Sherlock (the BBC character)

[sittything]

I didn't see a Sherlock thread that wasn't about a specific topic, and I wasn't sure where to put this... so I'm putting it here.  Carol, feel free to move if you see fit.  

 

So I came across the following gif-set on Tumblr:

 

http://bbcsherlockftw.tumblr.com/post/16363283083

 

I guess I haven't seen that commentary, but I assumed the "twiddling" was intentional.  So anyhow, I can't think back to series 3, was there much twiddling in it?   I almost hope he doesn't stop, because to me that's now a very Sherlock thing even though it wasn't meant to be.

 

 

[Arcadia]

I love the twiddling. But sadly, no, I don't remember any in S3.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I thought it was scripted because he seems very good with it.

 

The fact that he was just having fun and not scripted,

ah, make me like him more.

 

Let's make it something to observe for the rewatch!

[sittything]

I'm gonna be watching like a hawk once we get to S3.

[besleybean]

S4?

[J.P.]

From the comments I do remember BC saying that: Here, the twiddling again... I must stop twiddling things. And he did. :D

 

PS: how is it possible not to have a thread for Sherlock on a Sherlock forum?!? :o

[Arcadia]

I'm gonna be watching like a hawk once we get to S3.

S4?

Besley, a group of us are rewatching the whole series, an episode a week ... I think that's what Sitty is referring to.

[besleybean]

Oh right.

Hey...I do that all the time!

[Van Buren Supernova]

From the comments I do remember BC saying that: Here, the twiddling again... I must stop twiddling things. And he did. :D

Can't say that BC always make good decision.

 

Oh right.

Hey...I do that all the time!

You mean twiddling or re-watching?

I do both all the time but while it has been going well with re-watching,

I keep breaking stuffs, hurting myself and people with twiddling attempts.

[besleybean]

I always get accused of breaking  things...and sometimes it's true!

[Boswell]

Does anyone else find it slightly artificial the way Cumberbatch touches the fingertips of his hands together when sitting down to listen to a client? To be fair I loved the gesture when i first saw it because it's mentioned so frequently in the books (and because it draws attention to Cumberbatch's exquisite hands), however in subsequent watchings i have found it seems to take Cumberbatch some effort to do it, and he might probably pull it off more fluidly if he tried a variation of it, such as crossing his fingers instead of just touching them which requires more precision (come to think of it the precision is what probably marks it out as a Sherlockian gesture in the first place?  )

[Carol the Dabbler]

... how is it possible not to have a thread for Sherlock on a Sherlock forum?!? :o

 

Hey, the entire forum is for Sherlock!  :P

 

Well, that's not strictly true, is it?  The entire forum is for Sherlock (the show), and Sherlock (the person) is merely one character in it -- albeit a major one.

 

So -- good move, Sitty.  Now we have a thread for Sherlock himself!

[Arcadia]

Does anyone else find it slightly artificial the way Cumberbatch touches the fingertips of his hands together when sitting down to listen to a client? To be fair I loved the gesture when i first saw it because it's mentioned so frequently in the books (and because it draws attention to Cumberbatch's exquisite hands), however in subsequent watchings i have found it seems to take Cumberbatch some effort to do it, and he might probably pull it off more fluidly if he tried a variation of it, such as crossing his fingers instead of just touching them which requires more precision (come to think of it the precision is what probably marks it out as a Sherlockian gesture in the first place?  )

 

I can't say I noticed anything artificial about it, but I was probably so busy admiring those hands I wouldn't have noticed if they'd given me the bird.... :D

 

No, seriously, I think I know what you mean, but I think of it more as a controlled gesture than an artificial one. His entire body movements become more deliberate when he goes into deduction mode. But I would think that, wouldn't I? -- as The Batch brainwashed me into slavish devotion ages ago......

[Arcadia]

Oh frickity, we've already gone off-topic. Sort of.

 

Sherlock's hands!!!!!!!

 

There. Fixed.

[Boswell]

I seem to have spotted only one instance so far of Sherlock's supposedly favourite declaration "The game is on", and that was in A Study in Pink where he says "The game, Mrs. Hudson, is on"

But in The Sign of Three, which I have seen some parts of, John seems to indicate that Sherlock says this very often. Does anyone know where else he says this?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I can't think of any, offhand.  But you're right -- he must say it a lot when we're not around!

