Comic-Con 2013: Day 11 of 4
It's been more than a year and a half since viewers were treated to a new installment of "Sherlock (2010)", and fans are getting antsy.
But in the world of Sherlock Holmes, even the modernized version realized by "Sherlock's" executive producers Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, patience and the ability to pay attention to detail promises to pay off handsomely.
Right now in the UK, the second season of "Sherlock" is repeating on air, and viewers can discover key details about the new season by paying close attention to the subtitles. The title of the third episode of the upcoming season, for example, will be revealed during next Friday's telecast.
"Use your detective skills!" advises series creator Steven Moffat.
There are certain details that no amount of sleuthing can uncover, which is by Moffat and Gatiss's design. To call the pair reluctant to reveal spoilers about unaired episodes of "Sherlock" is putting it mildly. However, at their first San Diego Comic-Con appearance, the producers kindly loosed a few details about the third season -- including a time jump, and a wedding.
At least two years will have passed since the events of the second season finale, and John Watson (Martin Freeman) has found the woman for him in Mary Morstan (played by Freeman's partner Amanda Abbington), which Moffat confirmed today in a panel for fans and to press. The bigger question how Sherlock returns following the end of The Reichenbach Fall (2012) remains to be answered.
What Moffat and Gatiss would reveal was the third season's theme. "Real life continues to flow around (Sherlock)," Moffat explains. "He thinks it will stay still, being the man he is, that everything will be identical. But people have their life. People move on. Things happen, and it all flows around him. At the same time, it’s him trying to survive within that."
What about the prickly bromance between Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Watson? "It’s not quite the same," admits Vertue. "But, you know, Sherlock did go off for a couple of years and not tell Watson he was alive."
Clearly "Sherlock's" third season, set to premiere in the U.S. on PBS, will be a case worth investigating.
But in the world of Sherlock Holmes, even the modernized version realized by "Sherlock's" executive producers Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue, patience and the ability to pay attention to detail promises to pay off handsomely.
Right now in the UK, the second season of "Sherlock" is repeating on air, and viewers can discover key details about the new season by paying close attention to the subtitles. The title of the third episode of the upcoming season, for example, will be revealed during next Friday's telecast.
"Use your detective skills!" advises series creator Steven Moffat.
There are certain details that no amount of sleuthing can uncover, which is by Moffat and Gatiss's design. To call the pair reluctant to reveal spoilers about unaired episodes of "Sherlock" is putting it mildly. However, at their first San Diego Comic-Con appearance, the producers kindly loosed a few details about the third season -- including a time jump, and a wedding.
At least two years will have passed since the events of the second season finale, and John Watson (Martin Freeman) has found the woman for him in Mary Morstan (played by Freeman's partner Amanda Abbington), which Moffat confirmed today in a panel for fans and to press. The bigger question how Sherlock returns following the end of The Reichenbach Fall (2012) remains to be answered.
What Moffat and Gatiss would reveal was the third season's theme. "Real life continues to flow around (Sherlock)," Moffat explains. "He thinks it will stay still, being the man he is, that everything will be identical. But people have their life. People move on. Things happen, and it all flows around him. At the same time, it’s him trying to survive within that."
What about the prickly bromance between Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Watson? "It’s not quite the same," admits Vertue. "But, you know, Sherlock did go off for a couple of years and not tell Watson he was alive."
Clearly "Sherlock's" third season, set to premiere in the U.S. on PBS, will be a case worth investigating.
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