Honestly Tjlc ASIDE This Show Is Just Such A Master Class In Subtlety And Misdirection…sherlock Is

Doctor Who Advent Calendar —Day 18

― E.M. Forster, Howards End

[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]

Eurus: Sherlock bro lemme be a pirate

Sherlock's bestie: na m8 u smell

Eurus:...

Eurus: Reet

Eurus: Hope u like wells m8

221b wall coming down on the street U will always be verfremdungseffekt famous

Sherlock Holmes returning after the hiatus and being faced with the excruciating reality that his friends did grieve for him.

With Watson looking 10 years older and Mrs Hudson sitting him down and telling him very sternly that she will not have any of this selfish nonsense ever again, and Lestrade being amazed at his return but also clearly hurt and alienated.

And Holmes having to come to terms with that. To realise that what he thought of as a heroic self-sacrifice actually was a cruel and desperate act. And then realising that he did everyone an injustice for not acknowledging the true depth of their affection - simply because he never learned to like himself very much. Having to find a way to apologise and repent, and, when they allow him a second chance, allowing himself a second chance too.

they need to invent a summer that isnt warm. i yearn for antarctica

Also I found this picture of Watson (Edward Hardwicke) holding a gun like that with that look on his face and it is one of the most perfect Doctor Watson images ever produced.

He looks like Sherlock Holmes either asked to borrow the gun, or just handed it to him and hasn't acknowledged that it's a loaded gun.

You do NOT want to miss this!! The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

Podcast going *in depth* on the Jeremy Brett / Edward Hardwicke stage play!!! 🎉

They've cleaned up the audio you may have heard before (on YouTube )

They describe the visuals that have been lost to time from crew interviews

They've included snippets of the crew telling backstage stories!

It was practically like being there!!

I know because I was lucky enough to actually see the play.

Part II is just commentary and is linked from this one

UPDATE: @ninasnakie asked if this was AI. I'm not sure if that means the whole play, but the the short answer is that if it was faked, it would have had better sound.

The recordings of the play (the best of which is on YouTube) were made by fans who snuck in their tape recorders, and the sound quality is pretty terrible.

So the podcaster (a reputable pro with a fantastic podcast - The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast) used multiple copies to combine and cleaned it up manually and mentions in the second part that he did use AI to help clean it up, so you can make out what they're saying, and they have a really good discussion about that.

They didn't include all of the play audio, just key / most scenes and used crew interviews and descriptions / summaries in between. Even some of the key scenes are extremely difficult to hear even at maximum volume. I'm sure that a lot was completely useless.

I hope this helps!

It’s okay. It’s not okay. No, but it is what it is.

–The Lying Detective (2017)