Tag: a study in pink

notagarroter:

thetimemoves:

As much as I love the main gang, there are a lot of interesting minor characters in Sherlock that I think make their own impact. Minor Character Monday is going to highlight some of my favorite minor characters, whether they had 20 lines or none.

First up, Helen from A Study in Pink. Her role was short, but memorable. Just two scenes in which she went from gushing romantic to heartbroken lover, but it still sticks with me. So does a bit of hair envy… (x)

I love this character too. I love how quickly and effectively the show reveals that she’s the lover, not the wife. Even though we don’t know these characters and we’ll never see them again, the conflicted emotions of the moment are palpable.

hudders-and-hiddles:

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 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

gandlfs:

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.”

He pauses for a minute, still looking surprised.

“Everything.” (X)

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acumberlockedgirl:

the-seven-fandom-solution:

why-cant-people-just-think:

one-thousand-splendid-stars:

why-cant-people-just-think:

It’s been 8 years and I still want to know,

Was that lip lick absolutely necessary John?

I was gonna ask which one cause John does this all the time but let’s be real we all know which one is…. The One

@one-thousand-splendid-stars you’re right. It’s The One.

Haha let’s look at it again.

Because who are we kidding. We can watch that for weeks.

^^^

Sadly it’s not a lip lick – it’s a lip push… which in body language terms is a whole heap of difference! Usually when you push your tongue out of your lips like that it’s because you either do not like the conversation (you are pushing it away) or you do not want to be where you are (you are pushing the situation away), the same as a baby pushes it’s tongue out when you’re trying to feed it food it does not like or want.. It’s a sign of deep discomfort and a need to get away or change the subject. We cannot see John’s hands but quite often it’s combined with self grooming (rubbing of hands on thighs or sides, sometimes your neck.). It can also mean a distaste of what we are hearing or ‘rejecting an idea’. http://bodylanguageproject.com/nonverbal-dictionary/body-language-of-tongue-protrusion-or-tongue-rejection/

So, sorry peeps but if you’re looking at above gif & thinking John is being sexual towards Sherlock in any way read the above article (and many more you can find online) and think about it again.

deducingbbcsherlock:

inevitably-johnlocked:

teaandforeshadowing:

inevitably-johnlocked:

cumberpaldi:

inevitably-johnlocked:

cantpronounce:

don-gately:

snarrylock:

rebootingcheesecake:

Applying the phone = heart metaphor from ASiB to this scene was a mistake

Now instead of sneaky nipple teasing all I can think about is John reaching inside Sherlock and taking hold of his heart while Sherlock tells him to “be careful” because it’s a fragile little thing and he can’t handle it getting broken:(

ooooh D:

who gave you the right

Oh god

… proof that Sherlock’s heart was taken in Series One. I think it’s interesting that we never actually see him giving back this phone in particular. Can this be paralleled with Irene’s phone? Is there a write up i can read? THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. Sherlock’s vulnerability is a weakness of mine.

Too lazy to write a full-blown meta, but this delicious lingering shot happened after Sherlock realized that love is destructive and it’s better to keep his growing feelings towards John locked up instead

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“Can I have my heart back the phone, John, please?”

Oh! I like that, as terribly sad as it is! OH. OH MY GOSH. I just had a thought. Sherlock throws away his phone on the rooftop in TRF, and we don’t know if the one Sherlock has in S3 is the same one (we just assume, but we never saw it given back to him… as an aside, I am STILL ANNOYED that we don’t know what came of that phone! Seems like a huge plot point to leave out!!). So, he had to throw away his heart to complete the mission… I think the next time we see the phone passed to Sherlock, going on this “heart is the phone’ metaphor, it will be John giving his own heart phone to Sherlock.

THIS MEANS THAT MORIARTY SENT HIS HEART TO SHERLOCK TO LURE HIM IN IN TGG

AND THAT JOHN WANTED HIM TO TAKE HIS HEART BACK FROM MARY IN TSOT

“BEFORE SHE COMES BACK” “FOR ME”

NOT TO MENTION THE SET UP OF THIS SCENE LOOKS LIKE JOHN IS LITERALLY REACHING INTO SHERLOCK’S CHEST YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE HIS ELBOW JESUS

AND SHERLOCK ALL BLINKY-LIKE WHEN HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND (that john wants to love him) LIKE WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO BE BEST MAN

“DON’T WORRY I’LL GET YOU OUT OF THIS (marriage)”

AND THAT THE VERY FIRST THING JOHN DID UPON MEETING SHERLOCK FOR THE FIRST TIME WAS LITERALLY AND WILLINGLY GAVE UP HIS HEART TO HIM.

THIS IS LESS THAN 10 MINUTES INTO THE EPISODE, NOT 15 SECONDS AFTER HE WALKS INTO THE ROOM.

yeshellothisisblog

If we’re still running with this metaphor, technically john have sherlock his heart in the very beginning. Literally, his first lines to sherlock were “here, use (take) mine (my heart)”

I’ve put these two together because you both hit the nail on the head! OMG, this post keeps getting better. I don’t want to hijack this post, so I’m gonna leave it at this 🙂 I’ll start a new post if there’s anything else added 🙂

This post broke my metaphorical phone.

love-in-mind-palace:

becumsh:

love-in-mind-palace:

Johnlock meme ☕  

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Today marks eight years since A Study in Pink aired. It’s been a wild ride, a bitter and heartbroken and tearful one.

But I can’t… I can’t not feel everything I felt when I first watched this episode. 

This show changed me so much. This show made me, partially, a person I am.

This episode will always be the best in my heart (even though The Reichenbach Fall is objectively better).

This episode will always be special, because it’s the beginning for many people, but most importantly, for two men of note. And whatever happened next, here, for them, it’s hope, it’s a start, it’s a promise of a hapy future. I will never forget it.

You said it so beautifully. I think it’s the same for most of us.

Happy Sherlock Day.

I just re-watched ‘A study in Pink’ :D

hawksmoor17:

the-hopeless-existentialist:

It amazes me that, even after watching it soooo many times, I still manage to see new things! Like how have I never noticed that there are still a few frames of Sherlock on the roof, left over from the unaired pilot??

Like how?? Also, when Mrs Hudson was asking if they needed two bedrooms, it was totally because she was secretly hoping that Sherlock had finally met someone. It’s so obvious… how people can’t see it… *sigh!

Hahahah when I was watching the other day I pointed out the same thing. I find it hilarious that Moffat likely begged them to at least put a few frames of it in.

watsonshoneybee:

easily my favorite part of asip is and has always been sherlock apparently hiding somewhere in NSY during this press conference so he can send his reporter group chat mysterious texts at the appropriate times. just imagine him crouched behind a potted plant or standing behind some vertical blinds with his gigantic feet poking out or something. that’s my son.