Benedict Cumberbatch News

[sfmpco]

I'm sorry, but what is predictable and boring?

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Congrats to them on their special day twice over.

[Arcadia]

Aw, lovely. Happy for them.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Adam Ackland will be Benedict's best man.

 

Actually, Martin Freeman is. :P Well, congratulations to them! Lucky buggers! :lol:

[sfmpco]

Martin Freeman wasn't confirmed as that - it was just speculated.  Amanda said she was expecting a lovely weekend at home with her family of 4.  At any rate, Tom Hiddleston WAS there...

 

http://sariscrazyworld.tumblr.com/post/111015585318/torrilla-tom-hiddleston-seen-on-the-isle-of

[Arcadia]

So, they just recycled the costumes from TSo3? :D

[sfmpco]

Andrew Scott was also spotted, but no pics of him yet.  It would be cool if indeed Martin were asked to best man, as that would be a wink to TSOT, but it just seems to me that it would have been Adam Ackland.  Adam is a pretty good photographer, so perhaps he'll post an Instagram pic of the happy couple in their wedding attire.  I do hope that we eventually get to see them in their wedding clothes.

[sfmpco]

Here's Andrew...

 

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566704868178792450

 

And more wedding guests...

 

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566705950867079168

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566703858421075968

[J.P.]

 

Adam Ackland will be Benedict's best man.

 

Actually, Martin Freeman is. :P Well, congratulations to them! Lucky buggers! :lol:

 

As cute as it would be (of course I thought of MF too), I have to remind myself not mix the fantasy with reality. They are real people with real lives that are far more than what we want to see in them. 

[besleybean]

Amanda said Martin would not be there.

I assure you, Adam is Benedict's best friend.

[sfmpco]

These pics just in.

 

https://twitter.com/juxsymet/status/566727772304052224

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Here's Andrew...

 

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566704868178792450

 

And more wedding guests...

 

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566705950867079168

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566703858421075968

The 1st pic looks more like Hiddleston than Andrew. But either way it is still a good pic.

[sfmpco]

The first pic IS Hiddleston but the 2nd is Andrew.  Also there was his friend pianist James Rhodes and Guy Garvey (lead singer from Elbow).

 

And then there were the fireworks:

 

https://twitter.com/ReallyGreenHoli/status/566729816440057858

[sfmpco]

A little bit more...

 

https://twitter.com/Anythingbatch/status/566750554693857280

[SherlockedCAMPer]

My phone apparently didn't want to show me the 2nd pic.  Silly phone.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Nice little church.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

the 1 pic I saw of the inside reminded me a little bit of the church in "The Last Enemy" even though the outside is different.

[Inge l-w]

I'm sorry, but what is predictable and boring?

Dear sfmpco, getting married on St. Valentine's Day, obviously. To me, St Valentine's Day is inextricably linked with the 1929 Chicago massacre.

It is a thoroughly fictitious, made-up celebration of a rather undistinguished Catholic Saint, turned into the protector of lovers through the good graces of American florists, bakers and cuddly toy purveyors for the gullible, and it has insidiously spread around the world. If you love someone, want to share your life with them, there are another 364 days left in the year on which to get married. Moriarty would certainly have exclaimed: "Ordinary, Sherlock!"

Still, congratulations to both of them, he deserves happiness and a stable family environment, and she seems the lady for the job.

[sfmpco]

But since it IS a day dedicated to lovers, then for him to choose that day above all days is just thoroughly romantic of him.  Hardly ordinary.  Ordinary would be to choose one of the 364 other days.  When one comes across insipid, vitriolic hatred against BC like the following:

 

https://twitter.com/CumberBalls/status/566810383642406912/photo/1

 

One can only rise up and say enough.  I do not say this to you personally, but the whole business of BC getting a girlfriend, getting her pregnant, getting engaged, getting married on Valentines Day all to promote his chances of getting an Oscar for The Imitation Game (a thoroughly disgusting idea and completely off-base), well... it's enough.

