An early use of the term comes from a 2014 post on the blogging site Trumblr, which discusses a pink-and-blue-washed scene in the BBC’s Sherlock and speculates about the hidden desires of Dr John Watson.”
…when I just casually read what’s on the front page of BBC news…
Never mind Holmes and Watson, it’s the ladies of Sherlock who shine in a poll of the most popular female characters in the history of British TV.
The survey was conducted by BBC Worldwide of fans throughout the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia and North America to find out which ladies resonate most with lovers of British television.
And, to little surprise, Amanda Abbington’s super spy Mary Morstan has come first in the poll, turning up in the top three of rankings in all of the territories that were polled by BBC Worldwide. Of course, she also received the most votes overall as well.
Whereas fans in Europe selected Mary for her “British sense of humour and Britishiness”, Chinese and Indian fans tended to admire her confidence and those in the US found her intelligence most appealing.
“Wow! This is brilliant,” Amanda Abbington said today (February 13). “Thank you for rating Mary Morstan your number one!
“That makes me very happy. I love Mary and I loved bringing her to life. She was a complicated, fun, dangerous, beautifully scrappy character to play and though she is no more, Long Live Mary Morstan!”
Even more impressive for Sherlock is that Una Stubbs’ Baker Street landlady Mrs Hudson finished second overall, ahead of Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennett, Miss Marple and even Missy from Doctor Who.
Below is the full ranking of the most popular female characters in the history of British TV:
1. Mary Morstan – Sherlock
2. Mrs Hudson – Sherlock
3. Elizabeth Bennett – Pride and Prejudice
4. Miss Marple – Miss Marple
5. Missy – Doctor Who
6. Sybil Fawlty – Fawlty Towers
7. Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham – Downton Abbey
8. Hyacinth Bouquet – Keeping of Appearances
Sherlock had similar success in last year’s BBC Worldwide poll, when Benedict Cumberbatch’s Great Detective topped The Doctor and Luther to be named the world’s favourite British TV character.
The good news is that there’s a solid chance we’ll be seeing more of most of the Sherlockgang, since co-creator Steven Moffat recently promised that the series will return after a lengthy hiatus.
Thought: It has been 7 months since S4 finished airing.
Now BBC ONE tweets a gif of John asking about the “color of mirrors” and tagging it “#thursdaythoughts.”
Remember how in S4, E2 we saw that billboard (being carried past) announcing a new series set to air “March 8″, and we waited for March 8, and it came and went?
March 8, 2018, is 7 months from now…on a Thursday.
EDIT: AND GET THIS SHIT…IT’S BEEN 221 DAYS SINCE EP4 AIRED.
So I’m beginning my funemployment period by watching everything in the BBC’s gay britannia program and I swear to god I am going to lose my fucking mind because they have MULTIPLE programs discussing – AT LENGTH – how for centuries queer coding and queer subtext has been used to communicate with queer audiences across art, literature, movies, and TV, in a way that is designed for straight people not to pick up on it; even going so far as to talk about the I Want To Break Free video at length
The actual BBC is doing this
After telling us that we’re crazy for seeing queer subtext in Sherlock
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