#bbc jekyll

[hydejoe]

an informative graphic featuring 6 (7? 12? 11? what counts?????) of henry jekylls descendants across media. are there more? can we discuss his genes? who did he sleep with? who's babies are these?

[itslunatori]

Jekyll's descendants, gather together!

Any mistakes, I apologise.

(I couldn't add any more because these were the only ones I knew.)

[the-royal-orora]

The chaotic scientific urge to shove every version of Jekyll and Hyde into one room to see how they would react and interact with eachother

[queerholmcs]

bbc jekyll (2007) is a show. pick a moftiss bingo board detail that had me pacing the room like a caged animal.

looking-into-the-camera statements about stories and truth 💌

trains! (as a little treat) 🚆

live-in PA as a romantic interest for protag 💘

turning the source work into a romance 🫶

steven please no-one needed to know this much about your sexual preferences. 😐

secret organisation that's been waiting 100 years for this opportunity ⏳

mark gatiss jumpscare (he's the author, don't you know!) ✒️

protag kills for love, dies for love, AND comes back to life for love ✨

phone-related symbolism (or as close as you could get in 2007) 📱

protag's arc is entirely about learning to love & let go of repression 😌

gay detectives 🔎

Voting ended onJun 14, 2025

i'm literally making these for an audience of one and half people at this point. it's fine. anyway the show is painfully 2007 and @ steven maybe go to therapy or something but like. james nesbitt was fantastic in this and more people should watch it. sorry for the spoilers but also the show aired [checks watch] 18 years ago and is now old enough to buy me a drink. so.

[astudyinsubtext]

lovingly, steven moffat really really does only make one singular show huh

[happistar]

It's always the same tea

[forest-of-stories]

Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: "I didn't come here to debate the nature of identity with you."

Jekyll showcases some of Steven Moffat’s weaknesses as a writer as well as some of his strengths, but when I first saw the miniseries in 2011, I thought that it was an amazingly brilliant take on a classic story with which I was quickly becoming obsessed. 

I took a lot of notes as I watched the first episode...

...and the second...

...and all the way to the end.

I wrote almost 14,000 words of Jekyll fanfic over the next year, including several crossovers, and you can find most of it on AO3.  I also collaborated on a fusion with Moffat’s other retelling of a Victorian classic.

Although I first talked about the basic foundations of “Jekyllock” with another friend, @ellekess and I ultimately took the story and ran with it.  In that AU, Jim Moriarty had been Sherlock’s murderous alter ego, sharing and occasionally transforming his body, since childhood.  Mycroft knew about Jim but kept his existence a secret from Sherlock.  Eventually, in the series timeline, John and Sherlock pieced together the truth.

Throughout 2012 and for a little while after, Elle and I wrote scenes as they occurred to us, out of sequence, and emailed them back and forth.  Sometimes we texted each other in character as John and Mycroft, or Jim and pretty much anyone.  (We both really loved writing in his voice.)  I vividly recall scribbling one scene on public transit – I can’t find the draft now, but it involved Molly Hooper finding out what was going on – in a burst of creative energy that I still find remarkable to this day.  I also remain delighted by the interactions that Elle wrote between Jim and Mycroft, in particular.  (“I have no wish to hear about your urges, James.”)

I loved exploring this AU, and I loved working on it together with someone who was equally invested.  Even after we moved on to other fannish interests, and although I don’t know whether we’ll ever share everything that we wrote, Elle and I have always looked back on our Jekyllock project fondly, and we still do.

[bane-of-technology]

I think if BBC Jekyll came out this year, it would've been an instant cult classic