from the punishing plotlines.

“I love the amount John gets to play. He is a very 3-D character, with strength and vulnerability, humour and heroics — he gets to do the lot — but, like everyone this season, he is put through the emotional wringer very badly,” he says.

“Some of the things our characters come up against are the most emotionally testing that we have seen them deal with. There’s a lot of meat.”

Martin Freeman: ‘The fictional content is pretty dark.’

After four seasons, Freeman says the fact he and Watson are becoming more like each other is inevitable.

“You begin to meet in the middle. It’s a natural part of you making sense of a character’s emotional life, given that your own emotional life is the only reality you know. If it makes you tick, it will make your character tick, and it will hopefully make the audience tick.”

Freeman, who had starring roles in The Hobbit film franchise and in new series StartUp on streaming service Amazon Prime, as well as acclaimed roles in The Office and Fargo, is philosophical about the focus on Cumberbatch and the title role.

“The show is called Sherlock, it’s not called John. Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional character in history, John Watson is not,” he says.

“But John Watson is the audience’s way into the show; there won’t be that many people watching the show who are very like Sherlock Holmes, whereas John is a more recognisably human figure.

“Even though people love watching Sherlock’s mental acrobatics and agility, and they laugh at his inability to connect emotionally with people, they also enjoy seeing their friendship develop. I think he’s a bit more human now as a result of being John’s friend.”

From the Australian (x)(x)

cupidford:John Watson, Sherlock S4 Promo Photo (x)

cupidford:

John Watson, Sherlock S4 Promo Photo (x)

shaaghaayegh:I’m in agony!

shaaghaayegh:

I’m in agony!

BBC SHERLOCK SEASON 4 MASTERPOST

mycrawft:

I apologize if there are already extensive masterposts going around, but here’s mine. This has info/links on DATES/TIMES, LIVESTREAMS, REWATCHING/DOWNLOADING THE EPISODES, EXTENSIONS, and TAGGING/BLACKLISTING. This is a long (and hopefully useful!) post, so most everything is under the Read More.

DATES AND TIMES:

All episodes air first in the UK on BBC One (official schedule) and then a few hours later in the US on PBS (official schedule).

If you are using a livestream, remember to convert these times to your timezone! You can convert it here.

All this information may be subject to change, so please double-check your local stations for the correct times.

S4E1: THE SIX THATCHERS

Jan. 1, 2017
BBC One: 8:30 p.m. GMT

PBS: 9:00

p.m. ET*

S4E2: THE LYING DETECTIVE

Jan. 8, 2017

BBC One: 9:00

p.m.

GMT
PBS: 9:00

p.m.

ET*

S4E3: THE FINAL PROBLEM

Jan. 15, 2017

BBC One: TBA (Please let me know if you find the time!)
PBS: 7:00

p.m.

ET*

*The PBS website lists the times with ET, but I believe that it is that 9PM, 9PM, and 7PM in all time zones, and not just ET. I don’t believe that PBS plays the episodes live at the same time across the nation, but rather that PBS plays the episodes first on the east coast, ending on the west coast. Please check and correct me if I’m wrong!

LIVESTREAMS:

Unfortunately, I can’t find any livestream links for PBS, so here are some livestream links for BBC One:

http://www.stream2watch.co/live-tv/gb/bbc-1-live-stream (personal favorite)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer (select that, yes, you have a TV provider; IP must be in UK to use)




http://www.watchallchannels.com/bbc-one-html/ (IP must be in UK to use)

http://robssatellitetv.com/watch-bbc-1-live-online-stream-watch-uk-tv-free.htm (IP must be in UK to use) 


http://livetvcafe.net/video/X6R47664W52Y/ (click Stream 4; has a chatbox, which is fun, but try another link if it gets too crowded/laggy)

http://www.time4tv.com/2011/06/bbc-one.php (same exact info as previous)

http://www.shadow-net.org/channels/BBC-1.html (turn off Adblock + IP must be in UK to use)


http://www.freeintertv.com/view/id-2209 (has a chatbox, IP must be in UK to use)

MORE INFO UNDER THE CUT

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'Sherlock' Star Benedict Cumberbatch, Creators on the Show's Success and a Possible Fifth Season

'Sherlock' Star Benedict Cumberbatch, Creators on the Show's Success and a Possible Fifth Season:

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Hit drama Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington, will return to BBC One in the U.K. and PBS in the U.S. with its fourth season on Jan. 1.

