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December 12, 2016
miadifferent:
constancecream:
thesetison:
Una revealed in an interview published today that some...
Una revealed in an interview published today that some of the cast filmed briefly in Bristol for this series.
Benedict and I are very affectionate with each other too and he often comes to me for a hug - there are quite a lot of those! That’s when he’s not teasing me with the other boys, Martin [Freeman] and Rupert [Graves, who plays DI Greg Lestrade]; they treat me like one of the boys and they expect me to give as good as I get! We had to spend a night in Bristol for the new series and we all went out for dinner, which was such fun - but poor old Benedict couldn’t come because he had pages and pages to learn. His dedication is admirable.
There are lots of possibilities about where and when they could have filmed in Bristol as they obviously managed to sneak that one past us. However, I’ve got some word-of-mouth info I’ve been holding onto because I hand’t been able to confirm it at all, but it offers a potential location for this filming. This is still super unconfirmed–so take it with a grain of salt–but Una’s quote makes me think it’s at least a real possibility, which is why I’ve decided to post it now and let you make of it what you will. I’m gonna stick it under a cut though, just because it is less evidenced than the setlock things I usually like to post.
I think there’s a real possibility that you’re onto something with your anon.
Look at this tweet from early May:
A green screen and Victorian lanterns in a street that looks quite similar to the one you posted!
For once it’s interesting that both our links to Bristol, Leslie’s anon and Tom Guy’s coffin pic in the Pinewood Studios, reference a time periode, where they filmed for ep. 1.
For Mike Parker’s pic (do we know that he worked for Sherlock at this time?): I can’t find a match on Orchard Street. Orchard Street also seems to be too wide. Orchard Lane and Avenue (both crossing Orchard Street) seem to be more fitting.
December 11, 2016
weeesi:
Just speculating:
That scene: John and Mycroft aren’t real. Mycroft represents intellect,...
Just speculating:
That scene: John and Mycroft aren’t real. Mycroft represents intellect, John represents more earthy pleasures aka the reality of love and attachment and all that comes with that. Sherlock is being forced to choose, to “kill” one for the sake of the other. The Final question, the choice: does the great Sherlock Holmes choose love or intellect?
Mycroft of course wants Sherlock to remain above it all and choose intellect.
John says nothing.
How can Sherlock be sure of what to do?! John’s not offering anything, he thinks. John’s stuck. Frozen. Silent. He knows what his brother wants him to do, Mycroft keeps prodding and prodding until finally Sherlock decides to take the risk. He interrupts and says the words… to Mycroft, and shoots him.
Finally John can speak. John, his heart.
Horrified we think Mycroft is dead at first - quelle horreur he killed his brother! - but then it’s revealed to be the mind palace
Nice! I’d love this.
"MOFFAT: We thought [the popularity level of Sherlock] would be like an audience of four million and..."
MOFFAT: We thought [the popularity level of Sherlock] would be like an audience of four million and some obscure award from a Polish festival, or something like that. We thought it’d be that level.
It happened so completely suddenly; we’d barely finished the show, and it’s this enormous hit, and there seemed to be no intervening moment of escalation.
GATISS: [But] in the same sort of way, you can’t make it for anyone other than yourself.
Just because people get cross at the notion that Sherlock might fall [motions air-quotes] in a species of love… doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
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Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, on dealing with audience expectations in the wake of Sherlock’s unplanned-for popularity.
(MGEITF appearance: Sherlock Masterclass, August 2012 [x])
[ Skulls & Tea | Sherlock Creator Quotes Collection ]
(via skulls-and-tea)
Oh my god.
(via bakerstreetstorytime)
I had to watch this. I couldn’t even believe he said that last part. He said it. Why has anyone even argued about this since Aug 2012?
(via 1895itsallfine)
Who’s Culverton Smith
shff:
I was talking to Kate @propergenius yet again which means I was thinking about things and we were discussing who Culverton Smith like, really is?
Idk if anyone’s talked about this yet I’m just. Throwin it out into the sphere.
