[acd voice]: so like forty years ago or whatever, there was this guy, he was so. hot. and like, so. smart? and i was like, what if we had adventures together? and accidentally immortalized us both
So I was rewatching some jolly unaired pilot (it was painful), and when Sherlock was writing his emails, I came across this:
(4:05)
To: gregson@ftnu.co.uk
Subject: Re: RE: Church bell theft
“If you can see the church from the bedroom window, Davies is your man.”
(4:14)
To: jones@j
I wonder if BBC did not expand the production team’s budget, would Athelney Jones and Tobias Gregson be included in the show? if not, why were they mentioned? What was the purpose of showing these emails?
I have a feeling it was more for the viewers who know the canon stories. But we have no way of knowing if they intended to put those characters in at any point and decided against it
Hey folks, so @lediona25 thought it might be fun to start a fic book club where we all choose a fic and read it together and discuss. We were wondering if anyone else would be interested in joining?
We want to start in December, like with a holiday themed fic. And if we get enough interest we might need a better forum to discuss in, if someone has a good suggestion of a good chat app?
As @lediona25 just said to me, we just need to pick the fic!!
I was actually quite shy at school, and I had a stammer so I went to a speech therapist to help me with exams and we did a bit of acting and I thought, ohh, this seems good. I was in Weston Super Mare in a huge school, and I was terrible at school. I left when I was 15 without any O levels. So I had no real options. I did some comic monologues, touring round the West country, and I did alright in those. And then the circus came into town and they’d lost a clown. Very carelessly! So I got on a bus & walked into the tent and said hello! The Government actually paid me 25 quid a week on a youth training scheme, well no – they paid the circus, to train me as a clown. Drama school would have been great, but I just didn’t have any money to get a grant as I had no O levels. I was just so naive and I was just from this small West Country town so I didn’t know how to do it. So I just joined the circus as my only way.
Rupert Graves questioned onstage at Sherlocked Oct 2017 –
Compere: When
you were at school, what made you want to become an actor?
something i find interesting about bbc sherlock is how mofftiss have actually changed the narrative so that sherlock is the central POV character rather than john
because acd’s canon is watson’s view on holmes, the audience is pre-programmed to think that we as spectators watching ‘sherlock’ align more closely with john, who is seen initially as an everyman, similarly ‘spectating’ sherlock and recording this as a blog
but within bbc sherlock, sherlock himself is really the main protagonist / POV character. we never get a complete picture of what john is thinking, yet we are consistently shown what’s going on in sherlock’s head.
i find it slightly humorous that john is seen as the ‘storyteller’ of the duo when really sherlock is the one to come up with lines such as “sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side”/”i may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that i am one of them”/”heroes don’t exist, john, and they did i wouldn’t be one of them” etc., in his usual dramatic fashion whereas the writing in john’s blog is … honestly not so good. what sherlock pretty much describes as ‘and then this happened, and then this happened, and then this’:
“So yes, we had a quick look at the flat and chatted to the landlady. Then the police came and asked Sherlock to look at a body so we went along to a crime scene, then we chased through the streets of London after a killer and Sherlock solved the serial suicides/murder thing.”
through TAB taking place within sherlock’s mind palace, sherlock essentially flips the script by having acd’s ‘victorian sherlock’ technically be sherlock’s reimagining of he and john’s adventures on the blog. so ACD’s sherlock holmes stories aren’t actually watson’s view on holmes, but sherlock’s view of john’s view on himself. gee whizz.
if you get really deep into this it means that all the logical inconsistencies and fallacies in ACD’s stories can actually be attributed to the unravelling of sherlock’s mind palace and the inconsistency of memory.
Brand New Pictures from Sherlocked Oct 2017 Pt 44 – Museum & Costume pictures Pt 12 –Props Display Box 2 Pt 3 – These
are my photos, so please do not repost Anywhere. You may make Edits with these
if you wish, but please put a link to this post as credit, thanks!(As you can see in some pics these actually have die-cut holes in them, which looks lovely. Also note Janine’s surname change!?)
10 months later and the sherlock mood is still none of it makes sense from any other perspective but moftiss haven’t said a word and i’m not sure what to believe anymore
@nixxie-pic has been so kind as to take pictures of the menu prop that was apparently used for the wedding scenes in TSOT. Thank you, @nixxie-pic for your effort! (For the whole set of their brilliant photographs, see here.)
Well, I have just noticed something about said menu. For this, I have edited the original photo just a tiny bit:
This is John’s wedding, right? So, shouldn’t we assume it MEANS something that there is an optional choice of *cough* ‘main course’…‘on the menu’ for John, so to speak?
The word ‘or’ means John can choose between two options, right? John’s two options are obviously: Mary or Sherlock.
And well, Mary is probably associated with the, erm, not-so-nice-word ‘tart’ here. Whereas Sherlock is…well…Sherlock is some spectacularly rare piece of meat, apparently.:D
Look, I don’t want to overanalyse this, and I’m sure not every ingredient on this menu has to mean something.
But look what shows up on Mary’s ‘side’ of the menu: The dessert which is also a pun: you’re ‘profiting’ by playing a ‘role’. (Also, profiteroles are basically just stuffed windbags, so that made me laugh.)
Sherlock’s ‘side’ of the menu, on the other hand, has the word ‘mine’ right on top of it. Because that’s what Sherlock is: He’s John’s!
Seriously, this show!!!:D
They really love themselves some puns, don’t they?
(Thank you again, @nixxie-pic for taking these pictures for us. They really made an otherwise rather gloomy day much better for me and made me smile.)
First, if I had a MINESTRONE for a wedding, I would my gift back ;-P But we can also say that before John had a mix of vegetables (people and sexes) but then he will end up with … balls !?
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