Hi! How are you today? It doesn’t has to do with fic recs but do you know if there is any Sherlockcon in London?
Hi Lovely!
I’m well, thank you, hope you’re doing good as well! <3
According to their website, they haven’t had a Sherlocked UK since 2017 (if I recall correctly, they decided because of low numbers in 2017 they wouldn’t do it in 2018… DON’T QUOTE ME, I don’t remember exactly why). I think they’re focussing all their energy on the Escape Room instead.
Methinks Sherlocked won’t be back until another season -- if it happens -- comes out. Given how disinterested / blasé all the cast / crew seemed about going to the one in 2018 in the US, I’ll be surprised if they do one in the UK this year. BUT it is closer to home in the UK, so I suppose it’s easier for everyone to get there. But if they do, just keep watching that website, it will update with info for the con.
As I mentioned, though, I think they’re only interested in the Escape Room at present, given that the word is that they’re trying to finagle a way to bring it to the US as well.
If any of my UK friends have heard anything related to Sherlocked UK, let me know. Or even if anyone in the L.A. area has heard about Sherlocked US / Escape Room. I figure if it was happening, we would have heard about it by now. :P
In the same talk as #14 about developing the different styles for the characters Claire talked about the development of Sherlock’s hair style from the pilot to ASiP!
Before they started filming they had to try out the styles and it was on one of her last working days before holidays, when she did Ben’s hair!
When she finally arrived home after a long day, she got a phone call from (I guess it was) Steven who said: “Claire, what have you done to Ben’s hair??”
She was totally surprised: “Why? What?”
Steven: “He hates it!! You have to fix it!”
She said she was utterly confused: “I don’t understand it! Everything was fine when I left him….!?”
So before she headed down back to London in a winter evening she called Ben to check what was wrong…..
And guess what….
His mom didn’t like it!!!! :’-))))
So what happened: After his hair session with Claire Ben went home to his parents’ BY BIKE!!
And not only that… by bike IN MISTY DRIZZLY WEATHER!!!
And not only that… by bike in misty drizzly weather with A BIKE HELMET ON!!!!
So he arrived home and took that helmet of off his freshly styled now soaked wet and flattened hair and his mom went :”Oh no!”
And first thing he did was ring Steven and tell him that his mom doesn’t like his hair…. :’-))))
Last year, I started a list of questions I had post-series 4. I started it just to keep track for myself, but when I found out that the Sherlocked US event in LA would take questions through their webpage, I submitted them. I had about 50 by then. I submitted all of them. One got asked, but not answered.
By Sherlocked UK in October, I had 100 questions. And I submitted all of them again. Some I submitted more than once, because they were relevant to more than one panel. Two got asked. I heard about one of the answers, but not the other.
Now I have 130 questions. But Sherlocked US isn’t going to accept questions through their website this year. So I’m posting this for anyone who might be going, or who might be attending any kind of Sherlock fan event. Feel free to use these, if you want.
I have to give credit to all of the amazing fans that I follow and interact with on social media and IRL, because many, if not most, of these questions came about as a result of their posts and conversations. I certainly can’t take credit for thinking all of them up myself.
I don’t expect I’ll ever get real answers to any of them. But if you do use them, I would love to hear about it! And if you do get answers, I’d love to hear about those, too. I’m going to keep collecting questions and I’ll post the working list occasionally.
Questions under the cut to save your dashes
1. How do Eurus’ mind control powers work? Why don’t they affect Sherlock, John, and Mycroft?
2. Why didn’t anyone look for Victor in the well when he went missing?
3. Did you have any input into the BBC response to complaints following series 4?
4. What is the significance of Sherlock being on social media so much in series 4?
5. How did Sherlock get Mycroft’s paintings to weep blood?
6. If Eurus wanted Sherlock to come to Sherrinford, why did she try to blow him up at the flat?
7. You’ve talked about The Three Garridebs as being one of the most poignant moments in the canon. Could you talk about your creative process in adapting it for The Final Problem?
