"MOFFAT: We thought [the popularity level of Sherlock] would be like an audience of four million and..."

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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])

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Oh my god.

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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?

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