Tag: s1

notagarroter:

thetimemoves:

As much as I love the main gang, there are a lot of interesting minor characters in Sherlock that I think make their own impact. Minor Character Monday is going to highlight some of my favorite minor characters, whether they had 20 lines or none.

First up, Helen from A Study in Pink. Her role was short, but memorable. Just two scenes in which she went from gushing romantic to heartbroken lover, but it still sticks with me. So does a bit of hair envy… (x)

I love this character too. I love how quickly and effectively the show reveals that she’s the lover, not the wife. Even though we don’t know these characters and we’ll never see them again, the conflicted emotions of the moment are palpable.

gandlfs:

July 2010. It is three weeks before the first series of Sherlock broadcasts on BBC One, and show creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are panicking. The BBC has suddenly brought forward the slot for their show “by a substantial amount”. As summer is already a difficult time to launch a series, Gatiss and Moffat are bewildered as to how they will promote it.

“We were sitting around with our heads in our hands,” Steven Moffat remembers, “going, ‘There isn’t enough time to do this. It will broadcast to no one.’ ”

This was when they joined Twitter.

“It was really only one step up from individually knocking on people’s doors and shouting, ‘Sherlock is coming!’ through their letter boxes,” Mark Gatiss explains. “We were almost… desperate.”

“What did we think we’d get?” Moffat muses.

“Four million viewers,” Gatiss replies.

“Four million viewers, tops, and a couple of nice broadsheet write-ups. That was our best-case scenario.”

On the night the debut episode – A Study in Pink – went out, the core cast and crew assembled at Moffat’s house in Kew to watch it, in a state of nervous tension.

Gathering around the wine – “a lot of wine” – were Martin Freeman (Dr Watson), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes), Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, the show’s producer, who is, handily, also married to Moffat, “which has, over the years, saved us a fortune on cabs”.

In the event, when Sherlock began, the Moffat party had to immediately pause it, as Benedict Cumberbatch still hadn’t arrived.

“He called us – he was stuck in a traffic jam on Baker Street,” Moffat recalls. “Sherlock Holmes, stuck on Baker Street! We couldn’t work out if that was a good sign or not.”

“I think he might have made that up, to be honest,” Gatiss says. “But it’s a really good lie.”

When Cumberbatch finally arrived, the party who made Sherlock watched the show ten minutes behind the rest of Britain.

“But we knew when the climax happened,” Gatiss beams, “because suddenly all our phones were going off, everyone texting, everyone phoning. I mean, exploding.”

“An hour later, I went and sat in the garden,” Moffat says, “and looked at Twitter. I saw that Benedict was trending worldwide on Twitter, Martin was trending worldwide, Sherlock itself was trending worldwide. And people were talking about it with this… passion. As if they were lifelong fans – when, of course, they’d not seen it 90 minutes ago. Everything had changed in 90 minutes.”

He pauses for a minute, still looking surprised.

“Everything.” (X)

sherlokihollandbatch:

Unaired Pilot 221b vs Normal 221b

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The difference is so big! The unaired pilot one looks so uninviting and gloomy and just bleh. But the normal one has a personality to it; it screams “SHERLOCK” and “JOHN”, it’s so much more brighter and happier, I guess. They really did step it up after the pilot, and thank god for that…

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acumberlockedgirl:

the-seven-fandom-solution:

why-cant-people-just-think:

one-thousand-splendid-stars:

why-cant-people-just-think:

It’s been 8 years and I still want to know,

Was that lip lick absolutely necessary John?

I was gonna ask which one cause John does this all the time but let’s be real we all know which one is…. The One

@one-thousand-splendid-stars you’re right. It’s The One.

Haha let’s look at it again.

Because who are we kidding. We can watch that for weeks.

^^^

Sadly it’s not a lip lick – it’s a lip push… which in body language terms is a whole heap of difference! Usually when you push your tongue out of your lips like that it’s because you either do not like the conversation (you are pushing it away) or you do not want to be where you are (you are pushing the situation away), the same as a baby pushes it’s tongue out when you’re trying to feed it food it does not like or want.. It’s a sign of deep discomfort and a need to get away or change the subject. We cannot see John’s hands but quite often it’s combined with self grooming (rubbing of hands on thighs or sides, sometimes your neck.). It can also mean a distaste of what we are hearing or ‘rejecting an idea’. http://bodylanguageproject.com/nonverbal-dictionary/body-language-of-tongue-protrusion-or-tongue-rejection/

So, sorry peeps but if you’re looking at above gif & thinking John is being sexual towards Sherlock in any way read the above article (and many more you can find online) and think about it again.