SPOILERS! Series 4 Setlock

[Arcadia]

What does Block 1 mean? Episode 1?

[sfmpco]

What does Block 1 mean? Episode 1?

 

yes, but the block is more than just the filming.  It's also the read-thru and maybe a couple days of rehearsal for certain things.  I don't know if there are any days off between the blocks.  I guess we'll find out on Monday.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm trying to recall ... have we seen any filming on North Gower?

[Arcadia]

I haven't.

[sfmpco]

I'm trying to recall ... have we seen any filming on North Gower?

 

Not yet.  But they always do it at least once.... because Moffat and Gatiss always have a picture taken in front of the door!

[sfmpco]

I should add... that doesn't mean there won't be exterior Gower shots in the episode... but as I mentioned previously, they will do all their Gower shots at the same time.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I should add... that doesn't mean there won't be exterior Gower shots in the episode... but as I mentioned previously, they will do all their Gower shots at the same time.

Oh, I missed that completely. Who said it, when?

[sfmpco]

Interesting quote here regarding Mary:

 

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/features/guides/sherlock-news-round-up-everything-we-know-about-season-4?platform=hootsuite

 

Mark Gatiss: “Just because [Mary’s death is] in the stories doesn’t mean it’ll happen in the series because there’s an awful lot of changes and an awful lot of places to go and things to do …  there are lots of surprises to come.”

[T.o.b.y]

Interesting quote here regarding Mary:

 

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/features/guides/sherlock-news-round-up-everything-we-know-about-season-4?platform=hootsuite

 

Mark Gatiss: “Just because [Mary’s death is] in the stories doesn’t mean it’ll happen in the series because there’s an awful lot of changes and an awful lot of places to go and things to do …  there are lots of surprises to come.”

 

I never expected them to kill Mary any time soon. They seem to like her character awfully well and they have only just introduced her. Now she's having a child (which isn't in the stories either) and it would be just too heartless and too dark for this series to tear apart the Watson family like that.

 

And like I've said often enough before: It's not even explicitly said in the original that Mrs Watson is dead. The doctor just mentions a "loss" and it makes sense to assume he's become a widower because for a while, he lives at Baker St again, but for all we really know, they could have just separated.

[Arcadia]

Only for awhile? Then he moves out again? For some reason I pictured them there together in their later years ... probably from the movies.

 

How did they handle it in the Jeremy Brett series? Did he move in and out  a few times there too?

 

Just curious.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Only for awhile? Then he moves out again? For some reason I pictured them there together in their later years ... probably from the movies.

 

How did they handle it in the Jeremy Brett series? Did he move in and out a few times there too?

 

Just curious.

Somebody has sarcastically dubbed the author of the original stories as Arthur Continuity Doyle. Let's just say that consistency was not his strong suit.

 

I sefiously think he tended to forget that Watson was married, and suspect that he originally wrote The Empty House with no mention of Mary whatsoever, until his editor said hey, what about Mrs. Watson? At which point he scribbled in those few words about Watson's "loss" and said there you go!

 

In any case, Watson was in and out of Baker Street in the stories, and many times it's not clear where he's living ... he and Holmes just do stuff together.

 

In the Brett series, Watson was never married. When they dramatized Sign, he merely commented several times that Miss Morstan was a very attractive woman ... which didn't surprise me but did disappoint me.

[Shadow Dweller]

https://sherlockshome.net/setlock/

[Bluebell]

https://sherlockshome.net/setlock/

 

Yay, Sherlock and the dog! Supercuuuuuute!

[Carol the Dabbler]

https://sherlockshome.net/setlock/

 

Yay, Sherlock and the dog! Supercuuuuuute!

 

 

Either Sherlock is teaching the dog to read, or that's Toby! 

 

[J.P.]

Ben shows Denver the Dog a street map and then he and Amanda try to explain him which way to go.

Didn't help much...

[Arcadia]

Yeesh. Clearly the dog already knows how to read, why else would Sherlock be showing it his notes? Elementary.

[sfmpco]

Urm.... I believe Ben is holding a bag of dog treats.

[Shadow Dweller]

Maybe that's why there's some tension on part of the dog, Denver wants to devour the contents but being held back by Amanda :lol:

[Carol the Dabbler]

They're dog treats that were left behind at a crime scene. So they're a clue, and all Sherlock has to do in order to identify the murderer is get Toby to sniff out his trail. But all the dumb dog wants to do is gobble up the treats!

[Arcadia]

You're all wrong. It's clearly a handkerchief that Sherlock is holding out to the dog, because he's about to sneeze. Obvious. :p

[sfmpco]

The dog was actually quite uncooperative on the set and would just stop in his tracks.  Eventually someone on the crew took the end of the lead and became the "dog" off camera.

[Arcadia]

The dog wasn't uncooperative, he was just too intelligent to condescend to all the make-believe. :d

[sfmpco]

Loo Brealey says they have the episode 2 read through today (Wednesday May 11) and Gatiss said that filming resumes next week.  

[Alex the Dabbler]

Well, it looks like filming may be going according to my plan.  I will be in the UK from 29 May through 19 June and I will be in London from the afternoon of 11 June through the morning of 19 June.  With episode 2 filming beginning next week, that may put North Gower Street filming right during the week of 13 June while I'm in London.  My suspicion is that if they are indeed filming all "Baker Street" exterior scenes for all three episodes on one day, I think they would schedule that at the end of filming episode 2 because if they waited until after episode 3, the director for episode 1 may not be available any more (and they'll need all three directors there), and that's my hope :D.

[sfmpco]

I can also confirm that Mary is in episode 2  and that it's written by Moffat.  Heavy drama is on the way!  The Moffat scripts lay it on thick!

 

Crew is apparently working on the exterior Gower Street location today.