Holiday-Special News ("Abominable Bride")

[sfmpco]

 

 

Somehow I just can't fathom how the words "dark" and "Christmas special" go together. I mean, it's Christmas!

I feel the same. Oh, you mean it's actually Christmas. Did you bring your gun as I suggested?

Great use of an HLV quote. Sherlock at its finest.

 

 

I was set up!!!!

[Arcadia]

You're welcome! :p

[Carol the Dabbler]

I agree with you, it would make no sense if there actually had been a Victorian Sherlock Holmes and modern day Sherlock just happened to have the same name and profession, or if the books existed and... okay, and maybe his parents named him after the fictional character and he turned out a detective like him? Nahhh... that would be terribly unbelievable and dumb.

 

But I do think it would be fun if they brought in Doyle somehow. Just sneaked his name in at some point. I'd get a huge kick out of that.

I'm too lazy to hunt for it, but I'm thinking that Sherlock: Casebook had one little bit where John says that something reminds him of a Conan Doyle story. So perhaps Sir Arthur was an actual person in the Sherlock universe -- but he stuck to writing his beloved historical fiction instead of those silly detective stories.

 

OK, found it (thanks to Amazon's "Look Inside" search feature!) -- it's not John's comment, it's a newspaper article on page 145 -- which is also shown on-screen in "The Reichenbach Fall."  Here's the quote from Ariane DeVere's transcript:  "In a twist worthy of a Conan Doyle novella, Mr Sherlock Holmes was yesterday revealed to be an expert witness at the trial of ‘Jim’ Moriarty."

 

So yes, Conan Doyle did exist in the Sherlock universe.  It's more-or-less official.

 

[sfmpco]

Conan Doyle maybe, but not his Sherlock Holmes stories.

[Sacker]

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Yeeeees!!!  ;-)

 

 

I'll be perfectly honest;  She wrecks me.  ;-)

 

[Arcadia]

Found this on my Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Sherlockology/photos/np.244438951.504666385/860278224035076/?type=1

[T.o.b.y]

Somehow I just can't fathom how the words "dark" and "Christmas special" go together. I mean, it's Christmas!

 

Hmmmm, lets see what happens on Christmas in Sherlock's world. A bunch of annoying people disturb his peace and quiet at Baker Street, the only woman he ever sort of loved supposedly dies and he has to go to the morgue to identify her by her body, because her face is a mess of blood and bone. Another year, he goes to the house of the only man in the world he ever truly hated and turns his face into a mess of blood and bone. Merry Christmas!

 

I generally like dark, so that prospect doesn't bother me. I'm nervous about a lot of other things for the special and series 4, but not that. Dark is fine.

 

[Arcadia]

Yep, I enjoyed Die Hard too. :P

[Carol the Dabbler]

... Sherlock: Casebook had one little bit ... OK, found it ... -- ... it's a newspaper article on page 145 -- which is also shown on-screen in "The Reichenbach Fall."  Here's the quote from Ariane DeVere's transcript:  "In a twist worthy of a Conan Doyle novella, Mr Sherlock Holmes was yesterday revealed to be an expert witness at the trial of ‘Jim’ Moriarty."

 

So yes, Conan Doyle did exist in the Sherlock universe.  It's more-or-less official.

 

Conan Doyle maybe, but not his Sherlock Holmes stories.

 

Right, definitely not his Holmes stories.  Like I said above, in the Sherlock universe, Conan Doyle probably just stuck to writing historical fiction -- which he vastly preferred anyhow, or at least that's what he's been quoted as saying.  And he was apparently knighted for the historical fiction as well, so he could still be Sir Arthur in the Sherlock universe.

 

Regardless of whether one considers Conan Doyle's Holmes stories to be fiction or fact, they would not exist in the Sherlock universe:  If fiction, then Conan Doyle didn't have to invent him, because he's real.  Or if fact, Conan Doyle couldn't write about him because he hadn't been born yet.

 

Hmm -- unless Conan Doyle was born later in the Sherlock universe as well!  That would be a whole new kettle of fish, wouldn't it?

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Found this on my Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Sherlockology/photos/np.244438951.504666385/860278224035076/?type=1

 

Apparently I don't have permission to read that page -- maybe because I'm not Sherlockology's "friend"?  If that Facebook item has a link to one of their other sites, could you post a link to it?  Thanks!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That's could be some fun speculation.

[sfmpco]

 

Found this on my Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Sherlockology/photos/np.244438951.504666385/860278224035076/?type=1

 

Apparently I don't have permission to read that page -- maybe because I'm not Sherlockology's "friend"?  If that Facebook item has a link to one of their other sites, could you post a link to it?  Thanks!

 

 

I can't read that page either.

[T.o.b.y]

I just saw this picture. The director published it, so I don't have any qualms linking to it here:

 

 

Doesn't tell us anything, but it looks beautiful, don't you think?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Agreed on both counts for that pic. It keeps the guessing & speculation high.

[Zain]

A monastery's passageway? Or a school building's? 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

A monastery's passageway? Or a school building's? 

 

It's more or less a flying buttress attached to the exterior wall of the church/cathedral they were filming at.

[Arcadia]

 

Found this on my Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Sherlockology/photos/np.244438951.504666385/860278224035076/?type=1

 

Apparently I don't have permission to read that page -- maybe because I'm not Sherlockology's "friend"?  If that Facebook item has a link to one of their other sites, could you post a link to it?  Thanks!

 

Ooops, sorry! I'll take a look later tonight and see what I can figure out.

 

EDITED: Oh, wait, I just noticed, it's the same picture T.o.b.y posted just above. The only other bit was that one of the comments noted that "FPS 25.000" (in the upper left hand corner) may refer to a high film speed ("frames per second"?), ergo, this scene may be in slow motion.

 

BTW, 25 FPS doesn't sound that high to me, anybody know the technical aspects of this?

[Zain]

 

A monastery's passageway? Or a school building's? 

 

It's more or less a flying buttress attached to the exterior wall of the church/cathedral they were filming at.

 

 

 

Okay, I learned a new word Thanks for correcting me. I was however more thinking of how they could use the location in-story.

[sfmpco]

25 fps is the normal speed.

[sittything]

Some pics:

 

https://twitter.com/Bristol_Culture/status/559751516425551872/photo/1

 

https://twitter.com/SheRacheLockedy/status/559741916544499712/photo/1

 

 

Erm, part of the flat is outside... lol

 

 

 

[monkeylite]

Here's a photo taken at Bristol Cathedral Choir School today:

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/ml73aw.jpg

 

 

[sfmpco]

They are in the midst of a night shoot today - apparently a cold shoot per Amanda Abbington @CHIMPSINSOCKS

[Caya]

Here's a photo taken at Bristol Cathedral Choir School today:

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/ml73aw.jpg

 

Wow, what a way to introduce yourself to the forum - welcome, monkeylite!

 

Say thanks to your son from us . And a big thanks to you for digging up the right thread to post this.

 

 

[sfmpco]

One interesting thing is that Mary is NOT pregnant in the Victorian outfits.  

[sfmpco]

Here's a photo taken at Bristol Cathedral Choir School today:

 

http://i57.tinypic.com/ml73aw.jpg

 

Holy moley!