So Since Anderson Has Been Pretty Well Redeemed For Us...

My favourite game is 'Did Benedict dress himself today?'

For example

No:

Yes:

No:

Yes:

No:

Yes:

Sherlock Series 3: Interactive Trailer

Sherlock is alive and back 01.01.14 on BBC One. Unlock exclusive clips and pictures from series 3 in this interactive trailer.

The BBC trailer (linked here) is the same as the PBS one (previous post) - except unsurprisingly the BBC one is better - it's interactive with a feast of clips and goody goodness.

Also now I think the person who didn't matter might be Anderson. 

But the real question is: how do you unlock the locked bits???

http://ivyblossom.tumblr.com/post/98348940620/we-always-think-we-know-people-every-time-we

We always think we know people.

Every time we open our mouths, we reshape the shape people give us inside their own heads. Everyone, even someone we’ve just met, has a whole picture of us, a picture made up mostly of what they imagine about us, things they infer based on preferences, experiences,...

2007

Convo between my 7-year-old students today

Josie: I have a new crush

Matt: Me too! On a boy!

Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?

Matt: Yeah, he's really cute.

Pearl: Oh.

(pause)

Matt: Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.

Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.

Matt: Really?

Josie: Yeah! My tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.

Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.

Dave: (from across the room) No, you can't, you're seven.

(Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage.)

The Reunion scene

Sherlock: imma surprise john ok bowties are cool ooh glasses and moustache then we can be moustache buddies

Sherlock: JAWN BAGUETTE BAGUETTE FILLET MIGNON OH LA LA

John: omg marys coming what am i gonna do

Sherlock: JAWN

John: did you hear something?

Sherlock: LOOK AT ME JAWN BAGUETTE

John: omg there she is get me some wine please waiter i refuse to look at so this emotional scene is funny

Sherlock: fine...

Mary: hey john

John: hey sherlock i mean mary

Mary: what were you gonna ask me?

John: oh

Mary: well?

John: well youre awesome mary

Mary: ikr

John: so i was wondering if

Sherlock: BAGUETTE BAGUETTE IM REICHENBACK WITH YOUR WINE JAWN

John: yeah whatever dude- OMFG

Sherlock: suRPRISE BITCH

John:

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock: Not dead?

Mary: omfg hat man and robin my otp i mEAN OMG SHERLOCK WHAT WHEN WHY HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO HIM

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock:

John: 2 years

Sherlock: i know but before you punch me i moustache you a question

John:

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock:

John:

Sherlock: watson your face

John:

Sherlock:

Sherlock later: ow.

Husbands.

Long but worthwhile link.

So okay. In sum. Over the weekend, the Sherlock team held a screening of the next season's first episode with a Q&A. The moderator, a journalist who likes to appear edgy, took a derisive tone overall, saddling the stars with an impromptu reading of a fan-written story, and mocking the fans and the enterprise of fan fiction. 

Two things about journalists/reporters/media. 

Thing one: the dichotomy between fans who like to create work based on a popular show, and the people being paid to do so, isn't actually there. In this case, the show itself is fan fiction riffing on the original canon. And one of the showrunners has done work under a pseudonym. The media would like to have the story of two sides pitted against each other, but it really doesn't seem to exist. It seems to me that the problem is a chip on the shoulder of critics against creators. 

Thing two: the non-stop press cavalcade needs to stop. There's an Internet. There's Skype. There are green screens. Even if you're not Beyonce and you need a bit of promotion, why on earth must artists be salesmen and go on rounds? I'd much prefer if they were able to focus on their job, and maybe did one long, relaxed interview. Cut that up and syndicate it for promotion, then put the whole thing in the extras to give people another reason to purchase. Let's maybe stop treating talent quite so much like performing monkeys and be grateful for the few artists who are actually gifted. 

Saturday’s madness with the Empty House screening was the not just the last straw, but a turning point....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads for the Story of Christmas

Benedict Cumberbatch reads "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" for the 2012 Story of Christmas charity appeal held at St. George's Hanover Square, London on 19th Dec....

Does what it says on the tin. 

I've been thinking this too, to my surprise. 

I’m just warning you now, I think I’m going to explode with adoration and complete love for Amanda Abbington soon. From what I’ve seen from her so far, she already had my heart. Like, I’m probably going to favor her above all the cast.

I FEEL IT IN MY BONES.