Holiday-Special News ("Abominable Bride")

[Carol the Dabbler]

... one can hope for a cutting "Elementary!" remark.

And the way Benedict is sitting, I can't see if he has Irene's sovereign on his watch chain, as he should. Aargh!

 

Don't forget "The game is afoot!"!  :D

 

I'm still not sure how I feel about all this.  Like I'm glad to see any Sherlock, but I can't really envision where they are going with this, and it's making me uneasy.

 

If Moftisses are to be believed, the special is a one-time deal -- just a way of getting those Victorian urges out of their system.  So as Inge says, we should expect tons of miscellaneous canon references (even though the plot is reportedly not taken from Conan Doyle).  As of Series 4, they will presumably be safely back in the 21st century -- curls, no mustache, and all.  (And apparently parts of the Special are set in the current day as well, judging by the John-and-Mary-in-airport-clothing scene and the promise that we'll find out what gives with Moriarty.)

 

Gatiss has now posted that something more substantial is going down at 12:15 am UK time.... Sherlock related

 

Thanks!  That'll be 7:15 pm in the Eastern US time zone, just over two hours from now.  There was talk of a Special promo to be shown at Comic Con -- wonder if the BBC might be posting that?

[sittything]

When is the SDCC panel today?

[J.P.]

Definitely not staying awake until 1:15. Not this time.

[Carol the Dabbler]

When is the SDCC panel today?

 

It'll be for an hour starting at 3:45 pm California time -- which is 6:45 East Coast time or 11:45 UK time -- in other words, about 45 minutes from now!

[sittything]

Did we all watch it?!    

 

[Arcadia]

Not yet, too busy making dinner! :D Aghgh, and now I have no alone time .....

[sittything]

Priorities, Arcadia.  Priorities.

[T.o.b.y]

Did we all watch it?!    

 

 

YES! I DID! I STAYED UP FOR IT! IT IS NOW 2:20 a.m. WHERE I LIVE AND I CANNOT GO TO SLEEP NOW, I AM SO EXCITED!

 

I think I need to breathe into a bag, I really do. I WANT THIS SPECIAL RIGHT NOW! It will be hilarious, it will be wonderful, it will be amazing!

 

Everybody: Read Conan Doyle before this Christmas. Really, do. If this clip is representative of the whole episode, then it must be a running commentary on the source material, and I predict that this time, some direct knowledge of the stuffy old books will be necessary to appreciate the humor.

 

SEND HELP I AM HYPERVENTILATING AND LAUGHING SO HARD. I think I am going crazy. I WANT MORE CLIPS! I want images, I want everything.

 

You can't know how cool this is for me. I have been down in the dumps for a while and am so in need of a little comic relief and Sherlock's blessed voice, you can't imagine. This is a godsend.

[sittything]

Me too, Toby!  Well, it's not 2:20 AM here, but I literally got 45 min. of sleep last night.  I was wiped and ready to SLEEP the evening away and now I'm wired!!!

 

 

[Shadow Dweller]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Asbi4APb0

[Arcadia]

 

Did we all watch it?!    

 

Everybody: Read Conan Doyle before this Christmas. Really, do. If this clip is representative of the whole episode, then it must be a running commentary on the source material, and I predict that this time, some direct knowledge of the stuffy old books will be necessary to appreciate the humor.

 

 

Finally snuck in a look ... OMG, that was hysterical! Woohoo! And everyone watch the whole series one more time before it airs too, there's references referencing the references!!! Irreverently! 

 

"I'm your landlady, not a plot device!"

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Love it, love it, love it!!! 

 

... and that's only one sixtieth of the whole Special! 

 

 

 

 

Does anyone else find the opening music just a tad reminiscent of the Jeremy Brett theme?

 

[sittything]

I feel like I should watch Jeremy Brett since everyone keeps comparing them.

[Pamela]

Fantastic! Amazing! What a treat this is going to be.

 

I've been a Sherlockian since age 18, so I concur - knowing the ACD canon will really be a plus in appreciating this.

 

Oh, what fun this is going to be!

[Carol the Dabbler]

I want a transcript of the Special promo and Ariane DeVere doesn't have one up (yet?).  So:

 

 

Baker Street, 1895.  Snow flurries.  Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages.  Vaguely Brett-ish music.

 

Mrs. Hudson opens the door of #221 as a cab pulls up and Holmes (puffing on a pipe) & Watson alight.  She accosts Holmes on the sidewalk as Archie the pageboy emerges from the house.

 

MRS. HUDSON:  Mr. Holmes!  I do wish you'd let me know when you're planning to come home.

