It Was Practically Like Being There!!

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Mr. Inspiration can I draw something different?

NO

;)

Lily: Did it hurt?

James: Did what hurt?

Lily: When you fell walking in. I saw you fall on your face. Everyone saw.

The Doctor ans Rose watching the sunrise

- inspired by ‚Sunrise in Orbit‘ by Astronaut Alexei Leonov -

Does Rose remember that she saw Ten on New Years? I like to think that she does, because it adds another layer to their dynamic.

Imagine: the Doctor just regenerated, he looks totally different and Rose had no idea what’s going on. He looks completely different, and yet she can’t help thinking that there’s something familiar about it. At some point she’ll remember: New Years Day, a stranger standing alone in the snow, asking her what year it is, then telling her she’s going to have a great year. It’s him. It has to be. He looks identical, even has the same coat. And who else would need to ask what year it is? She’ll never know why, but it’ll always be a thought, in the back of her mind, that no matter what he’ll end up there someday. Alone. Standing in the snow. Going back in time to tell her that she’s going to have a great year.

Holmes and Watson are two men who have a pathological need to be in everyone else’s business at all time. Very sweet that they found each other.

Can I Be of Assistance? BBC Sherlock and The Secret of Sherlock Holmes

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes was a play written by Jeremy Paul, who also wrote several episodes of the Granada series. Paul and Jeremy Brett, who had been friends for two decades before this play was produced, would often talk about Sherlock Holmes and his origins. During one of these discussions, Brett commissioned this play from Paul; it contains many of Brett’s own theories about the character so many people identified with him. The play was meant to be a one-off, starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke in their famous roles, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of A Study in Scarlet. However, it was met with such enthusiasm that it ended up running for a full year (1988/1989), rather to the detriment of Brett’s health.

As a refresher, the Granada series ran from 1984 to 1995. The first season ended with The Final Problem, and the second ended with The Bruce–Partington Plans (episodes did not follow the order of Watson’s writings or any chronological order of occurrence). The play ran between the second and third seasons.

There will be lots of spoilers below the cut, so if you’d like to experience the play before reading, please click here for an audio recording of the original performance in two parts. Unfortunately, the play was never filmed. Also unfortunately, the audio becomes very poor around 19:20 in the second audio link. I promise it never gets loud again after that (except an exclamation or two by Jeremy Brett, of course!), so feel free to turn up your volume.

Before I read The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, I expected it to be entirely in keeping with the Granada series. It’s not. The series and the play differ in tone and content. There are no cases, and Holmes and Watson are the only characters. Stories that had already been adapted in Granada turn up in the play in different forms, but only to serve their relationship. The play adapts the subtext of the stories, rather than the text, which is something Granada rarely did, and mainly in the later episodes, like The Eligible Bachelor.

In the context of Sherlock, this means that The Secret of Sherlock Holmes is a greater source than the Granada series was, because the play was original in ways that the series wasn’t (perils of being faithful to the surface narratives of the stories). I’m going to talk about how the play adapted the Doyle stories, and how those choices are reflected in Sherlock, because as we know, “Everything is canon”.

The play develops the Holmes and Watson relationship from the time they meet and move in together, until some time after Holmes returns to Watson after faking his death in the Reichenbach. Along the way, they each address the audience to tell us secrets they keep from each other; the action (so to speak) culminates in a discussion of Moriarty’s role in their lives. 

Love, loss, lies, and John Watson being pretty damned smart, under the cut.

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