At the cocktail party our group talked to Steven Moffat and apparently
he is writing a play at the moment! He has no idea if it will ever see
the light of day, but he’d never written a play before so decided to
before him n Mark start properly writing Dracula to hone his writing a
bit and just to give it a go. Sue said she’d read the first half and
said it was good and really enjoyed it, but Steven of course played that
down by saying ‘she’s my wife! Of course she has to say it’s good! !’
The crazy thing is that this would make so much sense in the context of what they did in S4.
I’m trying to imagine how badly Moffat would want to out-subtext Jeremy Paul’s The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, and… it’s a lot.
@devoursjohnlock yeah we were talking about that with @waitedforgarridebs! Imagine Ben channeling Jeremy. And this is a perfect thing for them to do in this moment of the narrative. The possibilities for that plot! And the sheer chance to witness the johnlock dynamic live onstage would be A LOT.
@marcespot Seriously, so many possibilities! If they decided to do this, I bet it would be in the style of Paul’s one-off: deep, deep subtext, a parallel recap of events. It might answer all of our timeline questions. And, as always, 99% of the audience would remain completely unaware of what they just watched.
@marcespot@devoursjohnlock it would be such a logical reason for why the end Montage of TFP was the actual set crew creating a stage from scratch in front of all of us.
Hell, yeah. It’s really the only way, unless you have someone with you at all times who can run them with you. … I probably have cried on the toilet. I try not to, though, because I have people in my house who would be disturbed by their dad having such a strange, isolated mood swing.
“Do you walk around the house muttering your lines?”
New Benedict Cumberbatch interview with Thom Yorke – (x)
No, but I am shortsighted. I need them for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
“Do you have reading glasses?”
New Benedict Cumberbatch interview with Thom Yorke – (x)
Oh my god does he just do shoots without his glasses then!?!
Moffat told the audience at the the BFI and Radio Times Television Festival in central London: “Neither Benedict, Mark or Martin are against doing more Sherlocks. “We have a great time making them, it’s a very, very nice bunch of people and we enjoy our reunions very much.” He said everyone involved in the show is “aware, very aware” how special it is to be a part of. “And that means two things, we’d never want to do it if we didn’t think we could do it as well as we used to,” he said. “It also means, we’ll come back to it when we feel we’ve got the right idea.” He added: “It could be off the earth quite a long while now. “But I would be surprised, as I’ve said before, if we never made any more Sherlocks.” Asked if he would consider recasting Cumberbatch and Freeman, who star as duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, he replied: “Absolutely not.” “You can admire great cinematography, a great score, great writing, great direction, great production,” he said. “You can admire all those things, but you only fall in love with people. “And the people you fall in love with are Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. “You cannot replace them. They are the magic, they are the show.” Moffat, who is stepping down from his role as writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, said he had “lived through my highlight”. “I mean I am never ever going to top being the guy who was in charge of Doctor Who and Sherlock at the same time,” he said. “That’s not possible. I’m not sure I would even want to top that. That’s an amazing thing.”
Boy, he just dangles that carrot, don’t he? Bet he feels a wane in popularity, but they obviously don’t know how to write themselves out of the corner they blocked themselves into.
They could have replaced Martin with a cardboard cut out this season for all his character mattered. I’m sure he’s just *itching* to come back. #fuckumoffat
steven my mansplaining buddy my patronizing pal if you could take just one (1) of the countless opportunities you’ve had to shut the fuck up i guarantee sir arthur conan doyle himself will rise from his grave and thank you for it
“He added: “The last Sherlock episode was a massive hit on any viewing metric scale. You can’t take a few commentators to be the voice of the audience.”
You tell yourself that.
When nobody praises your female characters or your show, do it yourself.
Kind of clever to do it by drawing attention to the negativity around the show and say that the criticism was about Mary dying. That makes it look like feminism is about not letting female characters die, which makes feminists look like a bunch of overreacting weirdos. And of course it sounds like that’s the only issue anyone had with the show. Are there even people who complain about Mary dying? I thought her fans were of the opinion that she was awesome. Even awesome characters die sometimes. What does that have to do with feminism?
Also, it’s cute how he keeps comparing his writing to someone’s from a century ago and seems to think that’s the thing he needs to improve on in order to make his female characters look good today. And for some reason he even thinks he succeeded at it.
Then he says Mary had to die because she died in canon. 😀
I thought they’d be thoroughly bored with more discussion about Sherlock. Apparently not.
I gotta say, the first reaction I had when reading the headline was, “BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY????? AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!”
Then I went, “Oh my Goddess, he IS serious!”
And deluded.
In the words of (some of) my ancestors– “Lawd JEEZUS!”
[…] it is her [Mary Morstan’s] legacy that they then live, it’s her saying, this is who you have to be, you have to go and consciously be Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes will now wear the silly hat because Mary liked it. It just felt right.
AND NOT A WORD ABOUT THE BACKLASH HE RECEIVED FROM THE LGTB AUDIENCE, NOT A WORD. Not about the reactions on social media, or the complaints received by the BBC. They only mention Molly´s scene as a controversial moment. As @astudyinqueerbaiting just told me, this looks like it was edited by Mark and the BBC itself…
One more time we are snubbed as something not even worth mentioning...
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