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"Sergei... half-and-half."

Watson, overwhelmed, with revelatory music: [drinks heavily]

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"There's a subtext to John's drinking."

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Joe Lidster talks about the process behind the blogs he writes for BBC Sherlock in a Feb 2012 (x) interview, post Sherlock S2 airing.

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This afternoon I had the pleasure of hearing Mark Gatiss - the well-known actor and writer - speak at the Oxford Union. As many readers w...

Thanks to @lavenderandvanilla for linking this. Some Sherlock-related excerpts:

On creating Sherlock with Steven Moffat, Mark spoke of the enormous fun the two of them have had putting it together, speaking of the huge workload but also the amount of fun they have, and how proud they are of the global reach that the show has and how it's pointed so many people back to the Conan Doyle originals. The huge expectations under which the show airs each time round are not something you can quite ignore, he concedes, but feels you don't put that at the forefront of your mind. He feels the most important thing is that you do the show you want and hopefully other people will like it.

On how the Doctor, Sherlock and Mycroft would vote in the general election, Mark was quick to say, "the Doctor wouldn't vote; he's not a registered alien. But he'd probably vote for the most human candidate. Mycroft would obviously vote Tory, and Sherlock would call into question the notion of elections."

On whether there was anything about Sherlock he regretted or would do differently, Mark says perhaps they shouldn't have killed Moriarty off quite so early, especially given that he left the show about five times! The show was originally 6 hour-long episodes, but this was changed to 3x90 fairly early on. At that point Mark had written Episode 2, which was originally going to be an hour-long tale of the lost Vermeer painting, but because everything then had to become punchier, quicker, pacier and with higher stakes, it was simply reworked in to the series finale - The Great Game - as one of the mini-cases Sherlock is set to solve by Moriarty. He claims the 90-minute format "eats up stories", which you have to keep feeding into the mix or the stories become staid and tired. He also spoke of the "12-minute scene" in his first Sherlock episode, a scene all about interaction between characters, which he wouldn't have done if it'd been a 60-minute programme but which the space of 90 minutes allowed him to do (though there was still some concern over whether they'd gone overboard, he reckons the bits of Sherlock people like most are the character discussions).

On whether foreshadowing is always deliberate or not, Mark says that sometimes it is and that it's lovely when people notice the efforts you go to (citing the fact that Henry Baskerville nearly shoots himself by placing a gun in his mouth in the Sherlock episode The Hounds of Baskerville as foreshadowing for the way Moriarty kills himself in the same way in The Reichenbach Fall as a deliberate bit of foreshadowing). But sometimes, he says, it's entirely random and coincidental: "TD12", the memory drug in the Sherlock episode The Lying Detective and a plot device taken from the Conan Doyle short story The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, was not - as some fans supposed - "The Devil's Foot [12 inches]" but that Steven had picked the number entirely at random.

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On social media and how fans and creatives interact, Mark reckons it's a bit of a mixed blessing. Things are consumed so quickly these days, he reckons, that there's a weird discrepancy between how long people work on things and how people just gobble up something in an evening and then say "next!". He says there is feedback on the Internet if you choose to look at it, of course, but that it's generally best to ignore it. [...]