Do you ever just look at Sherlock posts like, “this shit isn’t even edited, this is just the fucking show. And if that’s not pining and/or eye fucking, I don’t know what is”
Kinda like my friend set out to make an S3 video and it ended up being pretty Johnlock, without even trying to.
In The Sign of Three, both of John’s love interests give him a code word or phrase. His reaction to each of them is very different.
When John realizes that, ‘Beth’, is calling Mary, his reaction is literally the most pissed off he’s ever looked on the show. He is so annoyed, he literally looks at the camera like he’s on the Office and just holds that look. This is how bothered he is. As far as we can tell Mary is being adorable and inventive and he looks positively fed up with her. He then does a deep sigh and seems to have to will himself to get up from his chair. As he enters the kitchen he avoids eye contact and then forces a fake smile; he turns it on like a light, it’s totally synthetic. He’s trying really hard to be nice, there, despite finding this situation really annoying.
When Sherlock says his code phrase, John immediately becomes alert and gets ready to help. He is all in. Whatever Sherlock needs he is doing. He even stands to offer his services. This is so natural to John, to be there when Sherlock needs. This is John in his element.
Now, while in the story we can say that Sherlock’s code is of life or death importance whereas Mary’s is just a trivial, wedding playing related matter, the point is that we have this parallel about codes words. His response to a fairly easy issue with Mary is to be more annoyed than he’s ever looked and his response to Sherlock is that he’s ready to immediately do anything for him.
By the beginning of HLV we can see that John’s marriage is in trouble, for sure. But, even here, before the wedding, I think that we see him being way too annoyed with Mary. At this point in the story she’s done nothing but be cute and supportive, we have no reason to think that John would be this annoyed with her. John is sending us clues as to his unhappiness with Mary even before it becomes really obvious.
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So I was re-watching Scandal in Belgravia last night. I was amused that while Hubby figured Sherlock had the hots for Irene, I was sitting there thinking that John was getting more and more jealous.
random other thoughts
I love that Greg called the other cop in charge of the hiker case. And that he listened to him, because it shows that Greg is respected. “Listen to everything he says, and as far as possible, try not to punch him.”
Mycroft, John and Mrs. Hudson coordinating to try to take care of Sherlock, even if he won’t appreciate it.
Why was Sherlock so out of focus after Battersea? Was he just thinking about the conversation he’d overhead, or had he taken something? He sharpens right up once he realizes 221B was broken into.
John really does close the door by pulling on the knocker.
The entire Buckingham palace scene is gold.
Mycroft and John sharing a look when Mycroft says "Naturally not. They all spy on people for money.”
Mycroft doesn’t hesitate to apologize to Mrs. Hudson when he realizes he crossed a line.
we all know john and sherlock are gonna kiss, but consider this: kiss scene bloopers.
*SLAMS REBLOG*
Their noses bump. Ben bursts into hysterical giggles. Martin sighs and crosses his arms, waiting patiently (in character) for Ben to stop. Finally he says, “Are you nearly done, sweetheart?”
They have another go, but as soon as their lips touch, Ben has to sneeze. He pulls away quickly, apologizing all the way. Martin sits this time.
They get it going at last. Without thinking, Ben’s hands drift to Martin’s butt. Martin is caught off guard and breaks the kiss. “Oi–buy me dinner first! Bloody cheek!”
Martin tries something different in the next take–a little moan. This time, Gatiss (who is just off camera with headphones on) bursts out laughing. Martin throws his hands up in despair.
They try again, but they just can’t get coordinated. Hands are at cross purposes and heads are tilting in the same direction. As they both try to correct, the head bobbing becomes comical and Martin starts spontaneously break-dancing. Ben follows suit. Someone on the crew finds music and turns it up.
Sue calls lunch.
Finally, two hours later, it all just *clicks* They kiss so softly, so passionately and so beautifully that when they finally part to gaze at each other, there is utter silence in the room for several minutes afterward. You can hear a pin drop until finally Kevin (the new grip) just kind of wheezes and blurts out “Well, fuck me.”
Yes, it’s true. All the versions you can purchase or stream are the original BBC version.
There’s a misconception among a lot of casuals that Sherlock is aired in the US on BBC America. That’s not the case. PBS, the US station which airs Sherlock as part of its Masterpiece Mystery series, is partially publicly funded, and “family friendly.” It produces/broadcasts wholesome and/or brainy shows like Sesame Street, Antiques Roadshow (US), Ken Burns documentaries, classical and country music concerts, horrors like Celtic Women, and LOTS of nature programs. They also air LOTS of UK dramas like Downtown Abbey, Endeavor and the like. To their credit they did cut exponentially less of Series Three, but yes– there are substantial differences between Series One and Two as PBS/Masterpiece broadcast them versus the BBC originals.
Now. Not only did PBS/Masterpiece heavily cut Sherlock S1 and S2– they aired the episodes MONTHS after the BBC. And in the case of TEH– a few days later.
MasterpieceMystery and Sherlock Co-Producer Rebecca Eaton
The US cuts weren’t done primarily for commercials. PBS shows have very few sponsored ads (mainly from charitable foundations and Viking Riverboat Cruises!) Those spots appear at the close of episodes. The main reasons for the cuts were that:
Masterpiece Mystery traditionally has a shorter runtime than BBC dramas.
Masterpiece has charming, but long opening credits animated by Edward Gorey. (see below)
They have VERY annoying looooong insipid introductions for all theirepisodes by a host that old timey viewers love to love AND hate. (see below)
This ^ is ultimately the primary reason Masterpiece/PBS stopped hacking up Sherlock. They were losing massive money (despite what she claims above) in the US due to the fact that the Sherlock audience is decades younger than traditional Masterpiece viewers, and we know a thing or two about VPNs, BBC iPlayer, and Mediafire. (Jesus lady, get with the times already!)
Also Sue, Moffat, Benedict, etc. all put much public pressure on Eaton (especially when asked about the cuts and the delay by fans at cons and public appearances) to stop the madness and air the original simultaneously with the BBC.
Yes, but what about the @#$% cuts?!
The cuts were made willingly by Hartswood so they weren’t *total* hack jobs, but I can tell you that they made a huge difference story wise. I didn’t know there were cuts when I first watched Series Two in the US. (And this is why I watched TEH on the friggin iPlayer buffering 30 seconds at a time!) In TRF, for example, they cut, among other things, a key bit of Sherlock’s and Molly’s scene before the Fall. In fact TEH (and “you were the one person who mattered the most”) wouldn’t make much sense if you had only seen the PBS cut.
Here’s a link to a blog that compares all the PBS/Masterpiece cuts from Series One and Two to the BBC originals:
It would be quite the meta for somebody to talk about how the cuts changed the stories and headcanons– especially since they were “officially” (though reluctantly) done by the late Charlie Phillips (I’m not sure if Tim Porter, who edited TRF did the PBS/Masterpiece edits for that ep, or if Phillips did them all.) Here is Charlie talking about the edits
from “Reimagining a Classic with Editor Charlie Phillips” in Cinema Editor By Adrian Pennington
Now that’s kind of true– there were, however a few words/phrases of S3 that were altered. For the youth, you know…
And there you have it. This is why we all tuned into the BBC iPlayer for S3 early (to get access to the stream so we wouldn’t be blocked out from overwhelmed servers which we were anyway) and why we watched the BBC’s DEADLY BORING version of Antiques Roadshow which aired just before TEH in the UK.
The cuts and the delay are a HUGE HUGE part of Sherlock fandom history that you wouldn’t know about if you came in after Three.
