Watching Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays, Sherlock, and Martin Freeman, who plays Watson, in Victorian attires, running across the foggy, cobbled streets of Victorian London, chasing a ghost-bride no less, will surely be a special event for all Sherlock Holmes fans in general.
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When asked modern fans being alienated by a Victorian Holmes, Cumberbatch told Radio Times. But it was set in Victorian London, the 19th-century setting of the original detective series written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Although, one thing the entire Twittersphere could agree on is that tonight’s teaser simply left them wanting more.
But the decision to air a one-off special as opposed to kicking off the highly-anticipated fourth series this year likely has more to do with Cumberbatch’s demanding schedule than any grand artistic statement. That is what makes him so good and that’s what we love him for. “It had to be a stand-alone thing, so it’s a special, it’s different”. The case echoes Holmes’ own showdown with Jim Moriarty at the end of “The Reichenbach Fall” episode from the second series.
Whatever series creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat do next, they should be congratulated for, like their hero, making a seemingly impossible task look easy.
They admit they have toyed with different clothing and image combinations to modernise Sherlock, including jeans at one stage, but they just haven’t worked.
The British actor – who stars as Dr John Watson in the crime drama series Sherlock – has dismissed the notion of a mutual attraction between the iconic literary figures, insisting it is just a “deep friendship”. Four words says it all: “Because we can”, says Moffat.
“It changes the dynamic of filming because everything does take longer: it takes longer to get dressed, you’re longer in make-up, you’re longer in wardrobe and camera resets take longer just because there’s more stuff about”, explains the 44-year-old, who sports an impressive moustache in the special.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Moffat said: “We’re going to try to take it somewhere we’ve never been before – a challenging place to go”. “It’s the one element of Sherlock that faded a bit when it became modern-day”.
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride screens in Australia on Stan on Saturday, January 2.
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The feature was also released in 100 cinemas across the United Kingdom and debuted on U.S. television on the same day.
