Y’ALL SHERLOCK IS BACK. EVERYONE. IT IS BACK. In celebration of the glorious first day of 2012, those of us who have access to the first episode of series two of Sherlock will liveblog the hell out of the episode because you cannot stop me. LET’S DO IT!
oh god how are we going to survive this night SEND HELP
Now, this liveblog is going to be different for everyone, since it’s not airing officially in the United States on January 1st. Like all liveblogs with relative airings, this liveblog starts when you have access to “A Scandal in Belgravia.” 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.
Um, I cannot officially link to any possible source of this episode here in the main blog, but it might appear in the comments. I DON’T KNOW. IT MIGHT. I’M JUST SAYING.
oh god i am so excited OH MY GOD.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love you.
NO I LOVE YOU.
YOU
YOOOOOOUUUUU
SO EXCITE!
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What if I got series 1 on sale the other week and plan to rewatch episodes 1 and 3 with commentary today in preparation for tonight?
Belgravia, Mark, not Bulgaria! 😀
But anyway, SO EXCITE!!!!
Oh, and by the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 *hugs all around*
"Bulgaria"
*Chuckles*
Life insists on amusing me, even when it's raining.
HAPPY 2012 TO YOU TOO!
Well, Belgravia, Bohemia, Bulgaria…
Close enough? XD
Blogger aria, booger malaria, Bludger hysteria, bulgur wheat area…
…y'know, I'm not entirely certain I'm not still the tiniest bit drunk.
Well, except for the fact that Bulgaria and Bohemia (well, Czech Republic now) are countries, whereas Belgravia is a district in London. 😉 So yeah, not quite the same. 😉
I've totally been misreading Belgravia as Borogravia, one of the countries in Monstrous Regiment. >___>
OH GOD ME TOO.
All these words beginning in B, ending in a… >_>
SO EXCITED.
BBC keeps showing slightly different previews as if to taunt us all 'IT'S TODAY. BUT NOT YET MUAHAHAHA.'
Man, I'm not even dressed yet. Oh, New Year's.
IT'S TODAY? WHAT? WHAT?
WAIT WAIT WAIT I JUST REALIZED I HAVE A BRITISH TV BBC I AM ASSUMING WHAT TIME IS IT ON?
*texting people to cancel day's plans*
*don't worry, I didn't have any plans*
*maybe do laundry*
*but maybe not*
ETA: TEN PAST EIGHT OKAY I HAVE TIME TO PREPARE.
*NEVER PREPARED*
LET'S DO THIS THING.
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The GIF of Mycroft giving a LOOK is brilliant. 😀
And the dancing Kawaii Sherlock and John are… well… kawaii. <3 <3 <3 😀
EXCITED!!!
CANNOT EVEN HANDLE THE EXCITEMENT OF THIS DAY.
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OMG THIS IS AMAZING
Can Sherlockalypse be a Thing? Pretty sure Tumblr is going to keel over and expire.
It's not New Year's Day, it's New Sherlock Day!
So does this mean Buffy 2.03 review will not go up till tomorrow? (because, WHAT AN EPISODE to be the first one of the New Year)!
And why is Hollywood even bothering with making Sherlock movies now? All they do is waste badass actors (Noomi Rapace this time), and after Cumberbatch+Freeman everyone else is superfluous and inferior.
I don't know what the plans are for tomorrow, but today is Sunday so there's no review due. I think Mark will stick to one review per weekday and add the liveblogs+reviews as extras (as he did with Doctor Who). After all, there are only three Sherlock episodes.
There are no posts on Mark Watches or Mark Reads tomorrow, as I'm taking a personal holiday to finish the first Harry Potter ebook and because…well, I just need a day off, frankly. :/
And you are perfectly entitled to it, of course! *hugs*
P.S.: Are you still looking for the HP ebook covers?
No worries, enjoy your holiday and a happy New Year to you 🙂
WAIT WHAT HOW IS IT AIRING NOW I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR OR SOMETHING NO I'M NOT PREPARED NOOOOOOOOOOO
It's airing today in the UK. Those of us from elsewhere have to wait (the US airdate is in May), unless we can somehow find a way to transport our consciousnesses to Britain on the astral plane. If only there were some technology to help with that… 😉
I KNEW IT WAS COMING AND I AM STILL SO UNPREPARED, EGADS!
I'm stuck (well, happily stuck) in a location where the internet connection cannot handle any sort of massive downloading activity. YOU ARE ALL SUCH AWFUL TEASES.
SOMEONE HELP RABBITAPE.
I don't believe it will exist online until it airs on BBC proper.
Do you have enough internet to livestream? If you do I recommend searching Sherlock livestream on tumblr as there are plenty of links there. (although I don't know what the quality or anything like that is)
I've recently discovered ExpatShield, which is wonderful for the technologically illiterate such as myself (so bad that I misspelled 'illiterate' the first two times) and Sherlock will be the first proper thing I watch on BBC iPlayer. Yay!
