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Gatiss: Faked death enrages Watson
Sherlock star and co-writer Mark Gatiss has revealed Dr Watson may not be pleased to see Sherlock, when he returns from the dead in the new series.
The last cliff-hanger episode of the hit TV show saw Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and nemesis Moriarty plunge to their apparent death from the roof of St Bart's hospital in London.
Gatiss revealed that, as in Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story 'The Adventure Of The Empty House', Sherlock will surprise his friend Watson, played by Martin Freeman, when he reveals he faked his death. And Watson won't be quite as understanding as he was in the original story.
Gatiss said: "There's certain things about 'The Adventure Of The Empty House' which feel set in stone because that's how Sherlock comes back, but at the same time we feel free to invent and to introduce new stuff to it.
"I always found it a little unlikely that Dr Watson's only reaction was to faint for instance - as supposed to possibly a stream of terrible swear words."
The League Of Gentleman star revealed he and co-creator Steven Moffat take a "magpie approach" when sourcing material for the TV series from among the original 56 short stories and four novels when writing the show.
He said: "Everybody has their favourites, Steven and I have our all-time favourites, but it's really a question of what will fit into the structure. We're sort of guided by our idea for the overall feel of the next three stories."
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Personally, I would really like for John to punch Sherlock. Just once. One good, solid punch and then start to move on from there.
Gatiss: Faked death enrages Watson
Sherlock star and co-writer Mark Gatiss has revealed Dr Watson may not be pleased to see Sherlock, when he returns from the dead in the new series.
The last cliff-hanger episode of the hit TV show saw Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and nemesis Moriarty plunge to their apparent death from the roof of St Bart's hospital in London.
Gatiss revealed that, as in Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story 'The Adventure Of The Empty House', Sherlock will surprise his friend Watson, played by Martin Freeman, when he reveals he faked his death. And Watson won't be quite as understanding as he was in the original story.
Gatiss said: "There's certain things about 'The Adventure Of The Empty House' which feel set in stone because that's how Sherlock comes back, but at the same time we feel free to invent and to introduce new stuff to it.
"I always found it a little unlikely that Dr Watson's only reaction was to faint for instance - as supposed to possibly a stream of terrible swear words."
The League Of Gentleman star revealed he and co-creator Steven Moffat take a "magpie approach" when sourcing material for the TV series from among the original 56 short stories and four novels when writing the show.
He said: "Everybody has their favourites, Steven and I have our all-time favourites, but it's really a question of what will fit into the structure. We're sort of guided by our idea for the overall feel of the next three stories."
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Personally, I would really like for John to punch Sherlock. Just once. One good, solid punch and then start to move on from there.
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Date: 2012-05-04 12:53 am (UTC)I also agree that I don't want to see this turn into something that gets between them so they end up like ADC's Holmes and Watson. (When Holmes "died", Watson hadn't even talked to him in a year. I don't think Watson was completely broken by Holmes dying because Watson had a wife and a job and hadn't been part of Holmes's life in forever.) What I like about this show is that as different as they are, they care about each other so much and if John had to move out because he resented Sherlock for faking his death, I'd have to throw a tantrum worthy of Sherlock.
All that said, I trust Mark Gatiss and I an really interested to see how John deals with this.
Thanks for sharing the story!