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[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

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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.

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[mahmfic.livejournal.com]

very exciting. any idea when series 3 will air or start filming?

[kcscribbler]

While I'm all for John being ticked off at Sherlock and even throwing a punch or two, there's a part of me that's dreading it just because I don't want to see it turn into yet more of an epic fandom angst-fest if they decide to drag it out for too long.

Plus, in the BBC version, Sherlock had a very legitimate reason to fake his death (why should John be angry about being taken out of a sniper crosshairs?), whereas ACDverse Holmes really didn't have a leg to stand on there. If anything, I would rather have seen the scenarios reversed in the two universes. :/

But either way, WOOOT for any news at all about S3! *\o/*

[laurtew.livejournal.com]

However John reacts, I hope Sherlock actually talks to him, instead of his usual "hope John is bright enough to put it all together" approach. I have to agree that if Sherlock is contrite enough and explains, that John will have to forgive him. He has to make John see that he did it because he cares so much, not because John didn't mean enough to tell.

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!

[dixiebell12.livejournal.com]

There is only one way John can ever forgive Sherlock for faking his death......and that's through lots of sex *G* Bring on the smut :)

[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

I'd really like to see Sherlock come back in disguise, as he did in the original story. I love that bit. Dare I even hope for a glimpse of Ginger!Batch?

[pipmer1.livejournal.com]

This is coming from an admitted angst junkie, but I do want SOME emotional fallout regarding the hiatus. My fear was the writers were going to totally gloss over the emotional impact, but it looks like that won't happen, happily. Yes, Sherlock had a damn good reason for doing what he did, but I don't want him to dismiss out of hand what John went through. Some sort of acknowledgement from him of John's pain would be nice.I don't want it to drag out for an unreasonable amount of time; after all, we have to have action, adventure, and a plot as well :)

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! I hope there will be some kind of fall out (though not too much) for when Sherlock returns. I really thought Watson let Holmes off far too easily in the original books.