Now Matt Goss follows her on Twitter and she’s still giddy about it. In her teens, she was a committed Brosette. He gives them a wave and canters off towards the door of 221B fake Baker Street as fans strain to keep sight of him until he’s inside.Īmanda Abbington, who plays Mary Watson, marvels at their dedication: “I’ve never spoken about Sherlock without at some point talking about the fandom,” she says.
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Every eye in the now noisy crowd fixes on it as out steps Benedict Cumberbatch in full costume. Laurence tells me: “In the group I’m in in France we have people of all ages but everybody loves Sherlock on the BBC because it’s faithful to the original but there’s a twist to it, so it’s not something we’ve seen before.” She smiles but her eyes suddenly focus on a black saloon pulling up behind me.
Her crowd neighbour is from Italy, and also flies home tomorrow. She has flown in for the day in the hope of seeing the cast and will stay all night, flying home in the morning. Sherlock detectives will deduce a possible significance from this being the only one of the 13 episodes to use an original title without any alteration.īut even if the worst were to happen, fans of this super-intelligent and hyper-entertaining show – which reached new heights of action and emotion in The Six Thatchers – will note that Conan Doyle, after his Final Problem, had to bring the character back by popular demand.Laurence, 23, from Paris is wearing a deerstalker and is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society in France.
Ominously, the last episode in this run, which airs on 15 January, is called The Final Problem – the name of the Conan Doyle story in which Holmes dies. Moffat and Gatiss told the same press conference that they were unsure if the remaining cast could be united for future series. But soon afterwards, it emerged that the context was uncanny: the actors had actually separated shortly before filming. It’s unclear how Gatiss specified the sound in the script but, for King Lear, it was written as the hardest line in theatre: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”ĭuring a Q&A session after a premiere screening on 19 December, Freeman and Abbington discussed the weirdness of a real-life couple acting the tragic end of a relationship. And with Mary taking a bullet meant for Sherlock, Martin Freeman’s Watson let out an extended, escalating, animalistic moan. And thanks to the dramatic impact achieved by director Rachel Talalay, the murder of Mary matched the death of M in Skyfall.Ĭonfronted with a dead friend, her widower and their motherless baby, Cumberbatch’s face (mainly required to remain blank) painted a picture of pain and confusion. The episode felt very Bond overall – Holmes has never done so much running towards or away from explosions. A new sub-plot involving the historical decisions of a villainous woman in Whitehall also logically seemed to lead to Thatcher, but the script again opted to give the BBC press office a quiet holiday. In one respect, Gatiss has even depoliticised the original, which is filled with references to immigrants and refugees, “the outcasts of Europe”. But the point, as Sherlock immediately realises, is that the vandal has no political motivation: he’s looking for something hidden inside a head. Here, the French emperor’s replacement with the former British prime minister has led to some muttering about the BBC’s supposed leftwing bias. The Arthur Conan Doyle story on which Gatiss based his script has busts of Napoleon being smashed by an intruder. But although the franchises have to some extent overlapped, both tending towards tragicomic love stories, viewers knew that as Amanda Abbington lay slain on the floor she would not shimmeringly regenerate into another actor. Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss also work on Doctor Who, which was awarded the other prime seasonal slot on the BBC on Christmas Day.
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