Oh, that title. That title. Tomorrow, let us all rejoice in yet another ninety minutes of Sherlock. How many thousands of GIFs will it spawn? Will our brains break again? HOW IS STEVEN MOFFAT GOING TO UPDATE THIS WONDERFUL STORY? Also how cute is Martin Freeman’s face? I’ve won no BAFTA awards and I don’t care. Let’s liveblog Sherlock, shall we?
I can’t wait. I CANNOT WAIT.
Now, this liveblog is going to be different for everyone, since it’s not airing officially in the United States. Like all liveblogs with relative airings, this liveblog starts when you have access to “The Hounds of Baskerville.â€Â Use the comments below as your glorious canvas. In order to avoid spoilers, please try to avoid going back and commenting on comments made on the front page so those of us who are liveblogging can stick to the front page to leave them.
The review for this will NOT take the place of a Buffy review. You’ll still get five of those. This will just be an extra one! I’ll have it up Monday or Tuesday, and I’ll tweet from @MarkDoesStuff when it’s up. Thanks!
FFFFF it really sucks that I can't watch these yet 🙁 Seeing all the exciting reviews and liveblogs up here makes me sad… That said, OMG HOW WILL THEY DO THIS STORY IN THE MODERN DAY. EXCITING.
One thing that kinda worries me is that I'm bound to be disappointed one way or another.
This is my favorite SH story (and I'm sure it's many people's as well) and it is also the best known. So either the writers are going to have to change the story and risk losing whatever quality the original had that made it so popular, or stick to the story which is already 'spoiled' for us.
It's a fine line. I hope the writers come through.
Oh, hiya. Haven't been here in a while. I try and pop in now and again for reviews of shows I watch. (I've never seen Buffy. DON'T JUDGE ME. okay judge me a little.)
Read through the other comments. I've found it interesting that Moffat's image on the internet has become a caricature with overemphasized sexism. It's like people think he's some sort of mythical creature that exists solely to set feminism back 150 years. It's becoming increasingly difficult to take what could be very valid claims of sexism seriously because there's about 400 different claims surrounding them that are just people microanalyzing tedious details that vaguely resemble something misogynistic and extrapolating wildly.
I use to have to watch Moffat episodes through sexism-tinted lenses, as if there's some curmudgeon over my shoulder refusing to allow me to enjoy an episode by crying foul about how everything that happens is remarkably offensive to women. But I'm glad to have at last been able to shed those lenses and just enjoy genuinely masterful storytelling.
Maybe this is a better discussion for the Scandal in Belgravia review thread.
Sherlock as a whole is a joint Moffat/Gatiss thing, with, undoubtedly, contributions from Sue Vertue (producer) and Beryl Vertue (the third executive producer). Beyond that, this episode is written by Mark Gatiss, so I'd say that discussing it terms of Moffat's sexism is pretty irrelevant, regardless of what you think of A Scandal in Belgravia (or, indeed, his other work).
In terms of what you are saying, my only comment would be to suggest that confirmation bias works both ways (or, to use your metaphor, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between removing lenses and changing to a different pair). Still, I think that discussion would still be more relevant when applied to Scandal in Belgravia rather than here.
Well, sometimes the shit we love is problematic – it took me a long time to enjoy The Lord of the Rings again after someone pointed out that it is basically a Good White People (elves, hobbits, humans) vs. Dark Bad People story (Sauron, the Ringwraiths etc), with too few women and a lot of anti-Industrial Age rhetoric built in.
In the case of Sherlock I just don't listen to the Moffatt comments, or comments on those comments at all. At some point, a work does stand independently of its creator and I don't want to lose the brilliance of this show behind some idiotic things its writer said.
So excited!
Although the previews have made me wibble a bit I cannot wait. This will be awesome.
I don't need to see the episode to tell you that Martin Freeman's face is cuter than all the puppies and kittens in the world. Even cuter than this video.
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Will return with a deeper analysis tomorrow, when I've actually seen it.
EXCITE!
Oh gosh, I had such good intentions to be productive this afternoon, and then I discovered that Martin Freeman was on the Graham Norton Show.