But much fan debate has focused on whether there will be a fifth season. No definite word came just before the holidays when BBC director general Tony Hall hosted a reception and preview of season 4 in London’s Soho, followed by a Q&A with cast members, the writers and others working on the show, whose comments were embargoed until now.

The BBC has said that the new season, once again written by creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and inspired by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, begins with Sherlock Holmes (Cumberbatch) back on British soil as Doctor Watson (Freeman) and his wife Mary (Freeman’s former real-life partner Abbington) prepare for their biggest ever challenge – becoming parents.

Naturally, someone asked whether there were plans for a fifth season of the drama. “We would love to do more, but, we are not lying, we absolutely don’t know,” Gatiss said. “It’s up to all kinds of factors, scheduling and willingness to do it.” He concluded: “We are just not sure.” Gatiss also shared that someone had asked him the same question earlier, quipping that “I said I have high hopes for spring. But after the inauguration, I’m not so sure.“

Moffat previously said that he and Gatiss have plotted a fifth season. And Cumberbatch said this fall: “We never say never on the show. I’d love to revisit it, I’d love to keep revisiting it, I stand by that, but in the immediate future we all have things that we want to crack on with and we’ve made something very complete as it is, so I think we’ll just wait and see.” He added: “The idea of never playing him again is really galling.”

With the exception of Victorian Christmas special The Abominable Bride a year ago, there haven’t been new installments of the hit drama since 2014. One of the reasons has been the actors’ busy schedule.

“I am very, very proud of the success of this program,” Cumberbatch said at the preview event for the new season, lauding Moffat and Gatiss. “For all of us, the heavy lifting is really done by two extraordinary fanboys. … And it’s just very fun to play fast and loose with the traditional and just do your job as an actor.“

Asked about how Sherlock is part of the often-cited current golden age of TV, Cumberbatch said: “You don’t take a job thinking [about that]. You’d be a pretty dead duck if you did. … It’s important for us to keep confounding the expectations of audiences and fans so that we can evolve rather than sitting on laurels.” He drew laughs when he concluded: “It would be a horribly grand thing to associate with. But if you want to say that, that’s fine.”

Freeman, meanwhile, lauded Sherlock for allowing the actors to explore their range. “It is always interesting to play shades of people,” he said.

And Abbington said beyond the acting challenges, there are also the fun parts. “I got to go to Marrakech” for the new season, she shared. “Jesus, fantastic!”

Someone asked Gatiss during the Q&A what was more fun – writing an episode or doing a brilliant scene with Cumberbatch in Gatiss’ role of Holmes’ brother Mycroft. Replied the writer/actor to laughs: “Doing brilliant scenes that I have written.”

Moffat shed some light on the title of the first episode of season 4, The Six Thatchers, a reference to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. “It’s a simple equivalence, that’s what we have done from the beginning of modernizing it,“ he explained. “We needed somebody who was iconic – she’s become Napoleon. She’s an iconic figure.”

Added Moffat: “We often use titles that are slight changes to the original. Like The Empty House becomes The Empty Hearse, which is my favorite. We are taking the original, but we are always doing a twist on it. The whole point of doing a modernized version is to say it is all happening again and this time is slightly different. We are absolutely, I think, loyal to the storytelling principles of Arthur Conan Doyle, which are utterly brilliant. It is the heresy of the true believer.”

Gatiss also talked about how close to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories is the writing team trying to stay. “I think Sherlock Holmes always strives best when people don’t treat it as a monument,“ he said. "The stories are meant to be lurid and strange, that’s why we love them. … We always try to find the stories we love and little bits and pieces of stories, which are very familiar. We always go back to Doyle, but equally we are not treating it as a sacred monument.”

