Molly: Hello?
Sherlock: Hi Molly, I am a Sociopath™ who doesn’t understand human emotion and I need your help. What’s that thing people say to each other when they’re married or have romantic attachments?
Molly: What, you mean “I love you”?
Eurus: ah fuck
Like… they break a huge rule of screenplay writing which is don’t write expressions for your actors….
Coming from someone who had worn writer hat and actor hat – SOMETIMES you can write in a feeling or expression if you need something really specific. But generally from what I’ve seen of the script I get the impression that TPTB want ABSOLUTE control over the show and don’t trust their actors enough to deliver.
Martin “I can do that with a look” Freeman=him trying to regain some actorly control over his character.
Just throwing it out there I don’t think the derren brown stuff is cool or amazing I think if that’s what they did they’re sick and messed up given how much they villainize popular media doing that exact thing.
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