 

HOLMES:  I hardly knew myself, Mrs. Hudson.  That's the trouble with dismembered country squires -- they're notoriously difficult to schedule.

 

ARCHIE (peering at a basket that Watson is carrying):  What's in there?

 

WATSON (dismissively):  Never mind.

 

HOLMES (paying the cab driver):  Thank you.

 

Archie lugs two large suitcases into the house, followed by Holmes and Watson (with the basket) as Mrs. Hudson holds the door for them.

 

ARCHIE:  Did you catch a murderer, Mr. Holmes?

 

HOLMES:  Caught the murderer, still looking for the legs.  Think we'll call it a draw.

 

MRS. HUDSON:  And I noticed you've published another of your stories, Doctor Watson.

 

WATSON (pauses on the doorstep -- nods and smiles at her):  Yes.  Did you enjoy it?

 

MRS. HUDSON (smiles broadly, then stops abruptly and wrinkles her nose):  No.  (Turns and enters the house)

 

WATSON (follows her into the house):  Oh?

 

MRS. HUDSON:  I never enjoy them.

 

WATSON:  Why not?  (closes the door a bit more forcefully than absolutely necessary)

 

MRS. HUDSON:  Well!  (spreads her hands)  I never say anything, do I?  According to you I just show people up the stairs and serve you breakfast.

 

WATSON (hangs up his hat and coat, then smiles at her somewhat apologetically):  Well, within the narrative, that is broadly speaking your function.

 

MRS. HUDSON (indignantly):  My what?!

 

HOLMES:  Don't feel singled out, Mrs. Hudson.  I'm hardly in the dog one.

 

WATSON:  "The dog one"?!

 

MRS. HUDSON:  I'm your landlady (wags her finger at him as he starts up the stairs), not a plot device.

 

WATSON (indignantly):  D'you mean "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?

 

MRS. HUDSON:  And you make the rooms so drab and dingy!

 

WATSON:  Oh, blame it on the illustrator, he's out of control!  (starts up the stairs)  I've had to grow this mustache just so people would recognize me.

 

 

 

 

Please let me know if I've missed anything!

 

[Arcadia]

Oh man, and people said TEH was too self-referential! I love this!

[sfmpco]

A little bit more...

 

http://mashable.com/2015/07/09/sherlock-andrew-scott-comic-con/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss

[sfmpco]

And and this important bit:

 

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-07-09/sherlock-victorian-special-to-air-at-christmas-and-will-be-screened-in-cinemas-across-the-world

[sfmpco]

The fabulous sneak peek!

 

[Inge l-w]

OK! Deep breaths, no reason for excitement! This is just the beginning of luring us all back! It's fish-bait and right now I'm feeling like Frankie the Shark in Sharktales! Obviously they are going to get everything Sherlock that was too intractable into this! Even the all-important pipe! It's Christmas! ( not literally, as in HLV, figuratively as in SiP).

As for the music, they blended their own with the Granada theme, but there's an undertone of that mediocre film's theme in there as well, The Secret Life one.

Anyone watching Jeremy Brett, please pay particular attention to the importance of Mrs Hudson in their lives and to JB's eloquent hands!

Dear TOBY, as for BC's voice, there is the second Rumpole on BBC 4 at 14:15 GMT today.

[sfmpco]

The comicon video with Andrew, Benedict and Mark.

 

[Inge l-w]

Dear sfmpco, you are a priceless treasure in our midst! Thanks for all your journalist efforts to keep us updated! Here's to getting yourself every charm you have ever wished for!

And did you notice the short hair of indeterminate colour? What sort of Danish prince would have that hair colour?

Apparently has changed his iPhone ringtone to Sherlock for the occasion and he still orchestrates everything by "forcing" Mr Cumberbatch to soliloquise in a perfectly pedestrian manner and uses the famous quotation differently, from "Come on then, off you pop" to "off you go"!

It's a tour de force, hats off to the Irish evil genius!

[sfmpco]

Yes, i saw all the Moriarty bits that Andrew did.  Of course it wasn't a live phone call.  And Benedict's hair is longer than that now as evidenced by his July 4th outing in London with his wife.  I would suspect that was taped a couple of months ago.

[besleybean]

F*** sake(sorry!)I just roll out of bed and am faced with all of this?!

Where to begin?

Ok, LOVED the clip...laughed out loud and did anybody else just feel they were watching the series and didn't want it to end?

If this is how Mark and Steven write together...then they should always write together!

Anyhow, very excited about the Special now and that it is just over 5 months away!

LOVED the Andrew piece, too...so- IS he in it?!

[Fantasy Lover]

I heard something about the special involving how Moriarty faked his dead . So yes he's in it

 

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