I regret nothing.
MARTIN FREEMAN WAS ON THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW? Oh, dissertation, you are just *not* getting written.
UGH, that entire show was just so brilliant. *u*
Noooo way. There is nothing cuter than that video. >w<
Not sure if I'll take part in the liveblog itself as fellow Sherlock loving sister is home and may not appreciate the noise of my constant typing during the show but I am so excite!
Also Martin Freeman's face is too cute.
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And extra adorable as John.
YAY! about to start!
The transition between the little kid screaming and the guy standing in the field was weird…
Oh, Sherlock.
GEORGE!, It was a werewolf attack 🙂
'perhaps you could put away your harpoon'
WATSON EXPECTS YOU TO APOLOGIZE AND YOU WILL.
Boardgames with John & Sherlock. <3
RADIOACTIVE MUTANT DOGS?
In your own time.
But quite quickly.
possibly my favourite quote of the whole episode. So subtle, but so good
All I could think near the end was "Are you my mummy?"
Never be able to look at a gas mask the same way again, I swear…
I seriously thought his stolen Mycroft ID at the gate was going to be psychic paper.
Me too! I totally went in my head "Out comes the psychic paper…" and then I realized I was thinking about the wrong show.
Plus I kept going "Oh it's going to be a werewolf." and calling Watson companion mentally on accident. And giggling every time I thought "Allons-y Alonso!"
'Skipping to the night your Dad was violently killed', oh Sherlock, so tactfull
The kid killed his own dad. It was a hallucinatory tailspin blackout.
Nice eyetwitch with the "SMOKE", Sherly.
does john have a winnie the pooh cup?? i'm just going to go with it
DEMENTORS. HE SAW DEMENTORS.
Awww they're going on a little trip to a cozy coastal B&B for some rest and relaxation.
The rabbit is going to end up being very important isn't it?
It was being experimented on.
ETA: HOLY GOD.
Damn, Devon. You fiiiiine.
Dear Moffat:
Please find a way to incorporate Benedict astride some colossus of a windswept rock into every episode from hereon in.
Thx.
COSY B&B. CALLED IT.
Cutest. Barmen. Ever.
John's stopped trying to deny it, he's just ignoring it now.
Psychotropic water supply! And I bet that kid's been in the site perimeters…
Psychic paper, John.
That's what I thought! XD He held it in exactly the same way as the Doctor does.
John, you know i love it when you get all militant. :3
Watson is awesome, sir.
Nice of them to remember that Johns been in the army.
Haha he was working the rabbit's case all along.
OH MY GAWD
THE TENSION
GET OUT GET OOOOOUT
GET OOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUT
I do not like that Major.
I do not like him, Sam I Am.
And what's he up to?
'That would be tremendously ambitious of you'
Don't stop him from doing his collar thing.
I must say, I am rather liking the non-urban settings.
Great now the TV's went and I missed the last 2 mintues.
KEEP UP WITH THE GROUP JOHN YOU ARE A TERRIBLE BOY SCOUT.
Haha, when I saw that I was like, THIS IS EXACTLY LIKE THE TIME LAST SEASON WHEN YOU WANDERED OFF AND YOUR CLIENT DIED.
John's worse than a Doctor's Companion for wandering off, honestly.
That is a beautifully creepy moor.
NOTHING CREEPIER THAN THE WOODS AT NIGHT.
NOT. A. DAMN. THING.
HOLY FUCK THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME
ok shat myself
Oooooh Watson can prescribe things? I forget he's a doctor, sometimes.
Dark woods at night, howling, Russell Tovey, It's Being Human all over again
It is! It reminded me of the Doctor Who werewolf episode too.
Haha wait wasn't there something in a tabloid recently about backyard breeders in Britain making superdogs by crossing dobermans with some other kind of reputedly vicious breed to make Killing Machines?
ok im kind of scared now and I don't even live in Britain. Maybe I have just read Hounds of the Baskevilles one to many times, but I would not want to meet one of thses frankenstein dogs on the street.