We’ve been getting business man vibes from him the entire time with the setlock info we’ve been provided and shit, but we’ve also been getting lots of doctor vibes (which makes sense since canon Culverton Smith was a doctor) with the nurses and the hospital beds and the IVs and stuff.
We never seen him wear scrubs or anything, quite unlike a regular doctor, and in the trailer we see him prying to hear Sherlock talk about emotions:
So, given all of that, my first thought was: psychiatrist. I mentioned this to Kate and she expanded on it a bit. What if Culverton is a conversion therapist or some psychiatrist with otherwise hostile practices that he uses on people and Sherlock intervenes and gets caught in his web?
Just something to think about. Perhaps they’re really gonna hit even harder on defeating homophobia than just using Thatcher.
Oh my god!!! Steven said this about Culverton Smith in Crime Scene Magazine: “Culverton Smith is completely different. He’s the darkest villain we’ve ever had. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock is actually appalled by him. He’s the most evil villain we’ve had. I don’t think that, when you see it, you will disagree. He’s horrific.” credit to (nixxie-fic for the quote)
I had wondered how they could have a new villain even worse than Moriarty or Magnussen, and this makes sense. Magnussen attacked people who are different and preyed on their secrets, and Sherlock referred to him as a shark. He was a blackmailer, a man who used information against people to gain power. But if Culverton Smith is a conversion therapist or otherwise corrupt psychiatrist I can see how they’ve created a villain that is even darker and more evil than him. If this is what Culverton Smith is, he’s the most horrific villain indeed.
I mean, it’s terrifying and will be hard to watch, but if this is what they’re doing, the message is going to be crystal clear. They’ll be able to directly address the kind of homophobia we’re seeing from the antis. It’s characteristically brilliant.
I’m on board. We’ve seen nothing to indicate he’s a medical doctor. And if it’s not conversion therapy outright, I bet it’s there in subtext.
So here’s what I’m wondering: how does John’s bisexuality play into this? Smith is a dark mirror of him…we know John’s sister is gay…we know he has a practically non-existent relationship with his parents…basically, we know he’s closeted…so if this is what they’re doing with Smith’s character, what does it mean for John?? Because honestly, while Sherlock’s never SAID it, he’s never DENIED being gay in all the times it’s brought up in the show.
@shff …… Duuuuuuuuuude………
Omg! This! Yes!
if he’s a conversion psychiatrist then I think that Henry’s therapist in THoB freshdows this. She means well but keeps telling him that his feelings aren’t real, etc. I’ve always seen her as a therapist who’s trying to convince someone they’re not queer and the Hound project as the failed project of conversion by psychiatry.
We know he’s the head of a reality show from setlock. So there’s that. Whatever he’s doing, it is likely somehow tied to his show. However, he may still be a doctor or psychiatrist who has a show?
deducingbbcsherlock:
I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a...
I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me…
You’d be surprised.//No I wouldn’t.
This face is haunting me.
I don’t think that’s a John Watson expression we’ve seen before, in reality or mind palace. Anticipation. Hope.
John knows what’s coming.
I don’t see anticipation and hope at all. To me this expression is more like a last silent goodbye, as if John knows he’s going to die. I hope I’m wrong though. It almost looks like tear tracks on his face.
Love, and who knows it
Fundamental truths of Sherlock: Sherlock loves John, and John loves Sherlock. That is simply true, and there is no counter argument. You can (if you like) get into the finer details about what kind of love and what it means, what specific desires it implies, but the fact of it (love, mutual) is not in question. So, within this narrative so far, does John know that Sherlock loves him?
Is there any possible way that he doesn’t already know this?
John has learned a lot about Sherlock’s feelings in the last year or so. There was the whole faked death situation (not good), but since then, Sherlock has both inadvertently and deliberately articulated his feelings about John to John.
When John asked Sherlock to be his best man, John got a look into Sherlock’s inner workings: for all his ego, Sherlock had no idea that he was John’s best friend. Would anyone guess that Sherlock Holmes required that kind of explicit conversation to understand the nature of his most critical relationship? So what did Sherlock think had been going on on this time, John must have asked himself. I’m not sure he’d come up with an easy answer.