8. Could you talk about the reasoning behind having the cameraman in the scene in The Six Thatchers in series 4?
9. Could you talk about the reasoning behind having lights on in one frame and off in the next in series 4?
10. Could you talk about the reasoning behind having John present in one frame but then gone in the next in a scene in The Six Thatchers?
11. Could you talk about the reasoning behind the skull changing luminosity and color in series 4?
12. Is The Final Problem still your favorite episode? If so, why did you nominate The Lying Detective for an Emmy rather than The Final Problem?
13. Why would John think that he wouldn’t save Sherlock unless Mary told him to? She didn’t tell him to shoot the cabbie in A Study in Pink.
14. How did the rug in the flat survive the grenade explosion?
15. If Eurus could leave Sherrinford whenever she wanted, why would she ever return?
16. Did Eurus mind control John or Sherlock? If not, why wasn’t she able to?
17. You’ve said that you feel that all the other adaptations of Sherlock Holmes have got it wrong and you created Sherlock to fix that. Other than not modernizing, what other things do you think they got wrong?
18. Why did John stop blogging?
19. Are you familiar with the dramatic principle of Chekov’s gun? How would you deal with that as a writer?
20. Why do you think that The Final Problem had the lowest viewing numbers of any Sherlock episode so far?
21. Why do you think that the Final Problem had the lowest critics’ ratings of any Sherlock episode so far?
22. Could you talk about the dramatic principle of Chekov’s gun and how it applies to John’s note in The Six Thatchers?
23. Could you talk about your creative decision-making in terms of having the security monitors at Sherrinford show medical scans?
24. Why did the tranquilizer gun that Eurus shot John with at the end of The Lying Detective make a sound like a gunshot?
25. How did Mary know that John would watch the DVD she sent Sherlock?
26. How did Mary manage to send John a DVD months after her death?
27. Could you talk a little bit about what Mary meant when she told John and Sherlock “Who you are, it doesn’t matter”?
28. If John is hallucinating Mary in The Lying Detective, how is it that she’s able to hold Mycroft’s umbrella during the scene when Mycroft and John are in Baker Street?
29. In The Six Thatchers, John is shown typing a blog entry on his computer, but in actuality the screen shows a jpeg file and the blog entry seems to skip time – he mentions that he’s going to be a father, and in the next paragraph is talking about having to buy nappies. Could you talk a little bit about the decision process in creating this?
30. You’ve mentioned before about how John is a good, honest man. Could you talk a little bit about the character journey that leads to him cheating on Mary and beating up Sherlock in series 4?
31. If Eurus could manipulate people since she was five years old, why couldn’t she just make Sherlock play with her?
32. What made you decide to do The Six Thatchers differently from the way the case is written up on John's blog?
33. Could you talk a little bit about the creative decision process in having the repeated scenes in The Six Thatchers be slightly different (John and Mary on different sides of the bed, etc.)?
34. How does Lestrade know about Sherlock shooting Magnussen in The Lying Detective if it's supposed to be classified?
35. Who does John usually leave Rosie with when he can't take care of her?
36. How did Mary know to go to London Aquarium to meet Sherlock in The Six Thatchers?
37. Where did Eurus keep Faith’s note? In her cell at Sherrinford? Were the window deductions false, then?
38. Could you talk about the creative decision-making to have John’s hairstyle change so dramatically from series 3 to series 4?
39. If Mycroft knew about Mary being an assassin, wouldn't he worry about Sherlock being involved with her and John? Wouldn't he try to prevent that?
40. Why does Mycroft let Sherlock go see Eurus alone?
41. In The Lying Detective, Mrs. Hudson says "It's the government" when she hands the phone over to the policeman. Mycroft is on the phone. So it's no longer a secret how powerful he is?
42. If Eurus could manipulate people since she was five years old, why did she wait until she was 35 to break out of Sherrinford?
43. How did Magnussen's magnifying glass end up in 221B?
44. How did the glass sculpture from the client’s place that John and Sherlock visited drunk on stag night end up in Sherlock’s hospital room in The Lying Detective?
