They're just these fans, you know?
Thanks to assorted parties for kind greetings, and to 
legionseagle for The Ballad of Lady Smallwood, which gives a key character of His Last Vow the extended starring role she deserves.
It occurred to me to share a thought I had the other day, prompted by a conversation about fanfiction between Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss in the extras of the latest Sherlock DVD. For those who haven't heard it, the transcript is as follows, courtesy of the remarkably comprehensive arianedevere:
Steven: We did this as possibly the biggest sustained act of fanfiction, and as a result there's fanfiction about our fanfiction.
Mark: Mm, mm.
Steven: And I do think that's where storytelling comes from.
Mark: It's that lovely thing of generating new content around it. It's the sort of thing that got us into writing.
And later they were talking about Anderson, and how he'd turned into "a sort of de facto fan of Sherlock's", which was one of the many things I loved about the latest series...
And at that moment I suddenly thought "That's it! You're Anderson! He's a fan who makes up stories about Sherlock, and has assumed some sort of official status, and then the fangirls turn round and say 'No, our theories are as good as yours, we're not taking your word for it any more.'" Because that's what fans do.
I can't quite decide whether they knew that when they reinvented Anderson. I think it's possible they're sufficiently self-aware to send themselves up (Russell T. Davies was).
Incidentally, I don't remember ever seeing Steve Thompson in these interviews. Does he really exist, or is he a Bunbury figure they use if they're not sure whether the scripts are up to scratch?
And now for something completely different: my mate Matthew is doing Four Thought tomorrow evening - he's talking about keeping a secular Sabbath.
Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
comments.
legionseagle for The Ballad of Lady Smallwood, which gives a key character of His Last Vow the extended starring role she deserves.
It occurred to me to share a thought I had the other day, prompted by a conversation about fanfiction between Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss in the extras of the latest Sherlock DVD. For those who haven't heard it, the transcript is as follows, courtesy of the remarkably comprehensive arianedevere:
Steven: We did this as possibly the biggest sustained act of fanfiction, and as a result there's fanfiction about our fanfiction.
Mark: Mm, mm.
Steven: And I do think that's where storytelling comes from.
Mark: It's that lovely thing of generating new content around it. It's the sort of thing that got us into writing.
And later they were talking about Anderson, and how he'd turned into "a sort of de facto fan of Sherlock's", which was one of the many things I loved about the latest series...
And at that moment I suddenly thought "That's it! You're Anderson! He's a fan who makes up stories about Sherlock, and has assumed some sort of official status, and then the fangirls turn round and say 'No, our theories are as good as yours, we're not taking your word for it any more.'" Because that's what fans do.
I can't quite decide whether they knew that when they reinvented Anderson. I think it's possible they're sufficiently self-aware to send themselves up (Russell T. Davies was).
Incidentally, I don't remember ever seeing Steve Thompson in these interviews. Does he really exist, or is he a Bunbury figure they use if they're not sure whether the scripts are up to scratch?
And now for something completely different: my mate Matthew is doing Four Thought tomorrow evening - he's talking about keeping a secular Sabbath.
Also posted on Dreamwidth, with
comments.