masterofhounds:

zigster-ao3:

pagimag:

gingerbbatch:

“The coat was actually a couple of years old. What happened is that another chap did the pilot and he found that coat. When I took the project on, I inherited all those original costumes from the pilot. It was the only thing I kept. It was such a lovely coat – a classic. We had three of them because we obviously do stunts and need doubles. It is a lovely coat – really perfect for Benedict. He loved it, I loved it and everyone else seemed to.“ 

– Sarah Arthur, costume designer

Benedict uses theatrical tricks on screen that usually would belong on stage, but since he’s Sherlock-the-drama-queen he gets away with it.

In the first gif he uses both of his hands in the pockets to make the coat rotate more dramatically. The coat flows a little further out from his body since he extends his arms slightly as he turns.

In the sixth gif he does the same trick, only a bit more obvious. He lets the wind open up the coat before adjusting it.

In the seventh gif his right hand moves the open coat forward to let the wind in. Normally you’d compensate for the flowing coat and let your hand pass further out to not get stuck.

The coat is marvelous on its own, with its weight and wide cut, but it takes a very consciously physical actor to give it life and really make it flow.

Swishy swish.

As a theatrical costume designer, this coat is a dream. It’s pure magic, and I loved Pagimag’s descriptions of how Benedict accentuates the natural flow and weight of the coat to add more drama to Sherlock’s movements. 

And can we talk about the addition of the red thread around the button holes? I’ve read two accounts as to how this came about. One was that it was Ben’s idea, to add a bit of color and draw the eye, and the other was that the costume designer added it for the same reasons. Either way, the red is utterly perfect, as is the famous coat. May it never be lost or replaced. 

Coat porn.

acdoyles:

bless jeremy brett for what he did with the canon and how much he cared about it; he payed an enormous tribute to both conan doyle and his character. i feel pretty confident when i say that there was no greater nor more faithful holmes portrayal before his time and it’s unlikely there will ever be a better one in the future. it will be very hard to beat him.

Johnlock s4 Hug Anniversary!

thelanding:

love-in-mind-palace:

one-thousand-splendid-stars:

sherlolo-land:

On Jan 8, it’s going to be a year since the best moment of s4
happened  – Sherlock and John hug each other after John has a breakdown.
It was such a tender moment, and we believe it deserves some more
recognition.

“Well, wait a minute, Sherlolo-land, they already have so many great moments in the past, why are you posting that we celebrate this one?”

Because
s4 was an atrocity and this was the moment that stood out to every
johnlocker. It was raw. It was emotional. They’ve both been through the
wringer. They needed each other, and they needed this. Any johnlocker
that has either hated s4 or was okay with it will definitely agree that
this was their favorite scene.

We’re calling out all the
johnlockers that are here to come together on that day and fill the tag
with all the content about this emotional moment: art, fics, gifs, meta,
comments, anything that involves the Hug scene. And if a lot of you
have already done any of that, Jan 8 would be a good time to either
reblog or upload again!

After all Johnlock is
canon, no matter how badly Mofftiss screwed up their chance to make
history with the modernized Sherlock BBC and botched their own show. “Perhaps in another era?” It’s already been done. They’re canon.

We’re
going to track the tag #JohnlockHugAnniversary2018, so please, include
this in your post’s tags, so that everyone can see and share your
contribution!

To sum up

When: Monday, Jan 8

What to post:
You can post anything you want for this day. You are welcome to make
NSFW posts, but please note that this blog will only reblog SFW.

Theme: The Hug scene from The Lying Detective.

Tag: JohnlockHugAnniversary2018

We understand s4 is not your cup of tea – it wasn’t ours either – but this moment deserves to be celebrated again.

Remember this one as well. Even if it was on the set, it still counts on how much we loved these two.

I’m down for this!

Me too

I’m in

educatedinyellow:

This is Sidney Paget’s original painting of the Reichenbach Falls for The Final Problem. I love how luminous the water looks! (Sorry I can’t find any larger image, the painting is privately owned and I think this may be the only photo that has been made available online).