45. At Sherlocked UK in October, you said that Eurus was responsible for the increased violence between John and Sherlock in season 4. How?
46. John seems to have forgotten that he’s a doctor in series 4 – he doesn’t attempt to help Mary, and both Sherlock and Smith question his credentials. Can you discuss how you came to this idea for the character?
47. Could you talk about how the movie Saw influenced your creative process on The Final Problem?
48. Could you talk about how the movie The Ring influenced your creative process on The Final Problem?
49. Could you talk about how the movie Shutter Island influenced your creative process on The Final Problem?
50. Could you talk about how the movie Spectre influenced your creative process on The Final Problem?
51. If the skull painting was too expensive, why not just get rid of it? Why does Sherlock like that painting so much?
52. Did Sherlock go to Oxford or Cambridge?
53. Content creators like Bryan Fuller, John Fawcett, and Graeme Manson have managed to avoid spoilers while being honest with their fans. Could you talk a little bit about why you think it’s necessary to lie to fans?
54. Could you talk a little bit about the reasoning behind Steve Thompson no longer writing for the show?
55. Could you talk a little bit about why you love to torment fans?
56. Could you talk about your decision-making process in having Mary replace John as Sherlock’s partner in The Six Thatchers?
57. Why do you participate in fan Q&A sessions when the questions just seem to annoy you?
58. You’ve said you don’t like it when people say Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and yet you’ve had two characters (Mycroft and Mary) say that on the show. Why?
59. What mistakes did you make on Sherlock and how will you address them on your next show?
60. What decisions on Sherlock do you regret?
61. You’ve said that you go back to Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories for each episode. In which of Doyle’s stories did Sherlock have an insane sister with mind control powers who was incarcerated on an island fortress?
62. What do you think that the people who make the next adaptation of Sherlock will do differently?
63. Could you talk a little bit about your decision to have Mary’s death violate the rules about being shot that you set up in His Last Vow (there’s no spurt of blood, no flying backwards)?
64. What does the note that John gave Molly to give to Sherlock at the end of The Six Thatchers say?
65. What is the recurring dream that Sherlock talks to Ella about at the end of The Lying Detective?
66. What does Sherlock mean when he tells Ella that he needs to know what to do about John Watson at the end of The Lying Detective?
67. Could you talk a little bit about the creative decision-making in having the walls in Ella’s office when Sherlock is seeing her not reach the ground?
68. Isn’t it a conflict of interest for Ella to be seeing Sherlock?
69. Why isn’t John going to see Ella if he wants to see a therapist?
70. Why does Ella have a different office in series 4?
71. Why don’t Sherlock’s parents ever mention Eurus when he was a child? Even if they thought she was dead, you would think they would talk about her occasionally.
72. Why aren’t there any family pictures with Eurus in them? They must have had some pictures taken before she was sent away.
73. Why doesn’t anyone else in the family talk about Eurus?
74. Why isn’t Eurus in the family movies?
75. Could you talk a little bit about your process around presenting Mary Morstan as a potential villain but then killing her off?
76. Could you talk a little bit about the decision to have someone as clever and malevolent as James Moriarty get brainwashed into making videos of himself making train noises?
77. In your writer’s bible, you wrote “John is our man in the show, we can’t do without him.” Can you talk a little bit about your decision-making process in replacing him with Mary and having him not be involved in much of the action in The Six Thatchers?
78. In your writer’s bible, you wrote about John and Sherlock “Keep them together as much as you can.” Could you talk a little bit about your decision to have John and Sherlock be separate for most of series 4?
79. In The Sherlock Chronicles, you said that you were most proud of making John Watson a character the audience could really care for, because he is the audience. Could you talk a little bit about your decision to have him do things the audience might find objectionable, like beat Sherlock up and have an affair?
80. Following series 1, you said that you weren’t going to make Sherlock’s drug abuse a major plot point in the show. What changed your mind?
81. Why did three people on Twitter complaining about the scene with Irene being naked cause much “soul-searching” but several hundred people complaining to the BBC about the plot holes and poor quality of series 4 got no response?
