SHERLOCKED: Official "Sherlock" Convention

[Arcadia]

I'm becoming quite a fan of Jonathan Aris!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Okay, Steven's speech, I knew there was something… about the magic… Something that ringed a bell, but I couldn't narrow it down. Until it hit me, literally in the middle of the night.

 

There is one kind of magic I still believe in, and it's what happens when the right people come together and create something, that suddenly becomes much more than the sum of it's parts. You are so lucky that you have found each other, and people sharing the passion with you, the fantastic cast with Benedict and Martin who can carry such complex characters and do it perfectly.

 

This is a part of my letter I wrote to Steven and Sue some time last year (because you never come to say everything you want to).

 

Aaaand…

 

 

 

Hey, neat -- he responded to your letter! 

 

I'm becoming quite a fan of Jonathan Aris!

 

What else have you seen him in?  All I've seen is Ali G Indahouse, wherein he has a small role as a reporter.

[Arcadia]

Alas, I don't remember the names. I've seen him at least once on some BBC show or other (playing something like a lawyer, I think?), and he was in a big name space movie, but for the life of me I can't remember if it was Gravity or The Martian. I rather suspect the latter. It was a small role, though. 

 

At any rate, it's his goofiness at these various conventions that's turning me into a fan, not his roles, although I'm sure they're fine too.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm pretty sure it's The Martian, though I haven't seen that yet (got the DVD, though).

 

I wonder if he's done any comedy?  That would be interesting.

[J.P.]

 

Hey, neat -- he responded to your letter! 

 

I like to imagine that, yes.

 

Maybe it's better I didn't recall it at the moment, because I could pass out or hug attack him on the stage making an idiot out of myself. Not to mention the possibility of a close encounter with Darren the Bodyguard.

 

Evil Stephen, he can disagree with me and still reduce me to a puddle of tears doing so.

[J.P.]

Here is the transcript of Rupert's talk

https://nixxie-pic.tumblr.com/post/168365820553/my-transcript-from-ruperts-talk-onstage-at

[J.P.]

Aaaaand we have the 10th Anniversary!

H… h… how the hell it's so long?! Feeling so damn old!

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

5 hours ago, J.P. said:

Aaaaand we have the 10th Anniversary!

Good heavens, you're right!  I didn't go, though, which presumably makes it harder for me to judge how long it's been.  As I recall (just checked, and yup) you were actually there!  Any thoughts you'd like to share, now that you've had a decade to digest everything?

 

[J.P.]

That my soul still feeds on it, even if my interest shifted. I catch myself grinning at some of the memories.
That I absolutely don't regret spending that little fortune on it.
That I was able to survive it without biting anyone.

Rummaging through the 221B set was the best and at the same time most absurd experience in my life I hope I will never forget it.
2017-10-31 IMG_1040 by alveni, on Flickr

Sherlock's chair was like a black hole - once you fall into it, you cannot come out
WP_20171029_15_34_00_Pro by alveni, on Flickr

At the same time there is still this nagging emotion that I experienced there and that still returns each time my interest in a show reaches a level when I start to follow the cast/crew. It's really hard to grasp, probably because it's actually a mix of extremely different emotions:

1- I don't belong here, in the world of stardom and famous and succesfull people. I even shouldn't be there.

2- Being confronted so closely with people who achieved so much makes me feel like a failure and a waste of oxygen I'm breathing. It's not so much about being a "star", rich and (definitely not) famous, like Ben, but achieving something by doing things one loves - like Arwel or Danny Hargreaves. Or being so brilliantly clever like Moftiss. Short: feeling goldfish-y: dumb, ugly, useless and ashamed.

3- Taking part in something that's basically one big commercial happening intended to pull money out of fans' pockets, which causes that pesky cognitive dissonance. 😬

4- Wanting to ask each one of them so many questions, or just be the fly on the wall while they are discussing things among themselves - while being a fan puts you in a position practically excluding this possibility. I'm jealous of people who are their friends.

5- I'm also jealous about film and show crews developing a sense of chosen family, even if I'm well aware that there is a hidden dark side to it.

4 and 5 haunted me since my first movie-related obsession, but 1 to 3 were new, which is logical, as I had never been in such a situation before Sherlocked. There could be more to that mix, something I cannot see. Or maybe it was just the massive sensory overload messing with my brain.

Right now I'm slightly tempted to go to the German Walker Stalker (The Walking Dead Con), but the private circumstances are against it. I know though, not going will make me sad when I start to read the reports. (Damn, I even have a crazy cosplay idea, I could still realize, theoretically.)

IMG_1077 by alveni, on Flickr

[Carol the Dabbler]

Thank you for your sharing your memories and the photos!
 

1 hour ago, J.P. said:

... maybe it was just the massive sensory overload messing with my brain.

I suspect that's a large part of it.  Plus, as you say, the cognitive dissonance.  We cannot ALL be famous or ALL be in show business, etc.  And frankly, if a choice were necessary (though hopefully it never will be!), the world would get along far better without professional entertainers than it would without the rest of us.

 

[J.P.]

It's not about show business or being famous. It's about finding your place in your own life, a fulfilment. Doing something with a passion and making your living out of it.

Being taken for a brilliant kid did me no good. It set very high expectations for myself, without teaching me resiliency, patience and focus, or how to get rid of fears. It's a recipe for failure.

[Carol the Dabbler]

5 hours ago, J.P. said:

It's not about show business or being famous. It's about finding your place in your own life, a fulfilment. Doing something with a passion and making your living out of it.

Sorry, I misread your earlier post.  And I fully agree that fulfillment is worth striving for -- though I don't think it must necessarily come from one's job.

5 hours ago, J.P. said:

Being taken for a brilliant kid did me no good. It set very high expectations for myself, without teaching me resiliency, patience and focus, or how to get rid of fears.

By recognizing your problem, you have already taken the first (and most crucial) step toward remedying it.