I got this from a useful website that collates the images and traces the histories of all the known surviving original paintings from Paget’s Holmesian works. Out of the more than 350 illustrations he did for those stories, only 39 originals are believed to have survived to the present day. Of course we have the prints of them that appeared in The Strand, but as you can see, a lot of the color and vibrancy of the paintings can get lost in translation.

The editions of the ‘Adventures,’ ‘Memoirs,’ and ‘Return’ series of Holmes short stories that I read as a child had Paget’s illustrations in them, so I internalized them early. I was surprised and saddened to learn that he did not illustrate the later stories because he died terribly young. He was only 47 years old when he passed away due to a rare form of cancer. I believe that his final illustrations for Holmes came in the ‘Return’ series of 1903-1904. He died in 1908.

Looking at a photograph of him, I see certain strong resemblances to a certain intrepid consulting detective. Particularly in the hairline 🙂

image

I’ll always be very grateful to him for his beautiful work. He brought so much to those stories.

yorkiepug:

twocandles:

inneisme:

sussexbound:

twocandles:

I was wondering, if, IF they did a complete 180 in S5 and made Johnlock canon either by erasing all of S4 or actually have them work through their issues, would any of you who have rejected S4 and the show go back to it? Would you ship it again?

I guess the last part is me asking myself because as it stands now, I can’t ship Johnlock anymore in this adapation. And I don’t have an answer to this at the moment. I’m really not sure I want to invest my heart into this show again.

But how about everyone else?

@sussexbound @yorkiepug 

@twocandles I never stopped shipping it, because I’ve just sort of taken the characters and done what I want with them Post-S4, and all my fannish engagement has been with fan-created works along the same vein.  Sometimes that means a fix-it.  Sometimes that means ignoring all or some of S4.  I’m pretty flexible, other than the fact that I personally can’t interact with content that accepts TFP in any way.

But then, I also shipped it before BBC Sherlock, because I had loved the Granada series and the ACD canon first, before I ever saw BBC Sherlock.  I’ve always shipped it.  I always will.  Plus, I liked what Martin and Ben did with their versions of John and Sherlock, I liked the idea of plopping them down in modern day London, and meeting them early on, giving them a chance to grow into the men they would later become (which disappointingly the show dropped the ball on, imo).  So I still like to play with the BBC characterisations in a limited and adapted way.

As for the show itself, there is nothing that could bring me back.  I feel like the writers have made it clear that they always saw the idea of John and Sherlock being an actual couple as nothing more than a tease or a joke they would play to until they couldn’t play to it anymore (which they later admitted they possibly took too far).  In fact, Mark Gatiss had been outright stating they had no intention of going there since Mumbai ComiCon in Dec. 2015, and reiterated that point here during a Tumblr Q&A just before S4 aired.  

In the end, I think it was clear that they decided to go the TPLoSH route, of pining gay man, hopelessly in love with an indifferent, and straight ‘friend’, which doesn’t interest me, and which I feel runs in direct contradiction to the way the story had been presented all the way up to TAB, as well as the way the actors had been interpreting the characters’ relationship in earlier seasons.  

Finally, there was the way Moffat and Gatiss treated their young queer and/or female fans, and the way the BBC chose to market the show, knowing it was never going there, as well as the way they treated people who complained about the queerbaiting, or general loss of writing/production quality post-S4.  

In short, I don’t trust the writers or producers at all anymore, and don’t want them to ever get another cent of my money.  So no, I would not go back to watching or loving any new seasons of the show, no matter what they do with it.  At this point it would just feel like they were back-peddling in response to fan outrage in an attempt to make a few more bucks.  But, really the whole thing is sort of a moot point anyway, as I don’t think that the writers have any interest in or the intention to write any more seasons (they’re moving on to Dracula), not to mention that I think it would be a very hard sell to their very busy and successful leads, after the mediocre critical reception of S4.