82. If Molly has “moved on” by the end of series 3, as you said in The Sherlock Chronicles, why does she struggle with telling Sherlock she loves him in The Final Problem?
83. In The Sherlock Chronicles, you said that there were “one or two… extra little ideas” about how Sherlock survived the fall that were “so clever we later added them into the mix….” What were those ideas and where did you get them?
84. In The Sherlock Chronicles, you talk about how Mary Morstan is a character that doesn’t come between John and Sherlock, but she did in series 4, since her death was the primary reason for the breach between them at the end of The Six Thatchers. Could you talk about your reasons for that and why that changed from series 3 to series 4?
85. At Sherlocked US you said that a lot of the issues that fans noticed with changing lights and the changing skull picture and the like were because of having a low budget. But in The Sherlock Chronicles, you talked about how “producers are great at moving money around, and money saved on one thing can be spent on another.” Could you talk a little bit about why you weren’t able to do this on series 4?
86. You’ve said that you go back to Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories for each episode. In which of Doyle’s stories did Sherlock repress a traumatic childhood memory and replace it with his memory of a pet?
87. Could you talk about the significance of Sherlock characterizing Henry Knight’s problem in The Hounds of Baskerville as “Childhood trauma masked by an invented memory. Boring!” given the revelations about Redbeard and Victor Trevor in The Final Problem?
88. Why do you think there are so many conspiracy theories around series 4?
89. How do you think the use of romantic tropes and romance in advertising (i.e., “Sherlock’s back and he’s in love – but who with?” by the BBC for series 4) on the show has affected conspiracy theories?
90. We know that Sherlock can drive from The Hounds of Baskerville. Why wouldn’t he be driving Mary to the hospital when she is in labor in The Six Thatchers so that John could be in the back seat helping her?
91. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the material you shot in Canada for series 4?
92. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the material you shot in Mint and Mustard for series 4?
93. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the material you shot in the Tower of London for series 4?
94. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the material you shot in the MI6 building in series 4?
95. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the material you shot in Casterne Castle, in series 4?
96. Can you tell us how and in what episodes you used the aerial material you shot in a forest in Cardiff in series 4?
97. How did Mrs. Hudson know where John’s therapist lived in order to drive there in The Lying Detective? Did Sherlock tell her before she handcuffed him and locked him in the boot of her car?
98. What did Sherlock mean when he told Ella he needed to talk to her about John Watson?
99. Did Mary kill the flight attendant in The Six Thatchers?
100. What is the reason for the feud between Sherlock and Mycroft that Sherlock refers to in A Study in Pink?
101. Why does Sherlock refer to Mycroft “playing mother” as their “whole childhood in a nutshell” if Mummy Holmes gave up her academic career to raise her children, as she said in His Last Vow?
102. Sherlock refers to having a list of complaints about his mother in The Sign of Three. He also says Mycroft has a file of them. What are they?
103. Why does Sherlock paste John’s face over a picture of DaVinci’s The Vitruvian Man in The Sign of Three?
104. Can you talk about your creative process around the series four promotion “Sherlock’s in love - but who with?”
105. Can you talk about your creative process around the season four promotion “What’s the worst thing you can do to your very best friends?
106. Can you talk about what you meant by the series four promotion “It’s not a game anymore”?
107. You said fans had missed “blindingly obvious” clues over the years. Could you tell us about one?
108. Why did John say he was starving at the end of A Study in Pink when they’d just had dinner at Angelo’s a few hours before?
109. You’ve said that you find “flirting with the homoeroticism in Sherlock much more interesting.” Do you think there are any drawbacks to that?
110. Can you talk a little bit about why you issued a cease and desist order to someone who had posted the series 4 chess promotional picture but didn’t take any legal action against whomever had leaked The Final Problem?
111. Can you talk about the decision making behind the advertising campaign for series 4 “Be part of making history”?
112. You’ve said that you go back to Doyle’s original stories for each episode. In which of Doyle’s stories did John Watson brutally punch and kick Sherlock Holmes?
