Special episode, plus 3 episode series shooting in 2015!

[sittything]

Well, I suppose my early guess on that is going to have to be something for a case that requires fitting in with a costumed crowd.  I'm going to completely rule out time travel unless Sue Vertue tweets a picture of the pair of them in the doorway of the TARDIS, and even then I'll believe that when I see it on the show.  :-)

 

[Boton]

Perfect, Sitty!

 

The creation of that took either a boatload of devotion from someone or a boatload of crazy.  I'm pretty much OK with either.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I feel like being back in school when our teachers handed out the exams upside down and we were not to turn the page around until everyone got theirs. While waiting, I always tried to decipher some of the letters shining through the page.

That's exactly what I was trying to do just now!

It's only a matter of time before someone manages to do just that -- using image-processing software, if not their naked eyeballs.

 

[sittything]

Perfect, Sitty!

 

The creation of that took either a boatload of devotion from someone or a boatload of crazy.  I'm pretty much OK with either.

 

The first time I saw that I briefly thought it was legit.  

[Arcadia]

 

Perfect, Sitty!

 

The creation of that took either a boatload of devotion from someone or a boatload of crazy.  I'm pretty much OK with either.

 

The first time I saw that I briefly thought it was legit.

 

Is there a different photo in your post, sitty? All I'm seeing is a big black empty space, and it's scaring me.....

[T.o.b.y]

Radio Times (a reliable source) says those photos both came straight from Sue Vertue's Twitter account, which does appear to be the case.  And they've been retweeted by Sherlockology as well.  So yeah, they're about as real as it gets.

 

I don't give a damn whether that picture of the two of them as period Holmes and Watson is a clever photoshop fake or something they really did for fun (and to confuse fans), I like it. I've always wanted to see how they'd look in the traditional costumes. Pretty believable, if you ask me! Do a few more of those, clever photoshop artist, and I'll steal them and print them and glue them over the to my mind hideous illustrations in my big Complete Sherlock Holmes.

 

(I do wish they'd done the curly hairdo for Sherlock, though. It doesn't say anywhere that the original Mr Holmes didn't have it, does it.)

 

[sittything]

 

 

Perfect, Sitty!

 

The creation of that took either a boatload of devotion from someone or a boatload of crazy. I'm pretty much OK with either.

The first time I saw that I briefly thought it was legit.

Is there a different photo in your post, sitty? All I'm seeing is a big black empty space, and it's scaring me.....

It's a YouTube video. You can't see it?

[sittything]

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw&sns=em

[sittything]

Crap... It embedded again. I can't just link on my phone for some reason .

[Carol the Dabbler]

I looked at your post with the editor, sitty, and couldn't figure out how to fix it -- but then when I put it back, the link was a link.  Hopefully, it'll stay that way.

 

Arcadia, are you still having trouble seeing the embedded video?

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I was so excited when I saw the script and the photo via my phone earlier.  Then I was talking with a guy who will be turning my paintings into prints & he's a Sherlock fan as well.

[sfmpco]

And this photo appears to have been released in connection with the photo of the script ... some doubt as to its authenticity, for some odd reason ...

 

 

Totally photoshopped... and what happened to Ben's left shoulder?  Hmmm?  Yes, they DID fix that in a re-release of it.  Amanda Abbington said she was there when it was photographed, but it's so obviously photoshopped, even the two of them together.  Hello!!!!

[sfmpco]

There is also a photo on Amanda Abbington's twitter account @CHIMPSINSOCKS that shows her place at the table read and what appears to be Andrew Scott's place to her right.

[Arcadia]

Crap... It embedded again. I can't just link on my phone for some reason .

Arcadia, are you still having trouble seeing the embedded video?

Yep, now it's there! Thanks ladies!

(It's brilliant!)

[sfmpco]

what video?

[Arcadia]

what video?

This one:

http://www.sherlockforum.com/forum/topic/2353-special-episode-plus-3-episode-series-shooting-in-2015/?p=47547

[Carol the Dabbler]

And this photo appears to have been released in connection with the photo of the script ... some doubt as to its authenticity, for some odd reason ...

 

 

Totally photoshopped... and what happened to Ben's left shoulder?  Hmmm?  Yes, they DID fix that in a re-release of it.  Amanda Abbington said she was there when it was photographed, but it's so obviously photoshopped, even the two of them together.  Hello!!!!

 

I agree that the photo appears to be photoshopped -- but that doesn't mean it's a fake, at least not in any sense that we really care about.  OK, so Mr. Cumberbatch and Mr. Freeman weren't actually standing together at the time, so it's two (or more) photos stitched together -- but so what?  Sue Vertue posted it with a "#notkidding" hashtag, so the intent is real, which seems to me like the important thing.

