![]() ![]() ![]() Grand Poobah of Quirky Protagonists Steven Moffat made the British Christmas Special his signature after taking over DOCTOR WHO, and decided to treat his children equally by giving SHERLOCK one of its own. It’s required viewing for any aspiring filmmaker from writers to cinematographers, and if you haven’t seen it, stop reading this and go watch the pilot.Ī clarification: Watch the pilot. King of Tumblr Steven Moffat’s adaptation of the British classic pushes the limits of what’s possible on the small screen and surpasses many feature films in complexity and cinematic finesse. But I would be the first person to concede that's totally up for debate.Let’s establish something up front: SHERLOCK is a goddamned masterpiece. I think for the sake of my sanity (and further speculation / pathetic attempts at deduction), I will decide that the modern world is the "real" one and the Victorian world is the dream / mind palace setting. ![]() Have the boys lived in Victorian London all the time and "reality" is what happened in the Doyle stories (or rather, "reality" is the basis on which Dr Watson wrote his stories for the strand), while the series set in modern times that we love is just one long and possibly drug-addled speculation on Holmes' part about what the future will be like and how he and the people he knows could live in it? Or does the "real" action take place in our century and the Victorian bits were just Sherlock's mind palace on cocaine (with mind palaces and hallucinations inside the mind palace and hallucinations)? Is Moriarty alive? Was he ever alive? Is he just a figment of Sherlock Holmes' imagination, a part of his own psyche and thus immortal as long as the hero lives? Will we ever find out? ![]()
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