 

What I see is a man who has found his soul mate, and I don't say that often because I don't see if often, but I see it with him.  He chose to marry the love of his life on Valentines Day.  I consider that extraordinary and oh so romantic.

[besleybean]

I am even worse!

I must warn everybody on the board:  I absolutely loathe weddings and have am extremely jaded view of marriage!

So if you are a romantic...do not read on!

I am the woman who stood and cheered Sherlock's best man speech...basically everything he said, that's what I think!

Ok so all of that being said, here goes.

I think if 2 people love each other, want to spend their life together and maybe raise a family...they should just do that.

I see no need for either a pointless ceremony or a stupid piece of paper.

If people want to be together they will be...no license is going to keep them together.

Now if people are religious, things may be slightly different...they kind of might have to marry, that's up to them.

I know nothing of Sophie's religious views.

I understood if Benedict aligned himself with anything, it was Buddhism...

Now obviously I don't know, but I am a tad surprised at at church wedding at all.

Having said that.

I reckon Sophie could be up to 6 months pregnant...and she's wearing a full white veil? Really?  Give me a break.

On a feminist point of view, I don't agree with women in white and veils anyway...

But if I was a vicar I personally wouldn't marry an obviously pregnant woman in white.

But as we  all have said: in the end:  it's between the couple.

It's up to them.

As  long as they are happy and had a good day...who cares?

Benedict remains my fave actor, Sophie seems lovely.They are obviously totally in love and obviously I only wish them all future happiness.

[sfmpco]

Well, I am a romantic but I do loathe weddings.  I have the coldest feet in the USA, I suspect, which is why I've never walked the aisle.  No, that is not for me personally, but I have no problem with others doing it.  I'd prefer to go through the drive-up window in Las Vegas while on the back of a motorcycle.  I'm not into the fuss and planning and all that stuff that turns my stomach.  I don't need to put on a show for everyone.  No, that will never happen.  But I have no problem with others doing it.  I don't generally attend weddings - well, to be honest, I am not around people getting married, but if I ever did, trust me, it would be completely private and just sort of happen.

 

Ben and Sophie went (mostly) traditional all the way, and I think that's lovely!

[Inge l-w]

Oh, I would never have made the connection of his marriage to upping his chances for an Oscar. He is very pragmatic, both feet firmly planted on the ground, I would never consider it a ploy, so perhaps he indulged her on a whim, but still, I have never liked the St. Valentine nonsense, which was probably started in the 1950s by Hallmark.

P.S. besleybean, you mean the whole thing lifted from the end of the Sign of Four coupled with the opening of The Blanched Soldier and then sprinkled with :" Today, we honour the deathwatch beetle that is the doom of our society, and in time, one feels certain, our entire species." I am with you all the way, it is my favourite piece in that episode, before he goes into full Sherlock mode. And no, I am not a Romantic, you might say I am stuck in Enlightenment with a bit of post-modernism thrown in for good measure.

[Caya]

I had much of the same opinion about marriage (as in, "okay, my partner wants it so I'm game, but I don't need that piece of paper to love him") - right until we actually got married (eta: @besleybean: no white or veil though, I found that ridiculous as well as we'd been living together half a year by then). Being married does make a difference, though it's hard to describe, but standing in front of people, the state (and if you so believe, the god of your ceremony) and declaring yes, he is the one for me, it changes things. In a good way, don't get me wrong. It very much strenghtened the you and me against the rest of the world bond between us.

 

Having now outed myself as a romantic, my first reaction upon reading here that their marriage date was Valentine's Day nevertheless was, "Lazy one, he wants to make sure he never forgets their anniversary date, and he saves on one flower occasion too." :P But in the end, if they're both happy with the date (and they appear to be) more power to them ;).

[J.P.]

Wouldn't you say that at least some of the photos look like somebody made them hiding in the shrubs? Setlock strikes again? As if professional paparazzis weren't enough... 

[Carol the Dabbler]

As somebody pointed out, back there somewhere, Valentine's Day may simply have been the only day they both had off work for the foreseeable future!  And I saw that "it's all a ploy to help him win an Oscar" drivel -- someone sure has an overactive imagination.