[Arcadia]

Well, he tries to say it in TSo3, and John finishes it for him. Does that count?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Just read Benedict Cumberbatch's (I love saying his full name) transcript from Sherlock.

Someone asked him about the similarity of his role as Sherlock and Alan Turing (except the smart, they are totally different, DUH!)

 

Anyway, this is his answer:

 

"No. They're very different, I think. I am who I am and I look the way I look so there are limits but I tried very much to distinguish between those two characters in particular. Holmes is a very flamboyant extrovert in his field, a show off. He has prowess that he wants people to be impressed by and doesn't really keep his talents close to his chest."

 

Does he really think Holmes is extrovert? What do you guys think? I know there is almost no total extrovert or introvert, and he did specify 'in his field'.

Other than his peacockness to show off his intelligence, he seems pretty much introvert to me.

[J.P.]

Well, intro-/extrovert are still quite vague ideas...

 

But IMO an extrovert wouldn't survive without a Watson before John.

 

Oh... wait a minute: what if the cause of Sherlock looking for a flatmate was that he drove his former flatmate insane, as he did his former landperson? :D

 

I don't see Sherlock as an extrovert, which is not necessarily a contradiction to a show-off. I am extremely introverted, and though, if I find a proper audience, the show-off pops out of me like a Jack-in-the-Box. ;)

[Van Buren Supernova]

Well, intro-/extrovert are still quite vague ideas...

 

But IMO an extrovert wouldn't survive without a Watson before John.

 

Oh... wait a minute: what if the cause of Sherlock looking for a flatmate was that he drove his former flatmate insane, as he did his former landperson? :D

 

That makes Mrs.Hudson and John very special!

 

I don't see Sherlock as an extrovert, which is not necessarily a contradiction to a show-off. I am extremely introverted, and though, if I find a proper audience, the show-off pops out of me like a Jack-in-the-Box. ;)

I can relate 75% to this

[Arcadia]

I don't see Sherlock as an extrovert, which is not necessarily a contradiction to a show-off. I am extremely introverted, and though, if I find a proper audience, the show-off pops out of me like a Jack-in-the-Box. ;)

 

Yes, we've noticed. :P *Runs and hides.*

 

I still can't decide about the introvert/extrovert thing; Sherlock's so flamboyant that I would assume he's an extrovert, yet he's so reserved when he's not showing off that I would assume he's an introvert. Basically, he wears so many masks it's hard to get at the real person. Frustrating man .....

[J.P.]

 

Yes, we've noticed. :P *Runs and hides.*

 

Well, I hope so.

 

In RL it can get muuuuuch worse. :D

 

PS; I like the extro-/introvert definition from the website I linked once (how to survive parties...): Do you need social contacts to recharge, or do you lose your energy while among people?

 

 

[Arcadia]

Yes, that's my favorite definition, it describes everything about me! :D I love being with my friends, etc., but they wear me out if I'm around them too long. Which maybe describes Sherlock? Not enough data.....

[Van Buren Supernova]

I enjoy spending time with small circle friends, and somewhat, weirdly a glue (they never gather again when I moved away), I enjoy trips (trips! = 24/7 together) and actually miss them and make effort to reunite when I got back.

 

While not very close friends, or family gathering, parties and venues, I worn out very quicky and need to get away fast. When there were prolonged extended family visit, I was dying slowly and even endured watching romcom alone in cinema (it's weird! And that bloody ticket seller kept making sure I was alone on top of her lung) to avoid them (no other option that time, people that I like to go to cinema with were not available) XD

 

What am I then...?

 

I thought Sherlock can't stand first scenario and of course second one.

[Arcadia]

Yeah, weirdly enough I'm glue too. Maybe that's one thing they mean by "introverts giving energy" to people? We're the ones who spend the energy it takes to hold our groups together?

 

Which kind of describes Sherlock too; through no apparent effort of his own, he's built a little circle of friends. Although actually I think he has John (a true introvert, imo) to thank for that.