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I could have died if I had any more cough syrup with codeine, but that's a story for another time ...
I also want to just say how much I enjoy seeing
Isn't he great? Actually they didn't want to let him do it but allowed him to the casting and he passed.
Someone else posted it before I could. If you can do listen to the interview because they only transcribed a portion of it.
It was a lovely interview. Gives a lot of insight to what the team tried to bring to us in series three, and teases what is coming in series four without saying anything about it at the same time. Whenever I listen to Moffat and Gatiss talk, I feel amongst my fellow kin. Three brilliant men, (can't forget Thompson) who have brilliant passion and understanding for these characters. They have a lot to be proud of. It's amazing to realize that this series grew out of little conversations on a train, and has grown into one of the biggest phenomenas of the current day.
Oh, and today I was organizing the scientific journals of the library at my work (long story) and I found a Clinical Medicine issue with a cover article named "Sherlock Holmes Revalidated". It's a really interesting paper! Ended up looking for Doyle's scientific publications (since the paper quoted him) and found a couple of comments he published at Lancet, one about gout (wonder if what he found was actually an epigenetic effect, I'll keep that information in mind) and the other relating opthalmology about a case (criminal) he was helping with.
No, he isn't meant to be autistic. I don't remember the authors ever talking about this but Watson did say something like that when he was really angry at Sherlock in Hound, but he wasn't making a diagnosis. The fact that he can read people so well is also indicative of that he hasn't an autism spectrum disorder. The thing with Sherlock is that he simply shuts himself away from emotions so that he can reason more analytically and not be influenced by external factors.
@Sandy, I love that you found Doyle in your scientific journals! That is cool. It it always interesting to me to read about him as a person. He was so fully active in many things, not just writing.
I love His Last Vow. I'll be buying the series, of course; but I'm happy to have been able to watch it a few times now. The only thing that has thrown me so far really is
By the way, does anyone think
Mycroft knows everything.
That video is just brilliant @thelivingroyale! Thanks for sharing it. Regarding what you said about autism I did find one paper of a researcher who claims that Mycroft Holmes is the first description of an Asperger patient and, since he shared several personality traits with his younger brother in addition to genetic, Sherlock Holmes must have also been an Asperger patient. However, although I'm not a psychologist or psychiatrist, I find this line of thought flawed. On the one hand, no one so far was able to prove a genetic background for autism or related disorders. On the other hand people in this spectrum usually have difficulty in "reading" other people. Sherlock is perfectly fine in reading people, especially when he has some interest in them. He ignores people's feelings most frequently, but that's a completely different matter. He does have Asperger features, however that doesn't make him Asperger or autistic himself. Bipolar? Most certainly. High functioning sociopath? I think he exaggerated his self-diagnosis but it's a little bit closer than autistic in my opinion.
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I think Brady meant there is nothing non-canonical in their behaviour. In that sense I agree, they are precisely the same characters behaving in the exact same way except in a different time.
As for John and Mary having a kid, I have no issue with it and find it interesting. It gives the writers a chance to explore what John's life would mean if there was yet another thing in the way of the "adventures" that he can never kick. Throw in his still present hurt over Mary's lies who is bearing his child, and it could be very interesting.
"He missed and was making the best of a bad job" :))
Priceless =))
Well, then you are very wrong, as there are instances in the books of those three things ;)
If you want something 100% faithful to the original characters then just read the books. It's pretty clear that the show is a new take on it, otherwise it wouldn't be set in the modern day.
Also, as Bond fans, can we really complain about "non-canonical" behaviour? The majority of the films are nothing like Fleming's books but we still enjoy them.
As for John and Mary´s baby, I must admit it gives a slight feeling of The Incredibles. The Mary in the tv show doesn´t allow being hidden in a household or other job. And yet, the writers of this show did such a terrific job in fooling everybody so far that I can´t really worry.