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"Of course, not all the attention is so benevolent. Obsession breeds possessiveness, which can breed..."

“Of course, not all the attention is so benevolent. Obsession breeds possessiveness, which can breed something darker. Last year, Cumberbatch married the stage director Sophie Hunter, and they had a son, Christopher (nicknamed Kit). “There are people who believe that my wife is a P.R. stunt and my child is a P.R. stunt,” he says, unsure if he should even be bringing this up—he knows that there’s no arguing with conspiracy theorists. “I think really it’s to do with the idea that the ‘Internet’s boyfriend’ can’t actually belong to anyone else but the Internet. It’s impossible he belongs to anyone but me. And that’s what stalking is. That’s what obsessive, deluded, really scary behavior is.”

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 Vanity Fair, October 4, 2016

(via the–cumberbatches)

its-a-marvel-world:Benedict Cumberbatch for Vanity Fair 2016

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Benedict Cumberbatch for Vanity Fair 2016

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Vanity fair photoshoot behind the scenes

Source: http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/benedict-cumberbatch-cover-shoot

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devoursjohnlock:

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mollydobby:

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inevitably-johnlocked:

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johntheantivirus:

welovethebeekeeper:

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monikakrasnorada:

inevitably-johnlocked:

Okay. So I was making this gif for THIS ASK HERE, and I just… had to make a separate post about it because…

OKAY. WATCH THE GIF. WHEN JOHN STEPS ON THE TITLE,

IT GETS BIGGER.

I thought it was a GIF error, since when I make gifs I have it cut every second frame to cut down on the file size.

BUT IT ACTUALLY DOES THIS ON BOTH DIFFERENT DIGITAL COPIES I OWN. I haven’t checked my BluRay, so I can’t confirm that. The GIF starts at Timestamp 8:25 for anyone who wants to check.

As a designer who has dabbled in video editing this is an easy error to make, but surely a production as huge as this had a tonne of eyes checking it before it was sent out, and as far as I am aware, this was done months before it actually aired.

I think this was a deliberate thing… almost like “HEY THIS WHOLE THING IS SHERLOCK THINKING MARY IS AN ABOMINABLE BRIDE, LOOK EVEN JOHN THINKS IT”.

LIKE… the timing is TOO perfect for it to be a mistake. It literally enlarges JUST AS JOHN STEPS ON IT.

Someone please tell me I’m not crazy.

No, not crazy at all. All of the opening titles do that. Shift to slightly larger tiles. I love that this one coincided with John’s entrance, though. Maybe there is a correlation to all of them that we haven’t noticed yet?

waitingforgarridebs

You are positively killing me here, I just checked as well, it does that.

@WFG: thanks for the confirmation!

@monikakrasnorada: It is interesting! The only one I know for sure is the one in the pilot that is right over the Stature of Anteros, the god of requited love, which I believe was initially pointed out by LSiT.

Another case of them waiting a long time for a rather “pointless” shot in the episode to place the title in the screen. IT WAS A DELIBERATE CHOICE.

I went through all the other episodes, and while the jumpy text is common in all the opening credits, the title’s transition is always smooth when the text is growing or panning, except in TAB (i didn’t gif them, but just to give you an idea of where they are in the episode so you can check it out yourself):

With the exception of the aired ASiP and MHR, all of the titles happen within the first 30 seconds of the opening credits finishing.

I’m STILL SCREAMING AT THE HLV TITLE. SERIOUSLY. MOFFTISS HAS NEVER BEEN SUBTLE. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT THINK SHERLOCK DOESN’T LOVE JOHN. And nice touch with the MHR title.

Ugh.

Also TSoT with the two cups and the teapot? One is not like the others?

And yes, MHR basically illustrates John’s (and our) life in hell.

@monikakrasnorada

I’m sorry, @inevitably-johnlocked, I completely misspoke. I meant that  all the opening credits of TAB jumped like that. I thought there might have been some rhyme or reason to those. Sorry, totally my bad. But jesus, you are KILLING ME WITH THE HLV one!

ETA: Looking at TGG one. A black, blank screen? I mean, hello. We ARE in the dark on that one aren’t we? Just who is Moriarty, maybe?

YOU GUYS I’M DYING. I initially interpreted the “Many Happy Returns” were meant to be over candles because it’s another phrase for “Happy Birthday”, but you are so right, @the-abominable-bee: IT’S MEANT TO SYMBOLIZE HELL.

Monika, JESUS I KNOW RIGHT, RE: TGG??? I thought it was odd that it was the ONLY TITLE over a BLACK SCREEN THE ENTIRE TIME IT’S ON. It disappears before the episode begins proper.

HLV is interesting as I have thought since first viewing that the LAST VOW was John’s. IN TSOT we have Sherlock’s vow, then in HLV we get one from John: ‘Your way, always your way.’ It sums up John’s devotion and loyalty to Sherlock, it’s the quintessential John Watson vow. It’s how all Watsons are with their Holmes. The title being shown over John expecting Sherlock to come and save him from the wrong choice, the wrong domestic set up, is a red flag for us to know the progress of the future series.