KEEP IT TOGETHER, HOLMES.
Scared Sherlock you are my NEW FAVOURITE THING.
Yes, you seem fine Sherlock
Sick burn, Watson.
haaaaa Watson you lady killer
THIS IS WHY I HATE SENSOR LIGHTS WHEN THEY GO OFF AT NIGHT AND YOU CAN'T SEE WHAT DID IT YEAH IT'S PROBABLY JUST A RACCOON OR SOMETHING BUT THEN WHAT IF IT ISN'T?
Panic attack with a gun, this can't end well.
THE DOG IS INVISIBLE?
oooh Bad Timing
Hound sounds more dramatic?
omg so hot grab his arm again plz
CRYING
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
OH GOD HE ONLY HAS ONE. ;_;
GREG
THAT'S HIS NAME
sherlock maedz u a koffi
SO SWEET <3 <3 <3
OKAY HERE'S A WILD IDEA ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS HAPPENING:
in ROT13:
GURL HFR N ZNFX GB FPNER CRBCYR NJNL. UNYYHPVABTRAVP TNFFRF RFPNCVAT NG GUNG PERRCL CYNPR ZNXR CRBCYR UNYYHPVANGR NAQ ZNXR GURZ GUVAX GUR ZNFX VF N TVTNAGVP UBHAQ. GUR SBBGCEVAGF NER CYNAGRQ. WHFG N GURBEL, GUBHTU. GUR UNYYHPVABTRAVP TNF GUVAT UNF ORRA QBAR ORSBER, GUBHTU… JR'YY FRR!
1. I love that my ROT13 starts with "GURL"
2. I was right about the gas, fuck yeah.
NOOOO NOT BLUEBELL
Don't feed the monkeys, John.
Yes John sniff the mysterious gas, that's a very sensible thing to do
THE SCURRYING IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE
awwww shit, son
MUTANT BONOBO IS GONNA GET YOU
'It's OK.'
'NO IT'S NOT!'
It was the rabbit all along.
'Why?'
'Why not?'
Good answer
Mind Palace! 🙂
This is like Alphas…
lol elvis
I wondered if this is because it aired on his birthday.
Maggie, great password
Loving Russell Tovey in this episode!
booooom
holy crap on a cracker
omfg sherlock you utter utter bastard
Sherlock, you're kind of a dick.
heeeeeeeeeee poop
Wow, someone's obsessed
wut wus thut
I was so engrossed in that episode I forgot to liveblog at the end
Me, too. I was out for a solid twenty minutes, at least.
Well I think that was better than last week. Mind you, there were only three women in this episode, and they served only to tidy, ferry information, and provide wiles for Watson. 😐
So I called that way back when Sherlock and Henry were first in the Hollow.
Bloody Hell. That was incredible. I'm still literally shaking
I am so confused by that final ending. Where was Moriarty, why was he there, who let him go and why? Honestly at the moment it feels slightly tacked on, like a way to remind us of him or link to the finale, but I thought Sherlock hallucinating Moriarty in the Hollow was enough to keep Moriarty in the story without over doing it.
sounded like mycroft letting him go to me
I thought that too but someone on my Twitter said it wasn't Mycroft. Maybe they were wrong. It being Mycroft makes it extra confusing though. Why on earth would he let Moriarty go?
Surely Mycroft making it extra confusing makes it MORE likely that it was Mycroft, knowing these writers
So I got access *ahem* to the episode and that was Mycroft letting Moriarty go and that just does not make any sense to me at all.
But who was the other guy, the one who opened the door and stood there after Moriarty left?
Yeah, that was strange. It was definitely tacked on to link to the finale, which will clearly be amazing. It was funny because I thought Sherlock hallucinating Moriarty was a brilliant touch but wondered if they really paid Andrew Scott for, like, a half-second of screentime. So it was nice that they used him again in the episode, although even then, it was only a second or two!
They probably shot all of his scenes in a block, across the three episodes.
Okay, that was awesome. Random Comments.
1) Did anybody else expect Sherlock to say "Allons-y, Alonso!" at some point?