Questioned about how daunting writing the new season was, Moffat said with a big smile: “It’s not daunting at all, it’s bloody brilliant. Normally, when you write shows, hardly anyone ever watches them and you sort of beg your friends and family, and people lie to you about having seen them.” He added: “Making sure that people actually watch is bloody marvelous. I have never had an audience before.” Amid laughs, Cumberbatch at that point jumped in, imitating Moffat’s voice and saying: “He’s having a good time!”

So what was the biggest challenge for the Sherlock team in producing season 4? “The big challenge was that peaceful dog [in episode 1], that bloodhound dog,” Moffat said, drawing laughter. “It didn’t move. That was an immobile dog. … It looked exactly like an ornament. It wouldn’t do a thing.”

Cumberbatch recalled, to more laughs, what the female trainer of the dog said while shooting in central London. “She said well, the dog doesn’t like pavements or concrete. It doesn’t like people or busy streets or open spaces.”

Rachel Talalay, who directed the first episode of the new season, acknowledged she had her own biggest challenge in “living up to the amazingness of the show.” Looking towards show producer Sue Vertue, she added: “There is just no room to miss a beat, so that’s an incredible challenge. And watching it tonight with the actors who hadn’t seen it yet was terrifying.”

Produced by Hartswood Films, season 4 of Sherlock consists of three 90-minute episodes. The team behind the hit show has teased that the new season would be the darkest season yet.

Very interesting. Why would the inauguration be relevant unless Sherlock goes gay? Great quotes in this one.

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goodbye 2016 » new ships » Philkas

sidryan:“it sounded like she was torturing an owl” “well it was laughter” “could have been both” is...

sidryan:

“it sounded like she was torturing an owl” “well it was laughter” “could have been both” is another underrated sherlock joke

I adore this line. This whole scene is comic gold.

The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes

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welovethebeekeeper:

tjlcisthenewsexy:

waitingforgarridebs:

So, Bad Luck Assistant, Mark Gatiss and Benjamin Caron seem to have a new favourite word… and with the first tweet being from 12th Feb, that’s not just a recent development.

(x) (x) (x) 

“penultimate”, by definition, means “last but one in a series of things; second last” - which, in all those tweets, makes perfect sense. But, you have to admit, it’s an odd(ish) choice of words… 

So, yes, I made a mistake. 

I googled “Sherlock Holmes penultimate”.

And ended up with a play by John Nassivera called “The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes” (x).

I don’t have the play, so for now there are only summaries to work with:

This play about the famous detective has Holmes venturing into the occult where, during a seance, he is warned that he is about to meet his maker. The play has Holmes, Watson and Prof. Moriarty meet their maker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wishes to end their existence literally with the final stroke of his pen. Holmes cannot accept the fact that he is the product of another’s imagination, a mere pawn of another man’s genius. Who is the creator and who the pawn becomes the central question as Holmes and the others threaten their creator with the death to which he has sentenced them. 

… I don’t even know where to start.

But, it goes on (x):

In the course of two evenings, the lodgings at 21 Baker Street are visited by the ghosts of Irene Adler (Marion Lines), Poe’s Monsieur Dupin (Yusef Bulos), and finally, of course, Prof. James Moriarity himself (Edward Zang). But playright John Nassivera has yet another deus ex machina in the wings of this Victorian setting. Just when the skeptical Holmes has worked his way thorough every possible explanation for the ghostly phenomena, he receives a visit from Conan Doyle, whom he of course does not recognize at all. The confrontation between fiction’s most famous detective and the fictionist who became a leading advocate of spiritualism provides an climatic showdown for Mr. Nassivera’s speculative play. 

Yeah… I’ll just leave that here.

Bu also, wouldn’t that be a nice episode title - since they always have a variation of canon titles, even if it’s just ever so slightly as from Hounds to Hound - to call the episode that would have been called “The Final Problem” “The Penultimate Problem”? 

(After “abominable” not a single word of the English language can be ever too fancy again.)