So, if you can find a way to make John and Sherlock your own and keep shipping them that way, then I wish you all the joy in that, and if you can’t, if you just want to wash your hands of the pairing forever because it’s too painful, I can understand that too.  

I continue to ship them, because I’ve always shipped them, and I’ve made my peace with how I want to engage with the content in the BBC adaptation.  It works for me, and I imagine I will continue to engage with fan-created content set in that universe for as long as fans are creating it.  But I’m leaving those involved with the creation of the show itself behind me.

I can’t imagine a season 5 that would make me want to watch again (and I don’t think there’ll be one.) There was very little in season 4 I liked and nothing at all I loved. The characterisation of both Sherlock and John strayedtoo far from what I fell in love with in the first seasons. So I’m here for fan content – be it ignoring season 4 or fixing it, as some fantastic fic writers have been able to do.

Thank you so much to everyone who has commented here! I’m probably forgetting people: @very-grumpy-bisexual @lediona25 @readingfanficsblog @elskudani @inthenameofunrequitedfeels (ah yes, thanks tumblr for being useless)

I hadn’t even thought about it much when I yelled this question into the void but @sussexbound you bring up so many important points. One of the biggest is that I also can’t support Mofftiss anymore. These two arrogant bastards are so full of themselves but then show a complete lack of respect for parts of their fanbase, I never want to see their poison again. I’m still pondering whether I want to yell about them constantly to warn others or just ignore them entirely but that constant level of negativity might not exactly be good for me.

I did realise though that whenever I’ve abandoned a show in the past, no matter what the reason, I usually didn’t go back to it. And in this case I’m actually thinking of selling my merch, which I haven’t even done with the other things I’ve lost interest in, so it’s definitely a very bad case. And I am looking forward to the third Ritchie Holmes movie, if that is still happening but I also need to force myself not to get my hopes up too high. Some of the old adaptations/shows have a special place in my heart but I also feel like I need a very big break away from Sherlock Holmes adaptations in general, Mofftiss have put a complete damper on my enjoyment of the entire franchise that I haven’t been able to shake off yet.

I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy Johnlock again in this version, even if S5 happens and isn’t a complete mess. The damage has been too severe. I do assume that no Johnlock will ever happen in this show and while I’m sure it’s vaguely possible to still ship them in a future series for myself I think that’s not happening. It sucks that I can’t even enjoy fanworks anymore but it’s probably better that way, I wouldn’t have been able to move on otherwise.

@twocandles sorry for the late reply!

So I have a lot of opinions about this, shocking right?

First of all, I never stopped shipping Johnlock, even in this version. I  honestly just ignore S4 exists at all. And the fandom has ALWAYS written this show better than Mofftiss have. The fandom wrote better resolutions to the pool showdown. The fandom wrote better resolutions to the fall. The fandom wrote better resolutions to Mary shooting Sherlock and the end of S3. And the fandom has been doing their best to make something out of the trash heap that was S4. I really personally just can’t enjoy post S4 fics. I don’t like Rosie, I don’t like the resolution of what they did with Mary, I don’t like anything that happened in TLD. I don’t like Churros.

Now onto the real question. Would I watch S5? Will I be happy if Johnlock happens then? Here’s some possible ideas of how S5 could go down and how I feel about them.

1. They continue as they are. Everything we saw happened just like we saw it. John and Sherlock continue on as friends. John is raising his daughter. John doesn’t live in 221B. They solve crimes. John still has his ring on and mourns his awful dead wife. Maybe they’ll even still have AA narrate and send her dumb fucking videos? God that sounds awful. I’m not interested, thanks. Even if they decided to go the johnlock route after all that, it would be so hallow, it would feel so cheap.

2. The whole E/M/P thing, it’s all a coma or a dream. It starts from ASiP or after the fall or after the shooting, whatever. I can see why people cling to this idea so strongly, Wouldn’t that be nice if we could go back and erase everything and have a fresh start and all the bullshit in S3 and 4 weren’t what they seemed. I just don’t believe it’s possible. What are they going to do? Cake Ben and Martin in makeup to hide their age? CGI their faces to make them look years younger? Other than the fact that I hate the whole “it was all a dream” plot line, it’s just bad and lazy writing to make a whole season fake. And for what? Just so you could have your moments of shock or surprise just to erase it all later? Again, no thanks.

