1) they were considering titling the episode backlash? What? This implies that they knew the public would hate it. Their argument that they knew the public wouldn’t like anything they did because Sherlock is popular and that’s what happens to all popular things makes absolutely NO sense. Im sorry, but if this anecdote is true, it adds evidence to the show getting reichenbached.
2) Mark states that series 3 of League of Gentlemen was initially panned but is now seen as a masterpiece. As a LoG nerd, let me say: I wasn’t around when s3 initially aired but I literally can’t imagine it getting bad reviews? I loved it the first time I watched it and loved it more with each rewatch? Certainly there was no drop off in production quality or writing. And I did just a bit of digging and I don’t see any evidence whatsoever that the series got the reviews that Sherlock is getting. Which leads me to:
3) Just gonna put this out there for the tin foil hat squad. The plot of s3 of LoG was that each episode appeared to be a stand alone, but when you get to the last episode you see that every episode’s plot is actually intertwined via a car crash at the very end. So. That’s a thing.
Sian Brooke, aka Eurus Holmes, answers some of the questions that you tweeted us with @Sherlock221b!
I think it’s great that people hate Mary. It’s brilliant. It means I’m doing my job properly, because who wants a vanilla character? You don’t want to watch somebody who’s just pedestrian and boring. You want somebody to shake things up a bit. And if she’s making people hate her, that’s great. And if she’s making people love her, it’s equally brilliant. And I think, I wouldn’t be doing my job properly if people just went, ‘Meh, okay. Well she’s there.’
There are no cliffhanging items left over, not that I can think of?
No. There isn’t something we have to come back to address. Which is quite good for us. Because if we do come back, we can just start with a knock on the door and a new client, and they can go and investigate. (x)
“I am not that bothered about what social media has to say about the plot or whether they approve of a particular twist or not. We can’t over analyse, because if we start doing that, we’d never be able to finish the episode. To be honest, I am not making a show to get reactions on the Internet.” –Gatiss.
SURE JAN.
Isn’t…analysis…of your writing….part of being a good writer?
And where is he hoping to get reactions? Letters to the editor of The Strand magazine? A handwritten note from the Queen?
This reeks of ‘Yeah, well, I didn’t want your stupid approval anyway! So ner ner!’
Grow up, Mark, and take some fucking criticism for a change. So-called ‘internet reactions’ are just reactions. They’re the same as the ones people are voicing on their lunch break, and in a cafe, and on the tube. The only difference is the latter are easier for him to ignore.
As Valeria said, acknowledging criticism and identifying your mistakes are how you learn and improve. If he can’t see that, then why should we care about potential future episodes? You’re writing the show for yourselves? Well, grand, but guess what? No one wants to watch that anymore, which means the BBC won’t want to make it anymore.
How out of touch do you have to be….I knew that he didn’t care a bit about fans, but this just proves he has no idea how the world works and how important “internet reactions” are.
I guess, in real life [I would rather be] married to an ex assassin [instead of best friends for ever with a high functioning sociopath] because I suppose at least that would imply some form of.. romance
Martin Freeman, ‘Sherlock, Season 4: Martin Freeman Would You Rather’ (x)
I… don’t want to put a Tin foil hat on but in the same time… what the fuck
In that same article we get the gem above.
So they do, in fact, shoot actual fake scenes to confuse their fans. Hmm.. wonder how many other such scenes there might be out there.
Also, what the hell happened between writing S3 and S4 if, in TEH, they used external experts (I’m presuming a physicist of some sort, in this case), to ensure that the story makes logical sense that can be replicated in the real world, and then left TFP full of emmentaler-sized plot holes and things that make no sense whatsoever. Seriously, something dire must have occurred for such a drastic change to take place.
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