And finding out what made Sherlock is not the Final Problem, it is the Penultimate Problem - something leading up to the Final Problem. As many people have already said, you cannot burn the heart out of Sherlock as long as he’s not aware that he’s got one. 

Therefore, the penultimate series, series 4, is going to set the stage for the last big showdown in series 5.

And I really wouldn’t be surprised if all we get for 4x03 is the resolution of the Mycroft-problem (26 pages of dialogue), therefore what really happened in TRF + the “fake” handshake scene with Moriarty, maybe Garridebs, a sort of a “happy ending”, because everything seems to be resolved when there’s only 3 minutes of episode left, and then BAM - Moriarty’s helicopter lands, and THIS is going to be the cliffhanger of series 4.

Moriarty is always the cliffhanger. In every series. Why not this time? 

(Can you tell that I’m excited? I hope so.)

@mollydobby @jenna221b @miadifferent @isitandwonder @tjlcisthenewsexy @makeyourdeduction @victorianlovers @johnnlocked @hudders-and-hiddles @inevitably-johnlocked

WOW!!!!! This is a great find…what was it? “Ghosts of the past are rising in the lives of Sherlock and John…”? I totally think you’ve cracked it, this play sounds right up Moftiss’s street. I am on board for “The Penultimate Problem”, nice one!

We are dangerously close to playing The Insider’s Game here. A game that Holmesian’s have played in the fraternities for decades, and it’s always been kept secret. It’s not The Game you hear about which has readers choosing to believe Holmes and Watson were real. The idea is that everyone, except Sherlock, are aware they are a character in a story, but until Sherlock works it out they can never resolve their arcs/plots. So they are doomed to never die and return to do the same things in the stories over and over. They are either bad or good, and cannot change, even though the characters try. The creator, Doyle, is the God Head in the game and is the only one who can bring Sherlock to self awareness and thereby end the game. The game was played, in similar fashion to our metas, where the Holmesians would scrutinise any new pastiche for break throughs in the progress of Sherlock becoming self aware. 

There is no written history of this practice. I only know as my Dads were in Holmesian societies and told me about it, it’s like the secret masonic stuff.   About three years ago there was a blogger on here who was encouraging us to play it, then they just disappeared. Last year I discussed it with LSiT and she couldn’t find out anything on it. This play sounds like it broke ground and used the premise. Believe me, if I know about this practice, Mark and Steven do too.

Here is a link to a detailed description of the play:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0Cbfq1zm-2sC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=the+penultimate+problem+of+sherlock+holmes&source=bl&ots=xo_3vNvUI-&sig=pdJOAkC_shfEblMznu2nqcNvxjY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjerc6AtajOAhXJDMAKHbXdBNgQ6AEIOjAG#v=onepage&q=the%20penultimate%20problem%20of%20sherlock%20holmes&f=false

It is considered a comedy!!!!

GO READ THIS PLAY!!

There’s nothing new under the sun…. thanks for the link @welovethebeekeeper. 

@mollydobby @jenna221b @miadifferent @isitandwonder @monikakrasnorada @ebaeschnbliah @may-shepard @longsnowsmoon5 @sherlock-little-weed

OMFG @welovethebeekeeper masonic holmesian conspiracies skdjjdjskkskdnd thank you for this yummy bit of biz, you tweaked my secret society rabbithole happy feels super hard with your contribution to this post!

Thematically, and based on some of Ben C’s comments, there is a pinnochio quality to our Sherlock–he’s undergoing a process of re-immersion in the world, anchored by John. The idea that he needs to become self aware / aware of who made him also relates to the evidence some people were kicking around that he is a victim of mind control and Mycroft is his handler (“author”).

ETA because I’m still freaking out about this a bit: 

Read the freaking notes here! Genius people!!!

bringing this back because of recent developments

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miadifferent:

1895itsallfine:

hopelesslybenaddicted:

1895itsallfine:

So this NY Times reviewer who didn’t like S3 and wants Sherlock to be inhuman didn’t seem to like TST very much.