TWO HOURS.
totally in, never been able to make a loveblog before! Can't wait
Appropriate typo is appropriate. <3
LOVEBLOG
LET'S ALL LOVEBLOG SHERLOCK
<3<3<3<3<3
LOVEBLHUGS. ALL THE LOVEBLHUGS.
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ha whoops!
Love is blooming in my pants. Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate in the liveblog because a) my computer and my TV are nowhere near each other *shakes fist* and b) I can't talk and walk at the same time, never mind watch and type. But I am so excited all the same! IT'S BEEN 18 MONTHS.
FIFTEEN MINUTES!
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I don't think my life was complete until I saw Brian Blessed flailing. x-D
OKAY SO WHO IS USING EXPAT SHIELD WHO IS WILLING TO OPEN A LIVESTREAM ROOM?
I'm in a livestream for BBC1 and am getting really into whatever show this is before Sherlock. Anybody else being drawn into David's sorrow over his mother's imminent death?
It's the soap Eastenders if you're curious.
Yep same here. I jave no idea who these people are but I'm really sad and crying.
That just about broke me and IDEK who they are.
IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!
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OMG YOU USED A NEWSIES GIF.
…that is all.
Nearly started. I'm so glad i get to this liveblog. I couldn't do the Doctor who Christmas Special (I still haven't watched it 🙁 ) because I had to do family dinners. Damn family taking me away from meaningful time with the tv and the internet.
*high pitch noises*
KJGKLSDJGKDHLGHSJKGHL
FUCKIN' BEEGEES.
My god. Staying Alive.
MAMMA MORIARTY THIS IS A BAD TIME.
I love you Moriarty.
(Also, totally re-watched Garrow's Law S2E2 to get ready for more Andrew Scott.)
Ms. Adler?
Awesome but don't take away from the glorious gay subtext please.
NEW IMAGES IN TITLE SEQUENCE!
I really love the Sherlock credits and music. Can't wait for the soundtrack.
Watson liveblogs, too.
God I hope they've restarted up John and Sherlock's sites again.
They didn't Sherlock's site, but they did John's blog! 🙂
WHERE IS EVERYONE ELSE I FEEL ALL NAKED AND EXPOSED IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.
IS THIS LIKE WHERE WE AGREE WE ALL JUMP ON THREE BUT THEN I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO GOES AND EVERYONE ELSE IS JUST STANDING ON THE DOCK LAUGHING BECAUSE I GOT ENOUGH OF THAT AT SUMMER CAMP.
OKAY REFRESH KEY IS MY FRIEND.
Last Activity is the best to use.
The Internet has a cameo. Moffat just KNOWS.
Oh my god is that the deerstalker! *can't stop laughing*
Syndicate head is a kinky fangirl from Tumblr.
Fuch Yeah The Hat! The Pipe!
Hello bedsheet!Sherlock
John Watson was in Dublin and no one informed me!?!
Actually it was New Zealand.
I blame family making noises for mishearing.
No, I heard Dublin too!
His blog said he was in New Zealand at some stage but that was before he broke up with Sarah so seems like some time has passed since then.
(Yeah… I have spent way too much time this evening re-reading Watson's blogs. And Molly's blog. And even Connie Price's message board!)
Maybe there's a Dublin in New Zealand? I know there's a few in America.
(I spent some time reading all the updates on John's blog yesterday as well. I love it so much.)
He could have been to both? It seems like he goes away a good bit, just Sherlock doesn't notice.
I think we should write a strongly worded letter: we should be informed in advance of any future visits to Dublin!
That's so breaking the fourth wall, since Martin Freeman is filming the Hobbit down there… 😀
'There's a mute button and I will use it.'
Helecopter? Must be Mycroft.
NO PANTS OH MY GOD THEY ARE TWELVE.
Oh I love them and their giggling.
Thank you Mycroft.
Irene Adler…a dominatrix.
Irene Adler is a kinky fangirl who likes Sherlock in a bedsheet.
I don't remember Irene Adler being a prostitute in the books. Was she?
She was mistress to foreign royalty in possession of compromising photographs.
So… pretty close to canon, really.
I see. In that case I'd say this is a great way of modernizing it. The episode doesn't really shame her for it.
*Nods*
I'll have to watch it again to fight past the white noise of fangirl squeaking, but I'm tentatively positive on the gender issues here. It's always going to be shaky when shows written and directed by men go for sensitive topics, but there was no real judgement attached to her profession at all – they seem to have accepted it gracefully and gone on to things more important to the plot. Her nude scene was far more about her exploiting Sherlock's issues to defend what she knew than shaming her openness, as far as I could tell. I'll be interested to see what other people think, though.
