Imagine what it feels like for Ben and Martin to see the ratings for S4 to hit all time low and what a big blow it must be to them. Watching the show they have worked in for almost a decade. It’s like a slap in the face to see the hours you clocked in, with your blood sweat and tears, AND the emotional rollercoaster needed to get in character was for naught.
I imagine them doubting themselves, wondering if this brilliant show’s downfall was because they did not try harder, they did not work harder, they did not put in enough effort to get in character, they weren’t consistent, they weren’t… they weren’t… they weren’t….. they weren’t enough.
If their thoughts do lead them down this path, i hope they know that they are wrong.
I hope that someone, anyone, or rather everyone will let them know that they were enough, they were more than enough, in fact, they were brilliant and marvelous and wonderful and and and… incandescent! It’s because of them I fell in love with this show 5 years ago; the way Martin displayed a soldier’s bravado, clinging to every last ounce of will to live, finding hope in Sherlock where everyone and everything else in life has failed him, or rather he thinks he have failed in life, the way Benedict portrayed a character so uniquely, holding his own in a sea of Sherlock Holmes in the past century, giving life to a detective whose seemingly nonexistent heart is apparently almost as big as his mind palace. Most of all I love how their undeniable chemistry and spark made me believe in love, or finding hope in places you’d never think of. Such cliched sentiments but they are true nonetheless.
It’s a shame that this love story, veiled vehind heteronormativity since its conception due to societal expectations, set in this modern-age where it is plauded to be forward-thinking and ingenious, has to once again be lowered down to nothing more than subtext because ….. what? Was the timing not right? Implications? Poor reception?
Whatever it is, I only hope that the actors realise that they were perfect in embodying their characters, and that our disappointment is nothing more but a reflection of the screenwriters’ failure this time round.
The actors deserved every accolades they have garnered.
Someone please get this to Ben and Martin.
Yes, absolutely. Ben and Martin breathed life into these characters. They brought them to life, body and soul, and made us love them. Even when the writing barely let them, they were incredible. They did absolutely everything they could and created something beautiful, and I’m so proud of them.
PLEASE SPREAD THIS. PLEASE.
God I hope they see this somehow, or someone tells them. All of them. Ben, Martin, Amanda, Andrew, Lara, Louise and Rupert. They all acted wonderfully with what they were given.
get u a tv show that will kidnap you hold you prisoner for years and just when you reach the pinnacle of Stockholm syndrome it pulls the trigger and frames you for ur own murder
And everyone, I was on Twitter monitoring what was said to him. Fans were voicing their disappointment, of course, but I saw no threats or anything extremely rude, distasteful, etc. He probably felt awful because no one liked the episode. And he deleted.
This is not a case of evil!fandom.
People could have sent him DM’s but there’s no way to know.
1) Whatever about series 5, this episode was designed to be the last episode of Sherlock that Moffat and Gatiss would make.
2) It should be.
Not necessarily because it was awful. I’m going to talk about some of the infuriating things about it in a minute, but it was more interesting than, say, “Scandal in Belgravia” is for much of its running time (why am I outdoors watching Sherlock and Irene Adler talk about boomerangs again?), and more coherent (in its way) than “The Sign of Three,” and more compelling than the first 80 minutes of “The Great Game,” an episode with which it obviously has much in common. And I do appreciate all the canon references–”The Musgrave Ritual,” “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” etc.–and we do get to spend a lot of time with John, Mycroft, and Sherlock, and most of that time is interesting.
No, I say this should be the final episode of Sherlock because this show has run its course. Moffat and Gatiss have emptied out their joint idea bank account. For all the new excitingness that was supposed to come with the SECRET SISTER! twist, this episode is more obviously derivative, not just of other episodes of Sherlock but of Doctor Who, Silence of the Lambs, Star Trek, and no doubt many other genre shows with which I am not familiar, not to mention (as I believe Violethuntress may have already pointed out) Jane Eyre. I imagine that Moffat and Gatiss believed that they were achieving new heights of feminism by making the Holmes sister the smartest of the bunch. In fact, all they’re doing is catching up to where feminist criticism was in 1979, when Susan Gubar and Sandra Gilbert published The Madwoman in the Attic.
Im glad theyve stayed so close to the source material. My fave book was when the squad got locked up in shitty high tech azakaban by a cross between fucking ebony darkness dementia ravenway and jigsaw
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