3. Then there’s the unreliable narrator theory. That things are not what they seems in S4 and didn’t actually happen or not the way we think they did. Now, while I actually LIKE this theory….in well, theory, I again sadly just don’t see this actually happening. I don’t think it’s doable either. And honestly, how awful S4 was to sit through would not make this worth it for me. I think it makes for great fic though.

And then my own personal dream situation #4. Mofftiss are both fired and shamed for their awful writing. The show is given to people who actually care about the characters and a coherent plot and we forget S4 ever happened and someone new makes everything right. I just love Ben and Martin as these characters so much, it’s hard to let them go.

NOW to be 100% honest I don’t think there is any way to redeem this show. John Watson is my favorite character. I will NEVER forgive Mofftiss for what they did. TLD was an utter pile of crap and they should be ashamed of themselves for not only what they did with John but how they treated Sherlock as well. I don’t think there is any coming back from their mess. I’m not interested in anymore of Mofftiss crap. I will not be watching anything else they write or are show runners of. They can go fuck themselves. 

And to agree with @sussexbound I can also never forgive Mofftiss for how they treated fans. They are two arrogant douchebags who don’t deserve the fans they have.  BBC can also go straight to hell for how they baited the fans with their adds and their bbc three tumblr (I don’t give two fucks if it was just a fan of the show having fun, it was irresponsible the BBC should have NEVER let that go on). BBC Sherlock will hopefully be a lesson to others of how NOT to do things in the future.

BUT I’m such a huge supporter and fan of the fic writers and the artist who are doing things right. Thank jebus for you all. I still ship Johnlock. I still love these characters. Honestly the show has been an utter mess since S3 and the fandom has always had to clean up Mofftiss messes with their dumb plots and poor writing.  I think I’ll always love John and Sherlock and I’m not going to let Mofftiss ruin something I love. They can kiss my ass.

watsonshoneybee:

and even recognizing that mark and moff are both white cis (though not het) upperclass men, i don’t think at this rate you can argue that they control the current narrative of sherlock holmes. sherlock may have brought holmes back into the modern era in a big way, but the narrative has fundamentally changed. holmes’ sexuality will now be up for debate with every new adaptation. fandom creates, and out of fandom creation comes the new narrative. in a heartbeat, with sherwin and jonathan, is shortlisted for an oscar. miss sherlock will hopefully be bringing women into the fold more than ever before. how many of us are writing, and not only for ao3 but for publishers like improbable press and carnation books, and using those opportunities as stepping stones into bigger, better, brighter projects that will someday steal the spotlight? 

we here are the narrative of sherlock holmes, the same way historical holmesian societies have provided the narrative since the 1910s and 20s and 30s and 40s. they were no more than fans the way we are fans, and we are bigger, we are faster, we are more connected, compiling more information and hosting bigger discussions and questioning even the most sacrosanct terms of sherlock holmes’ nature. the narrative will be the one we make it. 

Since August that I haven’t seen anything about Sherlock, and now that I’m back at the fandom I’m noticing that a few months ago fans were full of hate and understandable criticism, but now they seem to “accept” s4, and they/we are starting to concentrate on what we have, study it and theorize it with absolutely clever ideas. I can confirm that we went through the phases of grief, and we’re in the last one: 0 Shock* 1 Denial 2 Anger 3 Bargaining 4 Depression 4.1Testing* 5 Acceptance.

linkswriting:

inevitably-johnlocked:

Hey Nonny!

Yeah, I’ve noticed that too, LOL. We had grief that S4 was a trainwreck, and now we’ve accepted that it’s a trainwreck and are writing it the way it should have been. 😛 Bless this fandom, tbh.

So very true.