Same here. Even the fact that she loved Sherlock being the reason she was caught out in the end didn't bother me despite the whole risk of weak women and their emotions problems (for want of a better turn of phrase) because, well, Sherlock loved her too and made some serious mistakes because of it as well. (Granted I really need to rewatch before setting my opinion as well)
*Nods* I mean, the password she chose was, for most of the time, a way to rub it in his face – more a way of boasting than a desperate romantic gesture. (Something I would have a problem with.) Yes, he guessed it, but in a contest of intelligence, fair enough.
And also fair enough that he noticed her attraction – physical cues exist, even for someone like Sherlock, who has some trouble with emotional connection. (I do think she was attracted to him and him to her, as although she seemed far more interested in women, as a general rule – she might have lied to John, sure, but a major point from the books was that she also kept the photographs because she was genuinely fond of the client in question; and in this version, said client was female – their whole relationship is always about finding someone who can compete with them on the same level as they operate, and finally being equal to someone.)
I just… aaaaugh. Too much wine for in-depth discussion! But yes. I love their connection. Even though I will ship Sherlock/John till I die, I love the Sherlock/Irene mental… getting each other.
Just to be clear; a dominatrix is not a prostitute; they are very different professions.
I don't think she was any kind of professional sex worker – she was an actress, who happened to have an affair with a member of royalty.
I think making her a prostitute/dominatrix was an interesting extrapolation on that – since nowadays extramarital affairs aren't that big of a deal as they were in the Victorian times. And, also, the real reason why her phone (the equivalent of the photo in the book) was so important, were not only the compromising photos, but all sorts of sensitive information she had on it.
Haha, Sherlock stole John an ashtray.
Calling it an ashtray of love!
I need that green outfit in my life.
there will be a thousand .gifs of him whipping off that scarf by tomorrow morning
Seriously Sherlock you want the trained solider to hit you?
YESSSS, I loved that they called back to that. Do NOT underestimate John, people.
Even if you're his bestie.
'I could cut myself slapping that face'
GOD DAMN IT IRENE IS A BLANK SLATE
'Brainy's the new sexy' Trufax
Oh, green screen to the crime scene, how Criminal Minds.
'Looking takes ages, I'm just going to find them.'
omg yes slow motion badassery
Badassery is always welcome.
HEY THEY ARE JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS
'We should call the police' *fires gun* 'On their way'
Death by boomerang?
Oh hey, Sherlock's room for the first time.
Love you Mrs Hudson.
OH MY GOD THAT IS AN ACTUAL TWITTER ACCOUNT.
I didn't catch the name. Can you give me a link?
I just checked @thewhiphand. Maybe Irene's has underscores or something, I don't know, but @thewhiphand was only begun an hour ago, so…
Thanks 🙂 I only heard 'hand' in the episode because people were making noise here.
Steven Moffat follows her, so I'm guessing it's the "official" one 🙂
And it's jumped from 40 followers (just moments after its on-screen mention) to close to 3000, now.
I WANT TO SPEND CHRISTMAS AT 221B BAKER STREET. ;__;
Yay for violin! And John's fabulous jumper.
MOLLYYYYYYYYYYY!
Ouch, poor Molly.
Oh Sherlock, too far.
An apology? CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.
Noooooo. Don't kill Irene off.
sweet jesus irene what no the fuck is this
Calling it now that can't be the real Irene, they just can't have killed her.
But we know Sherlock cares. He just doesn't care for everyone.
Ooh, Sherlock and addiction.
Haha Sherlock has a sock index.
Which makes me curious as to how he indexes them. Colour, comfort, age, length? All of the above?
Comfort is too subjective for him. Fabric type is my guess. All 230 types.
Sorry John but everyone can tell.
DRUGS.
DOOM, WATSON. DOOM.
HOLY SHIT
Mycroft's methods of communication have clearly wrecked John's strange cars are dangerous instinct.
I'm quite glad she's alive.
OMG Suspense, Irene you are a naughty girl.
I said everyone could tell.
NOOOOOO MRS HUDSON
Noooooooo Not Mrs Hudson!
SNAP
THEY BETTER NOT HAVE HURT MRS. HUDSON. NOOOOOO.
MRS HUDSON D: D: D:
Deck him Sherlock.
And he did 😀
MRS HUDSON IS THE ONLY WOMAN SHERLOCK LOVES. HURT HER AND DIE.
Aww, he does care
Holy Shit Sherlock
'He fell out of a window'
loooooooooooooooool dumped him out a window
multiple times
"That was right on my bins!" MRS. HUDSON NEVER CHANGE.
OH MAN. I heard "That was right on my Benz"
It didn't make any sense and I spent some time trying to figure it out. Sometimes I am perplexed by the cultural differences between the US and the UK
She snuck it out. Mrs. Hudson is a total badass.
omg they are the cutest family ever
england WOULD fall
Aw I'm loving how they're adding to the Sherlock, Mrs Hudson relationship.
Love you Irene and your continuing ability to outsmart Sherlock.
God I love you Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch must have a hard time memorizing those lines.
It's James Bond on that flight.