113. In the commentary for His Last Vow, you mentioned that the first cut of the scene where John discovers Janine coming out of Sherlock’s bedroom “made [John] look as if he was jealous”. Can you tell us a little bit about what made it look like that?
114. In The Empty Hearse, Sherlock says that it was a mistake for him and Mycroft to meet other children and make friends. But in The Final Problem, we discover that Sherlock had a friend in childhood named Victor Trevor. How could Victor have been his friend if he and Mycroft didn’t make friends in childhood?
115. You’ve said that you go back to Doyle’s original stories for each episode. In which of Doyle’s stories did John Watson cheat on his wife?
116. How did Eurus suspend the “Maintain distance of three feet signs” once the glass fronting her cell was gone?
117. You’ve said that many of the clues and red herrings from the previous three series were cleared up in The Final Problem. Could you give us an example of one?
118. What does John mean when he tells Lestrade “We did see it coming… but it was fun.”?
119. Could you talk about your creative process in deciding to have the tag line “It’s not a game anymore” show up in rainbow colors in the series 4 previews?
120. You said that it was “right and proper” to not know anything about Sherlock Holmes’ backstory, and if you did present that backstory, the audience would just say you’d made it up. Could you talk about your creative process that made you change your minds about doing that in series 4?
121. How did Moriarty know to tell Eurus about Molly being in love with Sherlock (so she could set up the “I love you” phone call in The Final Problem) when Sherlock successfully faking his death in The Reichenbach Fall relied on Moriary underestimating Molly?
122. How did Sherlock know that he would end up in the hospital so that Smith would try to kill him if he didn’t know that Faith wasn’t real and he didn’t know that John would attack him in the morgue?
123. You’ve often expressed negative opinions about fanfiction, but isn’t Sherlock itself fanfiction of Doyle’s original stories?
124. In The Abominable Bride, John tells Moriarty “There’s always two of us.” Could you talk about your reasoning process behind the rift in the relationship between Sherlock and John in series 4?
125. Why did Eurus put a dog bowl with the name “Redbeard” on it under the table in the room she set up outside Musgrave Hall for Sherlock if Redbeard was really Victor Trevor and not a dog?
126. Could you talk about your reasoning process behind having Sherlock not experience any repercussions for shooting Magnusson?
127. Why did Mary have time and breath to talk for several moments after being shot, but Sherlock didn’t?
128. You’ve always said that the key to Sherlock’s prowess in the technologically-advanced world he lives in is that he’s still the smartest person in the room, who can put all the clues together. Now that he’s met Eurus, is that still true? If it’s not, what ramifications does that have for him?
129. How could John not know Sherlock’s birthday in series 4 if he’d visited his grave at the end of series 2 and seen the date on his headstone?
130. Could you talk a little bit about the creative process in deciding not to deal, in the show, with Sherlock’s scars from being tortured in Serbia? How do those scars affect him?
I am just putting this out there to see if anybody can help me trace somebody.
She attended the Sherlocked convention in Birmingham UK on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday 27th to 29th October.
On Friday, she was dressed as Sherlock (ok as were quite a few people) with the Belstaff and purple shirt; difference being she had the flower crown in her hair like...
On the Saturday, she wore a long elegant dress with her hair slicked back. On the Friday, when I spoke to her briefly, she had the Sherlock and John kissing t-shirt on, black pants, DM boots and dark eye make-up.
She was accompanied by two girls and an older guy and I believe they are from Germany. She is about 5.8" slim with dark hair.
Please, if anyone recognises this description, could they pass this message on to her or to me as I really need to contact her. Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
I believe @khorazir may have seen her although I believe khorazir only arrived on Saturday morning . Apologies to the additional people I have tagged here but I am just hoping too that you may be able to help as I have read your accounts from the event on tumblr. Thank you!
Forget the Baker Street boys... They're my Scotland Yard boys. (I'm from Scotland hence the Irn Bru 😅 plus the two of them actually love to drink the stuff! Thankfully they got the joke, Rupert's Scottish accent is to die for. It's so good!!)
