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Sherlock and John are now ‘sort of comfortable in their skins’, says Mark.

“There’s still a lot to do. (…) There’s lots we can do potentially. We left the last series literally in Rathbone place –that’s the last shot. Um, sort of saying, we could pick this up or we could leave it. What I think we’ve realized, completely retrospectively –and it wasn’t our intention, is what we’ve done over the four seasons, is do their backstory. And that wasn’t the plan. But funnily enough, the whole idea of Sherlock and Mycroft having a more conversative relationship is from the Billy Wilder film, Private Life of Sherlock Holmes –which is our favourite version. Um… and all those other bits and pieces, with Sherlock being much more troubled… we realized that actually, we’ve got them to a place now where –if we did another one, they’d be sort of like the Rathbone and Bruce versions, as it were. They’re sort of comfortable in their skins, they’re a little bit older. They’ve now become the two men on the side of the fireplace, that we usually see them being. And we’ve kind of accidentally done how they got there.”

– Mark Gatiss on Sherlock (for ‘A Stab in the Dark’)

Excuse me??

No Mark, that is *not* what you did.

And this statement about being “sort of comfortable” makes me very much question what “comfortable” means to you, seeing as Sherlock and John are, at the end, absolutely devastated and nowhere near comfortable in any conceivable way! You completely ruined them and made them unhappy and broken for the rest of their lives, beyond repair.

That’s what you did.

All because Benedict (rightfully) asked for a backstory so that he could play the character better. And then, once you started really thinking about that, after initially just giving him a bogus answer, you couldn’t stop yourself from writing the entire series into that direction, because “wow! backstory! brilliant!”.
That was *not* what Ben asked or what anybody wanted. At least not in the way you did, murdering the characters we all loved.

And it is rather disturbing that you still don’t see the mess that you’ve made and the lack of intelligence you have shown.

Even fans write better.

I want to see Martin play John like Nigel Bruce played Watson. 😀

You mean, like he actually LIKES Sherlock??

Imagine the scene: It’s pouring rain against a thick window.
   
   

Outside, on Baker Street, the light from the gas lamps is so weak that it barely reaches the pavement.
   
   

A fog swirls in the air, and the gas gives it a pale yellow glow.
   
   

Mystery brews in every darkened corner, in every darkened room.
   
   

And a man steps out into that dim, foggy world, and he can tell you the story of your life by the cut of your shirtsleeves.
   
   

He can shine a light into the dimness, with only his intellect and his tobacco smoke to help him.
   
   

Now. Tell me that’s not awfully romantic?

Graham Moore,The Sherlockian (x)

And I discovered all sorts of things that I could do if I had had the opportunity to do it. So I said ‘yes!’, with enormous temerity, and a certain amount of fear, and an element of excitement. We approached the scripts. I said, ‘But you’ve asked me to do Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. These aren’t Sherlock Holmes – Doyle’s stories.’ I mean, the adapters had gone so far away. And the script editor said, ‘Jeremy, you’re here to act. Just get on with it’. And I tipped the table over and my Dover sole landed in his lap. And that was the beginning of the tousle. I used to take the whole canon with me to…the beginning of each film, and fight for Doyle. After about a year and a half I said, ‘Listen, if you don’t start taking care of me I may lose interest’, because it was such a tousle. But than Granada Studios stepped in and were so remarkable and wonderful and gave me two weeks rehearsal instead of the one. So the first week I could fight for Doyle and the second week I could work with my fellow actors. And that’s basically how it’s been ever since.

Jeremy Brett

(November 1991 interview, on deciding that he wanted to play Holmes, after rereading the entire canon).

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They say “freak,” or “you just haven’t met the right person,” or “you were probably raped as a child and repressed the memory,” or “you don’t have to lie to me just because you’re not attracted to me.” or “wow, you must be really kinky to not want to talk about it that much.” Then they stare at me like I’m in a display case. They’re the ones who can’t listen, but I’m the one who feels like a wristwatch in a shop window. Made of plastic and batteries and there to be pointed at and then walked away from as the time ticks on. They say “that must be unbearably lonely.” And then they leave.

All the Best and Brightest Creatures, wordstrings (via anotherwellkeptsecret)

The thing we desperately wanted to avoid was that Mary was a drag on Watson. We felt that the woman who marries Watson and becomes part of the Baker Street arrangement couldn’t be ordinary.

Mark Gatiss talking about Mary in S4 – (x)

Uhhh… she was literally nothing but a drag. Who shot the title character, burdened John with her entire criminal past & present, attacked anyone who tried to help her, and saddled her own infant – in a classic trap the dude with a pregnancy it seems they did not plan or discuss beforehand – with the name so dangerous she left it behind, herself. Who was such a manipulative, gaslighting, unremorseful, unapologetic piece of work that John was actively looking for a bus to throw himself under rather than go on being married to her. Bravo. Not a drag at all! 👏👏👏

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