perfectly sound analysis but i was hoping you’d go deeper
sherlock making this joke 🔪 and giving john this tiny little glimmer of a smile 🔪🔪🔪 and john just staring at him in utter disbelief like he can’t even figure out how he’s managed to end up with this utterly gorgeous and insanely brilliant man flirting with him at a crime scene 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 and only breaking off eye contact when lestrade wanders back in 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
they had a whole thing about secret twins and then didnt even make sherlock and eurus twins
they also have a whole thing about how a person could gake their own suicide by shooting themself in the head yet Moriarty really died by a suicide by shooting himself in the head
they have that thing too where they repeatedly tell us that shotgun wounds are not like the movies and don’t splash blood everywhere, and then mary’s death
July 2010. It is three weeks before the first series of Sherlock broadcasts on BBC One, and show creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are panicking. The BBC has suddenly brought forward the slot for their show “by a substantial amount”. As summer is already a difficult time to launch a series, Gatiss and Moffat are bewildered as to how they will promote it.
“We were sitting around with our heads in our hands,” Steven Moffat remembers, “going, ‘There isn’t enough time to do this. It will broadcast to no one.’ ”
This was when they joined Twitter.
“It was really only one step up from individually knocking on people’s doors and shouting, ‘Sherlock is coming!’ through their letter boxes,” Mark Gatiss explains. “We were almost… desperate.”
“What did we think we’d get?” Moffat muses.
“Four million viewers,” Gatiss replies.
“Four million viewers, tops, and a couple of nice broadsheet write-ups. That was our best-case scenario.”
On the night the debut episode – A Study in Pink – went out, the core cast and crew assembled at Moffat’s house in Kew to watch it, in a state of nervous tension.
Gathering around the wine – “a lot of wine” – were Martin Freeman (Dr Watson), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes), Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, the show’s producer, who is, handily, also married to Moffat, “which has, over the years, saved us a fortune on cabs”.
In the event, when Sherlock began, the Moffat party had to immediately pause it, as Benedict Cumberbatch still hadn’t arrived.
“He called us – he was stuck in a traffic jam on Baker Street,” Moffat recalls. “Sherlock Holmes, stuck on Baker Street! We couldn’t work out if that was a good sign or not.”
“I think he might have made that up, to be honest,” Gatiss says. “But it’s a really good lie.”
When Cumberbatch finally arrived, the party who made Sherlock watched the show ten minutes behind the rest of Britain.
“But we knew when the climax happened,” Gatiss beams, “because suddenly all our phones were going off, everyone texting, everyone phoning. I mean, exploding.”
“An hour later, I went and sat in the garden,” Moffat says, “and looked at Twitter. I saw that Benedict was trending worldwide on Twitter, Martin was trending worldwide, Sherlock itself was trending worldwide. And people were talking about it with this… passion. As if they were lifelong fans – when, of course, they’d not seen it 90 minutes ago. Everything had changed in 90 minutes.”
My dad won this thread when I put it on the bookface:
“The original WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast was on the radio.”
Mine did not have a tagline.
Because it was fucking APOCALYPSE NOW.
….accurate, though.
mine was ‘deliverance’ and i don’t know the tagline, if it had one, but the line everyone remembers is “he got a real purty mouth, don’t he?” so make of that what you will
“A comedy about one nice guy who gets pushed too far,“ or, alternatively, “He’s a man of peace in a savage land… Suburbia.”
I can’t sit here and claim that’s not pretty accurate.
Mine was “Hard to Kill”, which is apparently a Steven Seagal movie.
“The Empire Falls….”
Driving Ms Daisy
“It’s about life. It’s about love. It’s about us.” (The Color Purple)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…
fucking HANNIBAL. According to google the tag line is “His genius undeniable. His evil unspeakable.” Wow.
me, an aged monarch lounging on my fur-strewn throne, gesturing for my servant to bring me my monacle: Bring them here! Bring them here, I say. Let me look at them.
guards: *drag the unwitting blog before me*
me, peering intently at the new blog and poking them with my scepter: Is this a real person? Hmm? What have you to say for yourself? What are your fandoms? Your interests? Speak up, these old ears aren’t what they used to be.
guards, tentatively: they do seem to be a real person, sire. We found them in possession of several memes and a fandom rant.
me, subsiding back into my sumptuous furs and waving them away: most extraordinary. It has been an age since there was a real person, but just as well, the dungeons have been overflowing with those tacky pornbots. This newcomer may remain in my domain. Make them welcome. And fetch me a quill! I feel a ficlet coming on…
and one taught me patience because hOLY FUCKIGN SHIT NO ONE EVER TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE TO WAIT NINE (9) YEARS FOR THE GODDAMN THIRD INSTALMENT WHEN I SIGNED UP FOR THIS FRANCHISE IN 2010
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