 

Also, Vertue's prior tweet promised "Later on a pic of Sherlock and John as they'll appear in the Special" -- and while "later on" could theoretically apply to anything between then and Doomsday, she was presumably referring to the hat photo.  Of course she didn't say how much of the Special they'll spend looking like that!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

 

I there is one closer in composition to the one above just can't find it as of yet.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Mark Gatiss also posted the pic w/ the missing shoulder then later reposted the corrected photo w/ a line similar to 'the lost story "The Case of the Missing Shoulder"'

[Shadow Dweller]

Yup, if Mofftiss stick pretty close to canon....sooner or later......Mary makes some kind of exit.

 

Mycroft: Now after Mary Watson gave birth to the baby, she no longer have reason to stay so close with my baby brother *insert evil, evil tiny smirk here*  :P

[Carol the Dabbler]

Here's an interview with Mark Gatiss (apparently done while he was in Mumbai for Comic Con), including this bit of technical news:

 

How does technology affect the writing aspect of Sherlock?

 

We try to find new visual ways of what is going on in Sherlocks head and that has been copied even by a lot of shows. People on the team come up with new toys and say look at this and its like that. New cameras, new lenses, are brought in, we got a new camera coming up for the special. It is so new that there are only about three around. It's amazing, it's exciting.

 

Wonder if the new camera will enable them to shoot things that are so different that it'll be obvious to us -- or if it'll just be easier to use and/or yield a better quality picture?

 

[sfmpco]

Here's an interview with Mark Gatiss (apparently done while he was in Mumbai for Comic Con), including this bit of technical news:

 

How does technology affect the writing aspect of Sherlock?

 

We try to find new visual ways of what is going on in Sherlocks head and that has been copied even by a lot of shows. People on the team come up with new toys and say look at this and its like that. New cameras, new lenses, are brought in, we got a new camera coming up for the special. It is so new that there are only about three around. It's amazing, it's exciting.

 

Wonder if the new camera will enable them to shoot things that are so different that it'll be obvious to us -- or if it'll just be easier to use and/or yield a better quality picture?

 

I still want to know what kind of camera they used on him in ASIB when he was drugged on the floor and the camera did a vertical 360 on  him.

[Boton]

 

Yup, if Mofftiss stick pretty close to canon....sooner or later......Mary makes some kind of exit.

 

Mycroft: Now after Mary Watson gave birth to the baby, she no longer have reason to stay so close with my baby brother *insert evil, evil tiny smirk here*  :P

 

 

Now this is the scenario that scares the life out of me.  Not so much the Mycroft angle, but if John is widowered in some way, leaving him with the baby, the entire complexion of the show changes.  He really can no longer run all over London risking his life, because he'd be risking leaving his child an orphan.  If they go this route, they'd better write one fabulous script.

[Shadow Dweller]

 

 

Yup, if Mofftiss stick pretty close to canon....sooner or later......Mary makes some kind of exit.

 

Mycroft: Now after Mary Watson gave birth to the baby, she no longer have reason to stay so close with my baby brother *insert evil, evil tiny smirk here*  :P

 

 

Now this is the scenario that scares the life out of me.  Not so much the Mycroft angle, but if John is widowered in some way, leaving him with the baby, the entire complexion of the show changes.  He really can no longer run all over London risking his life, because he'd be risking leaving his child an orphan.  If they go this route, they'd better write one fabulous script.

 

 

Easy enough to get rid of it, and Messieurs Mofffat and Gatiss had promised for tragedy on season 4.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I still want to know what kind of camera they used on him in ASIB when he was drugged on the floor and the camera did a vertical 360 on  him.

In the Series 2 DVD mini-documentary, they talked about a special camera they used for at least one (other) scene in "Scandal":

 

Sue Vertue (Series Producer): “... Series 2 has still got all the onscreen text and things like that, but there’s just new ways of doing things.”

Paul McGuigan (Director): “Yeah, we had a lot of toys out in this one. We had Phantom cameras which are really high-speed cameras that give you that very very slow slow slow slow motion.”

Benedict Cumberbatch: “You can only shoot about seventeen seconds, I think, per go, then the whole thing has to be calmed down and put in a corner and given a cup of tea and then wound up again. And that was the sequence where I disarm Neilson and clock him on the back of the head, having opened the safe and it explodes. ... And I had to do that incredibly quickly, but it’s all sort of slowed down with the sort of John Woo effect and my hair’s going ... [he makes a sound I’m not even going to try to transcribe!] ... and I get to grab hold of the gun, disarm him and clock him all in one move. That was great fun to do!”

 

... so maybe that's the same camera you're talking about?  (Quote from Ariane DeVere's transcript.)

 

... if John is widowered in some way, leaving him with the baby, the entire complexion of the show changes.  He really can no longer run all over London risking his life, because he'd be risking leaving his child an orphan.  If they go this route, they'd better write one fabulous script.

 

Easy enough to get rid of it, and Messieurs Mofffat and Gatiss had promised for tragedy on season 4.

That would not be tragic -- that would be horrible (and not even clever). I'm sure that Messrs. Moffat and Gatiss can do far better than offing a baby.