The Sign of Three title is very telling also. We get the lovely shadow of Mrs Hudson who is going to foreshadow the events of the wedding with her story to Sherlock about her friend Margaret, and the to John in her story about her failed marriage to a murderer and crime boss!

The Empty Hearse is an empty tube carriage. Trains/tunnels/tubes/subways trope in film and tv is sex/sexual desire. Guess who is riding in one early in the episode and looking glum. John chooses the wrong sexual partner. It’s an empty relationship. In the end of the ep we have the bomb/heart scene and the tube carriage ready to explode, but Sherlock turns the switch off as it’s not time.

The Great Game on all black is wonderful. We are all in the dark.

The Blind Banker. Sherlock, having just fought with an assassin over a case, hides the event from John then sits serenely waiting John’s return and when he does Sherlock is the one to lend John money, with his credit card for groceries and then John asks him for a loan. Sherlock is the banker. Sherlock is blind to the damage his secrets will have on his relationship with John. He is also blind to the consequences of the turning John down at Angelo’s, as we see when Sarah arrives on the scene, and poor Sherlock was blind to how much that would hurt.

Reblog for brilliant addition! ☝

"A male actor in this series who has to have pretended not to know something, and he was unsure about..."

“A male actor in this series who has to have pretended not to know something, and he was unsure about what he knew when. So eventually I said just act like you know nothing. I think that’s easier. And then we don’t give anything away to the audience, there are no tells.”

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Mark Gatiss talks about Sherlock S4 at SDCC 2016 - (x)

“I’m just in it, I don’t know.” 
- Martin Freeman

(via ivyblossom)

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Do you think Sherlock really wants to connect to another person?

Benedict: What I think that he learns is that in order to be the best consulting detective he has to do that. To understand people better he has to become more of a person. It’s not just sentiment that makes him do it, it's effectiveness, as much as anything else. This friendship, he utterly relies on that, he’s loyal to Watson, Watson is loyal to him, because he takes him into the world in a way that makes it possible for him to function better as a detective, that's primarily where the friendship is formed.

Is it a real friendship? It seems like everyone in his life has some sort of a function.

Yes, that’s coldly true, but I think through that, as it’s the case, you form an affection. What maybe weakness to a degree, for other people that are trying to attack him, and use those soft points, those targets. In the end it makes him a greater person. It sounds a bit soppy this but…Love conquers all.

Sherlock Panel Comic Con 

marks’s smile at ben like :) we will have words after this

THIS IS STILL MY FAVOURITE THING FROM SDCC EVER. I CAN NEVER STOP LAUGHING AT MARK’S “WELP.” TO STEVE AND STEVE’S EPIC FACEPALM.

BEN’S SOFT FACE WHEN HE SAYS “LOVE CONQUERS ALL” uWu

Yes, truly the highlight of SDCC 2016 and the closest we’ll get to johnlock confirmation.

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So S4E3 is called A Question [For] Mark…

^I see what you did there @isitandwonder, nice one!

I’m starting to wonder if this episode is going to be some riff off ‘The Final Problem’, and the question mark is actually a title hint.  The plot of the canon story, “The Final Problem” has already been worked into TRF.  But there is nothing stopping them from just borrowing the title, and working in stuff from other canon stories under that umbrella. (they did this with TSoT and HLV in S3).

The final problem in our version has always been Sherlock’s love for John, whether that makes him weak and vulnerable, or stronger, whether he would allow himself to feel it, whether he could balance head and heart, and allow love to change him.  Moriarty, himself, hints at this in TRF.  

‘The Final Question’, perhaps?

Do you love me?

Will you come home?

Will you stay?

Always?

ETA: Okay. Until I’m told otherwise, I’m going with The Final Question. They did reveal it in the pic!

(There is this riddle, placed in a Holmes/Watson setting (I think). And Holmes receives a note, with only a “?” on it. And you have to deduce from this who you should talk to next. And the answer is “Question Mark”. 

So here we get the final episode title, the final question (mark). 

ETA2: The riddle.

OH!!! THIS IS GOOD.

I like it.

oh my god they already filmed the whole thing

inevitably-johnlocked:

oh my goshles, there exists on film the johnlock kiss.

I needed to be reminded of the blessings of the universe today. This tops the list.

Hi! Today a part of Benedict's interview for GQ Magazine has been published, and he talked about Sherlock series 4 and how it felt complete, like an end of an era, and he also said it would be hard to follow immediately on, hinting that s4 could be the las

I just saw that… jfc, why did Moftiss let him out of the dungeon. (x)

Because, I don’t read that as “it’s the last one”, they did that after every series so far, to sort of “hype” it - for whatever reason. 

I totally read that as #confirmed.

"I think these are the best scripts yet. I got goosebumps when I was reading them. They’re Really..."

“I think these are the best scripts yet. I got goosebumps when I was reading them. They’re Really exciting. I’m not gonna say anything about them cos that’ll spoil your enjoyment when you watch them, but I think the writing is phenomenal.”

- “Could you give us any hints about what to expect in the
upcoming season?”



- Rupert Graves at his Sunday talk at Sherlocked 2016 - (From notes taken
during the talk, so there might be slight errors in wording)