2) The subtext this episode…. a lot less sub, a lot more just plain text in my opinion.
3) Does anybody else find this quote from a Benedict Cumberbatch interview extraordinarily scary?
"Will you return for Season 3 of Sherlock?
CUMBERBATCH: You might see that it’s quite hard for me to make it back, after the end of the last episode. "
It makes me feel like this is going to happen…
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And side note, Benedict has been cast as the lead villain in the JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel. -squee!-
I read that Noel Clarke (Mickey in Doctor Who) had been cast in the next Star Trek as well.
Wow, you're right! This movie is going to be sci-fi out the ears….
…what are the bets that Sherlock goes over the waterfall (or maybe the Thames barrier, that would be cool) next Sunday?
Is the Thames barrier the same place where they filmed that Doctor Who Christmas special with Donna?
Went to check out John's blog and Moriarty has updated it with a video but it seems to be stuck on the neverending load of potential regioning 🙁 Link for those in the UK http://johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/16amarch
…holy shit…
That emphasis on the skulls has to mean something, right?
Poor Yorick! Alas, Horatio, I knew him well…
OH SHIT NEW SHERLOCK
TO iPLAYER!!
This episode was simultaneously creepy as hell and had some of the best lines in the series. Russell Tovey was great, so were the adorable bar- men and the hound was genuinely scary (poor doggy though :().
Top three things I loved:
1."Don't do that. The cheekbones and the turning up your collar to look cool." The writers aren't even pretending that they aren't playing with the Watson/Holmes shippers now.
2. Holmes getting rattled by letting pesky emotions like being scared shitless get the better of him and giving an insanely detailed rundown on the couple sitting beside he and Watson to prove that his mind is still as sharp as ever.
Also the rubbish attempts at making things up to John because of the "I haven't got any friends" was adorable.
3. I loved the whole "is it a genetically engineered beasty" or not? I honestly thought that they might have been going with that. The scenes with the "hound" were genuinely frightening – for gods sake people though, why were you stomping all over the moor in the dark where you think a great big beasty is without any weapons (unless they had some I didn't see)?
Please don't use 'insanely' on this site. It's ableist and against the site rules.
Is this an inside joke or something? I've been reading for a while, but this doesn't make sense as a comment.
Read the site rules and I take back my previous question. Given the context of the scene and Sherlock's state of mind in that moment, I disagree that the word is misused and think the response is extreme, but I see from Mark's explanation that it doesn't matter and rules are rules. Fair enough.
And yet, I find it funny that you jumped on this one word here but didn't take issue with the giant spoiler regarding BC returning to the show a few posts above this one. I have a very high tolerance for spoilers and yet was pretty mad about that post. C'est la vie.
I didn't 'jump' on anything. I merely pointed out problematic language which is part of my job as a mod. Politely pointing out a word is not allowed is frequently done on this site and not really all that extreme of an action.
Sometimes mods miss things, that's why there's a report button. If you have an issue with anything in a comment in future just click report and the mods will be notified by email.
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I feel, quite strongly, that this cap needs a caption.
SECONDED
"When gene-splicing experiements with rabbits go wrong…"
XD I lol'd!!
Do you think he's trying to retract his nose so he can do a Voldemort?
at first I thought you posted a picture of a vampire from Buffy…
Hey Henry, here's a bloody idea. DON'T SLEEP NEXT TO A GIGANTIC WINDOW FACING RIGHT OUT ONTO THE CREEPY-ASS MOOR.
Also, John, please to stop walking off on your own… *shiver*
I totally agree that there was way too much glass in that house. Would feel like living in an exhibit, and with no curtains. I bet it's lovely in the daytime, if it's secluded enough to afford privacy on that side; but NO TO LIVING IN A GLASS BOX. Difficult to insulate effectively on that side as well, I imagine. Even with double-glazing.
I did wonder why he was sleeping in his living room rather than his bedroom…
What the hell?!
HAHAHAHA Watson sees Sherlock DRENCHED IN BLOOD and his reaction is, "You went on the Tube like that?"