You could comfortably say, because of that profound misunderstanding, that it would be difficult for John to be certain that Sherlock loves him. John has a lot of questions about Sherlock (99% of which are about his sexuality and romantic inclinations) that Sherlock has never answered.
But then there was that speech Sherlock wrote and delivered. And it was pretty clear from his speech that John is the greatest thing Sherlock’s ever seen, greater, even than crime solving and drugs. Sherlock expressed his love for John in that speech, so much so that John and the entire audience had a cry. Is it a surprise to him at that point? I think it is. Is the surprise that Sherlock feels these things at all, or is it that he was (finally) willing to say so, and that he said so in front of an audience? Or all these of those things? In any case, there it is: Sherlock loves you, John.
If, by some chance, Sherlock’s speech failed to communicate to John that Sherlock loves him, Sherlock goes ahead and makes the point it a few more times.
John most definitely sees the look on Sherlock’s face at his reception, post pregnancy deduction. That is the face of a man with a broken heart. Is there any way John doesn’t know what he’s seeing? I don’t think there is. He ducks away from it. He jokes his way out of it, badly. If there’s one moment where John has to unequivocally confront Sherlock’s feelings about him, that had to be it. And Sherlock walks away alone.
Sure: Sherlock lies to John about his fake heterosexual relationship with Janine just to watch jealous steam rise out of his ears, but it’s possible John was in no state to process that little tidbit as the passive aggressive bullshit it is. And sure: Sherlock comes back to life for love of John. But John doesn’t know that, only we know that. Sherlock then risks his life again and ends up in an ambulance with a cardiac arrest so he can unmask Mary because John is in danger. But John doesn’t know exactly why Sherlock did that, either. John wasn’t in Sherlock’s mind palace with us, so he won’t know those details.
But Sherlock’s more overt emotional demonstrations continue. He throws his life away by putting a bullet in the head of the guy threatening John’s future. Oh, but that was for Mary, I hear you saying. Well, okay. That sounds fake, but okay, I’ll give you that. Even if you say that’s for Mary, there’s yet another moment that’s pretty undeniable.
What do you think John is expecting Sherlock to say on the tarmac? I don’t know if John’s ready to hear it, but do you think it’s possible that he isn’t expecting a love confession in that moment?
Sherlock hasn’t said so in those precise three words to John before, but I’m pretty sure John already knows that Sherlock loves him.
Just thought this would be useful to consider as context. Who knows what might happen next.
Lovely words. Actually, your reasoning made me feel clearer about why Morris’s had written certain moments into HLV. I would agree that after the wedding, John thought Sherlock loved him–between that speech and the look on the dance floor. But then we have the Janine proposal moment in which Sherlock says in the elevator that sentiment is a weakness in the cold way. And John reacts with stunned silence. I’d say that was put in deliberately to back John off the conclusion that Sherlock loves him.
After Sherlock’s shooting, in 221b, John confirms this by saying “who would he bother protecting?” That’s showing his state of mind at the time. Sherlock has reconfirmed for John (via Janine) that he doesn’t feel things that way. Then Sherlock tells John to go back to Mary, not the act of a man in love. And then right after he shot Magnussen, Sherlock tells John to give his love to Mary. Another moment of wtf-ery that is sure to send John spiraling down the wrong path. I hated that line, and I suppose the reason it’s there is to mislead John, and perhaps the audience, once again.
So no, I don’t think John knows. I think there have been times when he suspected, but then Sherlock has either deliberately or inadvertently thrown him off track.
gloriascott93:
deducingbbcsherlock:tfw you finally tell the...
tfw you finally tell the missus you actually did read the flash drive containing all her evil doings and you’ve actually been tracking her ass for months
From your fingers to the gods’ ears.
isitandwonder:
master-of-heroes:
luckyonesjournal:
b-uckland:
...
They are talking.
I think I’m dying
they fucking enjoy tormenting us
God I hate them
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