Holiday-Special News ("Abominable Bride")

[sfmpco]

 

I definitely, emphatically, totally do not miss the fake curly mop at all. The Chinese appear to make up a lot of their target audience.

WHAT!?!?!!?   Sacrilege!   Duels have been fought over less!!!!!! Don't make me call you out!! :D 

 

(Must. Defend. The. Hair.....)

 

 

Give me that curly mop any day!!!!  Especially the way it looked in HLV!

[Inge l-w]

Then I hope you keep your lightsaber fully charged, my Jedi friend! Although I would much prefer a rapier and a good old-fashioned main gauche dagger for a duel. What about finding seconds?

Seriously though, if you take a really good hard look at the bonus material and watch the sheet scene in the palace being prepared, he turns three-quarter face and it gives him such an epicene look, I would gladly take your riding crop and beat the living daylights out of the hairdresser! Unless they wanted to continue playing on sexual ambiguity, with which I could never agree, even from SiP, sorry! Just answering Arcadia, not sfmpco, and that picture brings back memories of Khan, and I have always loved Star Trek in all its mutations. Arcadia, you go for cute, I go for clean-cut strong features. To each their taste.

[sfmpco]

He looks quite masculine at all times although in earlier episodes he was a bit alabaster in his makeup.  Not sure what that was about.  Thankfully they started moving away from that in S2.

[besleybean]

I love the alabaster look!

[sfmpco]

He still has the ability to look eternally youthful depending on the lighting and looking more his actual age - which the dark hair helps with.  When he shoots Magnussen, he looks his age or slightly older.

[Arcadia]

Give me that curly mop any day!!!!  Especially the way it looked in HLV!

Oh yeah.

 

Then I hope you keep your lightsaber fully charged, my Jedi friend! Although I would much prefer a rapier and a good old-fashioned main gauche dagger for a duel. What about finding seconds?

Seriously though, if you take a really good hard look at the bonus material and watch the sheet scene in the palace being prepared, he turns three-quarter face and it gives him such an epicene look, I would gladly take your riding crop and beat the living daylights out of the hairdresser! Unless they wanted to continue playing on sexual ambiguity, with which I could never agree, even from SiP, sorry!

"He had an epicene beauty and his iconic character was the ‘thing in itself,’ comedy and pathos in the same figure." Yep, works for me!!!!!

[Arcadia]

He looks quite masculine at all times although in earlier episodes he was a bit alabaster in his makeup.  Not sure what that was about.  Thankfully they started moving away from that in S2.

Something to do with "canon", isn't it? He was described as having very pale skin, wasn't he?

[besleybean]

And fabulous make up!

[sittything]

Oh I mean I like it.

I just think an actor is worth so much more than his hair!

 

I think an actor is more than his hair too, but I think the curly mop mentally created such a division for me between Sherlock and BC. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

Oh I mean I like it.

I just think an actor is worth so much more than his hair!

I think an actor is more than his hair too, but I think the curly mop mentally created such a division for me between Sherlock and BC.

Agreed. I see the curly top and think Sherlock not Benedict. Even though I know it is technically Benedict. Any of his other roles, that I've seen, are not nearly like that.

[sfmpco]

Here's another thought about the special - pure speculation of course.  Moffat and Gatiss are always going on about how their favorite Sherlock movie is "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," and I wondering if they aren't going to do a bit of wink and nod to it in this special.

 

And Sherlock Holmes gets married in that movie, btw.

[sittything]

Here's another thought about the special - pure speculation of course.  Moffat and Gatiss are always going on about how their favorite Sherlock movie is "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," and I wondering if they aren't going to do a bit of wink and nod to it in this special.

 

And Sherlock Holmes gets married in that movie, btw.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I second the gif Sitty.

[Inge l-w]

 

 

I definitely, emphatically, totally do not miss the fake curly mop at all. The Chinese appear to make up a lot of their target audience.

WHAT!?!?!!? Sacrilege! Duels have been fought over less!!!!!! Don't make me call you out!! :D

 

(Must. Defend. The. Hair.....)

Arcadia dear, it's time for you to choose your seconds! The curly mop is not always an advantage, as he could very well be one of Oscar Wilde's band of precious young friends in these ones:

[sfmpco]

Yep, sometimes he's a pretty boy, but not feminine.

[joanneta1]

Hi, to take the matter back to speculation, although I would gladly be inge's second about that curly thing, they might be combining The Noble Bachelor with the Blue Carbuncle and the Valley of Fear. As Mycroft observes in TEH : "the horror"! Also, in the extra material Mr Moffat says that they were always planning to make him wear the deerstalker or "silly hat", but it is an enormous faux pas, because it is definitely for country wear, not the middle of London, as we have seen in Scandal and the ending of TEH. Why can't they stick to the proprieties, at least?

[besleybean]

Sheesh, I can't keep up with this.

 

Anyhow, on the thought of Sherlock getting married in The Special...the thought had crossed my mind.

[joanneta1]

I don't know where this particular rumour  of a marriage for him started, but it is definitely not to be found in that otherwise mediocre film, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Only in the William Gillette play does he do so, to Marie Lloyd, and a very young Charles Chaplin played the page boy, Billy, for several performances.

[Inge l-w]

Yes, he definitely does NOT get married to Ms Hoffmansthal in that film. What the creators like in that thing except a superb rendition of Mycroft by Christopher Lee, I cannot fathom!

[besleybean]

On another matter altogether...did anybody see Mark's tweet about his teeth last night?

[sfmpco]

Please fill us in on the teeth tweet!

[besleybean]

Well he said he had 'strangely hurty teeth'...so I wondered if he was a vampire!

[sfmpco]

Well he said he had 'strangely hurty teeth'...so I wondered if he was a vampire!

 

And yet we haven't seen any setlock pictures of him in any kind of costume...

[besleybean]

Just in a suit, apparently...

[T.o.b.y]

Arcadia dear, it's time for you to choose your seconds! The curly mop is not always an advantage, as he could very well be one of Oscar Wilde's band of precious young friends in these ones:

 

"Oscar Wilde's band of precious young friends"? You know, I think I had better not try to understand what you mean by that. I have a feeling that if I do, I'll get all riled up again and launch into a long rant and have to profusely apologize later.

 

Suffice to say, I think Sherlock looks absolutely lovely in those pics you posted. I love the curls too - I love the entire costume and makeup and hair for him. It's as if somebody had asked me, now, how what would you really, really like? And then went and made it even better. Especially in the first series. He looks amazing in the first series. I would never call that look effeminate, by the way - not that that's a bad thing, mind you. Slightly androgynous at times, yes. Now, I know tastes differ and that's okay, but I personally quite like an androgynous look on some people, for both men and women (gosh, Sherlock and Irene together look so cool).

 

I am pretty excited about the Victorian setting for the special, but if they let go of the curls for good, then I will be pretty sad. Superficial of me, I know. But so it is.