Oh yes, I am well aware of these previous comments. Just wanted to clarify that Steven yesterday, when asked re the new series, went straight to series 5 in his answer. Pretty sure he did, which means he’s certain that it is on the cards. Thanks for the links though, lost mine ages ago. We need to keep all these together for when the panic erupts over the show ending.
@femlocks said: love mark bringing up ‘a lost sherlock holmes story’
I KNOW, I HONESTLY GASPED. WHAT A CO-IN-KI-DINK. every time they mentioned bloody TRAINS i was like STOP THIS TORTURE lmao
I can’t bring myself to watch this–I hate vids like this in general–but did anyone ask? Or was it like Steven at the Q&A after TFP where it was volunteered while asking an unrelated question?
“We always go back to Doyle, that’s the thing, we just go back to the stories and sometimes- what I’ve been doing recently is reading a lot of his other stuff because it’s so, he’s so great, but also because you can hear his voice, they read, it’s a bit like finding a lost Sherlock Holmes story sometimes, some of the- and one of his horror stories ‘The Leather Funnel’, it’s a really horrible story, um but very very clever, and it’s lovely to just sort of discover different aspects of it. But we always go, you know, if we ever get stuck, we go back to Doyle and you find something, not necessarily a sort of solution to your problem of the day but just some illuminating little line or idea.” [around 8 min mark]
Sherlock Season 4 Improv Session Writers Chat (apologies for phone video)
Fucky of note:
“I am not given to outbursts of brotherly compassion” was never in the scripts, and was so LABORED over for that PRECISE wording……… but writing down the much more obvious “you know what we did to our sister” was ok???
“The only way to keep a secret is to make everybody distrust everything.”
I’m just laughing so hard at Moffat rn, he shouts at fans for not minding the books and meanwhile he goes and makes John a FATHER and Mary a deadly assassin with a sweet redemption arc but no, we’re the disrespectful ones.
oh and not to mention his secret psychopath sister the dog he never had and the moriarty-returns-from-death-scene every series
By ghosts of the past we mean consequences. There are consequences to the kind of mad cap in-the-moment fun lives that Sherlock and John and Mary lead. There are things that have happened, there are enemies that they have made, there is damage that has been done and some of that is coming back to visit them. There will be surprises and when some of those surprises happen you’ll think “ah I should have seen that coming”.
That’s totally what I thought the second we arrived at Sherrinford and the red lights started flashing and the three Garridebs were dangling outside the window and the crazy queer mad genius sister started writhing against the glass and the tranq darts flew unerringly out of the wall and John ended up in a well with the bones of a dog who turned out not to be a dog at all and then Sherlock hugged his sister and the chains dissolved and all that time, I could not stop thinking those exact words: “Ah, I should have seen that coming.”
Martin’s tears were not there for why you thought they were, Stevie.
The cast were the first to mourn the show.
We can actually trace back where series 4 begins because it was raining when we were shooting His Last Vow… so we went and sheltered upstairs with the accountants on the production bus and we just started talking about the story of the sibling.
Steven Moffat, Writers’ Chat S4 feature [x] (via roadswewalk)
This was Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s Writers’ Bible, a primer for incoming writers of the show, meaning, they showed it to Steve Thompson.
I was so taken with their philosophy of John Watson.
“Keep them (SH and JW) as much as you can – John is our man in the show, we can’t do it without him.”
Whatever happened to JW during season 4 is beyond me.
What prompted them to change his character, granted that The Final Problem was real, to put him in the sidelines, was painful.
In a nutshell^^^^^ Also; what happened to them having fun? Moffat use to say this a lot, they just have a load of fun. I miss them laughing. And yes, you can laugh in adversity, we all do.
*climbing through moffat’s kitchen window* i just find it funny, and by funny i mean unbearably annoying, how sherlock just completely ignored john’s vatican cameos *dusting myself off and going to the fridge* i mean, the entire point of this season and tbh the rest of the show was that john and sherlock need to cooperate to work efficiently *gets a carton of milk and chugs it* and sherlock just went against alla dat even though we know he’d learned from his mistakes after the reichenbach fall. also *pours all the remaining milk over my head* sherlock was gonna shoot himself and john just stood there like a fucken idiot???? whats up with that???
if it helps you understand this scenario more: i’m lactose intolerant
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