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thoughts on mycroft holmes? 💗 wait have you heard of him or

omg mycroft holmes? who cares about his little brother so much but is so bad at adequately conveying that? who had a man carted off to an empty warehouse for the most intimidating "break his heart and i'll do worse than kill you" speech anyone's ever seen and then asked if marriage was on the table when the man so much as looked at moving into a flat with his brother? who absolutely royally fucked up and got himself into a situation he can't get out of with a criminal mastermind and forced his brother into having to fake his own death and even after all that he can't bring himself to actually discuss any of this with him, let alone ask forgiveness, because he can't handle a broken heart? mycroft holmes as portrayed by co-writer and -producer mark gatiss in the award-winning show which has aired from 2010 to 2017? who may or may not have put jim's face on every tv screen in the country to save his brother from actually being sent to his certain death? who has an office that's all concrete and mirrors and global domination under whitehall and who is definitely the smart one but can he help it if he loathes legwork (but he'll still suffer it for the sake of saving his brother, if needed)? who sat at his desk with his feet propped up and twirled a pen in his hand and said "i love a good acronym, all the best secret societies have one"? you know i'm not sure i have heard of him could you maybe elabor—

Romancing the Text: Jeremy Brett, Paper, and Sherlock Holmes

It’s late, this week is still terrible, and I’ve got some time to consider a question that has been much on my mind of late: why is it that I love watching Jeremy Brett handle paper? I’m taking it up now partly because it was always my intention, after finishing the rewatch, to write up a post about why Jeremy Brett was the definitive 20th century Sherlock Holmes. But every time I start such a post, I think, oh what’s the point, it’s all already been said, by myself even, and anyway there’s too much. I’ve formulated a hypothesis, though, which is that if I can explain why Brett’s interaction with paper is so important to my enjoyment of this show, I will probably in the process be demonstrating what it was that made his Sherlock Holmes so unique and indelible. So follow me, friends, while I unfold my crackpot theories about the romance of the material text and how it binds us to the Master Paper-Handler.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - The Cardboard Box

hi i just scrolled thru your entire blog all the way to the beginning. all the way down to a sketch of a horse and posts when s4 first aired. exemplary blog i couldn’t put it down. excellent blogging bestie 💗

aaaah thank u!! I really thought I was doing something with that horse sketch lol

if sherlock can repress the memory of eurus existing so can I

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!

How can I succinctly convince people coming out of the woodwork that yes S4 is “bad” but it’s Good actually. But not in the way people think i mean that. It’s not so bad it’s good. It’s for real actually good but only because it’s “bad” not because it’s actually Bad. Only real ones know.

Been lurking too long

*climbs out of a trash bin with a tinfoil deerstalker askew atop my head* okay but listen how did Moriarty know to tell Eurus that Molly was in love with Sherlock when the entire Reichenbach Fall stunt explicitly relied on Moriarty completely and utterly underestimating her role in Sherlock’s life

BBC Sherlock Super-High-Quality Production Pictures by Arwel (x) - 221B S3 set - Note the speaker dock on the table, which Sherlock uses to play the Watson waltz on.