@TheConsultingDoctor

Ah yes, I saw that too – and what’s more 8th March is the day that Arthur Conan Doyle sat down to write the first Holmes/ Watson novel – A Study in Scarlet. I’m quite hopeful there will be an announcement of some sort on that date.

Furthermore I’ve just seen this tweet by Neville Kid – one of the cinematographers on…[Read more]

@TheConsultingDoctor – ahhh I’d missed that little detail – lovely.

The layers and layers of work which have gone into this narrative.

@TheConsultingDoctor – yes – I think your point about Ben Caron directing and the Derren Brown connection is a very good one.

Gatiss and Derren Brown are friends. And he’s already appeared in The Empty Hearse as part of Anderson’s theory of how Sherlock faked his death.

Happy anniversary to John and Sherlock indeed. Did you know some fans went…[Read more]

@TheConsultingDoctor   No – I don’t think I have – what did the billboard say?

@TheConsultingDoctor – Ah – but that’s one of the great conundrums of this BBC Sherlock adaptation – it’s NOT 1895 any longer (1895 was the year of the Wilde trials).

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Well, your reading is quite lovely and is certainly in the spirit of narratives within narratives, which I definitely think is the theme of the season. I really…[Read more]

Excellent @Blenkinsopthebrave – a convert!

Incidentally, if anyone is interested, it has been kicking off on Twitter, as young LGBT fans explain why they didn’t appreciate the way S4 was marketed to imply a John/ Sherlock relationship, but the BBC has responded to complaints by denying there has ever been any sexual or romantic interest displayed…[Read more]

@TheConsultingDoctor – heh “The Tower” – Sherlock still has a dragon to slay then, in order to rescue his “damsel in distress” John Watson…

The @contactSH twitter account, which I swear is show-run undercover (it links to the official para-text Sherlock blog “The Science of Deduction”) has Sherlock tweeting “”It ain;t over ’til the fat lady…[Read more]

@theconsultingdoctor

Yes, once you read The Final Problem as happening in John’s head it makes so much more sense.  I think the entirety of S4 may be in John’s head, at least in part (the biggest clue being that his blog does not update in the official para-text all season, as I mentioned above). There’s a “dual time-lines” theory out there…[Read more]

@TheConsultingDoctor – oh – our posts crossed.

Yes, I think the John-has-been=shot theory is definitely go!

Hello @TheConsultingDoctor I am still thinking about this season too.

Is John living with Sherlock again?

The narrative leaves that deliberately ambiguous (one of the many reasons that, as it stands, The Final Problem is insufficient). We see John pick up a big bunch of unopened post back at his flat, which includes Mary’s “Miss You” DVDs (I…[Read more]

Bless you @blenkinsopthebrave for hopping on the crazy train with me.

I had a look at the Basil Rathbone movies (because of the Rathbone nod which @pedant mentioned above) and you know what?

The Spider Woman combines the Arthur Conan Doyle stories “The Adventure of the Dying Detective” (we’ve had “The Lying Detective” in this version) with “The…[Read more]

@winston – you’re welcome!

I’ve been thinking about this quite a lot, as I just can’t reconcile the S4 narrative with the rest of the show without factoring in a dream-state interiority perspective (like the one we were given in The Abominable Bride).

Somene was, rightly, complaining about the number of Chekhov’s guns which were planted in S4…[Read more]

Hello everyone, belated Happy New Year!

I’ve been watching Sherlock S4 unfold aghast and could only square it in my mind by assuming we must still be in Sherlock’s drugged psyche for the entirety, because otherwise the season just doesn’t make any sense – narratively, cinematographically, logistically, emotionally.

Because of the little girl on…[Read more]

@Missy and @Miapatrick <waves> Yes Capaldi did grief very well. Wouldn’t he be a lovely face to sculpt!

The only thing I was disappointed about was that, with a baby in the mix,  I was expecting some “the Doctor speaks baby” jokes and we didn’t get them! What a missed opportunity! Maybe Moffat felt he’d overdone that one already, what with Baby…[Read more]

Festive salutations everyone!

That was an excellent script – not too schmaltzy (like many a Christmas episode has been before). Well done Moff!

Capaldi has well and truly found his feet in the role now. His facial expressions alone are an absolute joy to behold.

The gentle riff on Superman was tremendously sweet, complete with modern day Lois…[Read more]

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