On cheekbones, slash and Latin plurals
Right, it's gone two in the morning, but I don't want to sleep on this for fear of forgetting stuff, so here's as much as I can remember from the Sherlock Q&A.
* Dancing on the legendary train journeys from London to Cardiff - sadly not literal.
* It is a love story, just that Sherlock's downstairs brain is wired directly into his upstairs one, says Moff. Series four, says Gatiss in an aside.
* Fandom may by all means think whatever filthy thoughts it likes, however. ;D
* Why the coat? "Have you been to Cardiff in January?" More seriously, mention of the instantly recognisable silhouette and some angsting over whether Sherlock should have been wearing it at the pool.
* Moff had a bit of a panic a few weeks before the first of the new DW's went out, in case he was set to destroy two of the best loved fictional characters in history in one year. If he messed up that and Sherlock, he'd just need to 'shoot Daniel Craig in the face' and 'delete the Beatles', and he'd have irradicated popular culture.
* Martin has 'funny bones'. Quite often there will have been a line written for him, and he just tells them he can convey it better with a look - and does, but mostly 'they do what they're told'.
* Discussing how Sherlock and John's first meeting was slightly like Benedict and Martin's, in that they bring out the best in each other - because before Benedict was a sociopath, and Martin was a dead man walking. I ♥ Mark!
* On Jim - the only way to make the figure of Moriarty truly frightening again was to make him 'so changeable', the kind of man who "could shoot a baby in the face and expect its mother to laugh", says Moff. "Opening of S2," says Gatiss with considerable glee.
* Much discussion of wallpaper, which appears to have become an in-joke for all of them.
* Moff mentioning his Twitter pic of the four best cheekbones in the world and him, being like a big caterpillar or some such.
* The interviewer mentioned the 'internet forums', to which Mark's immediate response was 'fora'. I ♥ Mark!
There was so much more, but much of it was ground previously covered in other interviews or on the commentaries, but it was a great night all round, and the pre-show meet-up was lovely. It's a brilliant fandom and such fun to be some tiny part of, especially on a night like that.
And so to bed. Yes, BED - a real one, not the floor. I am in a Travelodge, and it has never been so appealing!
* Dancing on the legendary train journeys from London to Cardiff - sadly not literal.
* It is a love story, just that Sherlock's downstairs brain is wired directly into his upstairs one, says Moff. Series four, says Gatiss in an aside.
* Fandom may by all means think whatever filthy thoughts it likes, however. ;D
* Why the coat? "Have you been to Cardiff in January?" More seriously, mention of the instantly recognisable silhouette and some angsting over whether Sherlock should have been wearing it at the pool.
* Moff had a bit of a panic a few weeks before the first of the new DW's went out, in case he was set to destroy two of the best loved fictional characters in history in one year. If he messed up that and Sherlock, he'd just need to 'shoot Daniel Craig in the face' and 'delete the Beatles', and he'd have irradicated popular culture.
* Martin has 'funny bones'. Quite often there will have been a line written for him, and he just tells them he can convey it better with a look - and does, but mostly 'they do what they're told'.
* Discussing how Sherlock and John's first meeting was slightly like Benedict and Martin's, in that they bring out the best in each other - because before Benedict was a sociopath, and Martin was a dead man walking. I ♥ Mark!
* On Jim - the only way to make the figure of Moriarty truly frightening again was to make him 'so changeable', the kind of man who "could shoot a baby in the face and expect its mother to laugh", says Moff. "Opening of S2," says Gatiss with considerable glee.
* Much discussion of wallpaper, which appears to have become an in-joke for all of them.
* Moff mentioning his Twitter pic of the four best cheekbones in the world and him, being like a big caterpillar or some such.
* The interviewer mentioned the 'internet forums', to which Mark's immediate response was 'fora'. I ♥ Mark!
There was so much more, but much of it was ground previously covered in other interviews or on the commentaries, but it was a great night all round, and the pre-show meet-up was lovely. It's a brilliant fandom and such fun to be some tiny part of, especially on a night like that.
And so to bed. Yes, BED - a real one, not the floor. I am in a Travelodge, and it has never been so appealing!