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behindtintedglass:

M: Casting John Watson was a longer process because we needed to find a fit to Benedict. You think, there’s two alpha males there. That’s not gonna work. Or somebody would come in whose energy was a bit too submissive and it wouldn’t be a match of equals. They needed to be a sort of commanding officer and a slightly junior officer but they’re still officers. And they respect and love each other, really. But Martin came in and it was just instant.

S: It wasn’t just what he did. It was the effect he had on Benedict. Benedict suddenly became even more like Sherlock Holmes if Martin was in the room. It was slam dunk! We couldn’t contemplate anybody else for Watson the moment we saw Martin and Benedict together.

And in line with my previous post, it also warms my heart to know that the reason why Martin Freeman was chosen to play the ever-loyal Dr. John Watson was similar and entirely parallel to the reason why Dr. Watson had carved a permanent place in Sherlock Holmes’ life, as his partner, his friend.  Because even though Benedict was already brilliant in himself, it was Martin who brought out the best in him and made his character truly come to life.

And I love — really, truly, especially love — the way their dynamic on-screen is a true reflection of the nature of Sherlock Holmes’ and John Watson’s relationship: you can see that Martin, like Watson, watches Benedict’s every acting nuance and movement and takes his cues from there, knowing how to act by reacting to everything Benedict was doing.  And Benedict, like Holmes, is constantly spurred on by the steady but not overpowering presence of Martin, and his theatrics and dramatics are necessarily reigned in by the subtlety and restrained humor of Martin’s acting.

This is what makes a perfect on-screen partnership: when the actors are truly the characters which they play.

valeria2067:

“Yes, thank you, John, but do please notify me a few seconds in advance the next time you drag me to the ground and roger me senseless in the middle of a case.  All right? Good.  Well, then. Would someone kindly find the smelling salts for Detective Inspector Lestrade? I need to ask him a question about the suspect’s criminal history.”

alicexz:

dapperowl:

That commission that I was talking about earlier.  I was inspired both by a fanfic and by the notorious Reichenbach Falls episode.  

“Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.”

GUYS LOOK LOOOOK I COMMISSIONED THIS YES HOLY SHIT THANK YOU HUNTER *claws face*

sigtryggr:

John, you’re an angel. It’s going to take you a while to adjust to losing the power of flight.

Sherlock Holmes is an angel, and I think, one day, if we’re very, very lucky, he might even be human.

Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.

So about fifty billion (more like six actually but it felt like a horde) different people requested people with wings and at first I was like ‘okay I can do that’ and then I was like ‘wait angels’ and then I was like ‘Sherlock’s not an angel he’s got to be human’ and then I was like ‘but wings he needs wings????’ and then I was like ‘no wait what did Moffat say that Sherlock was a man who aspired to be a god so maybe Sherlock built himself a pair of wings because being human simply wasn’t enough’ and then I was like ‘but wait WAIT John wait what John and Moriarty how does this even work WAIT JOHN and the and John’s lost a wing in Afghanistan and and and and wings aren’t actually all that uncommon there’re enough of them around and generally angels tend to be outwardly good people so there’s lots of angels who are doctors and policemen and such but few of them can fly and John was an exception in that he could fly EXCEPT HE CAN’T ANYMORE but walking with Sherlock Holmes, who’s at once human and something worse and something better, makes up for the loss of flight and oh my god and wait is Moriarty Lucifer or something I don’t even know and wait wait wait AND SHERLOCK WITH THE WINGS HIS FALL FROM GRACE IS LIKE AN ICARUS THING OH MY GOD’

and then the next thing I knew it was the middle of the night and there was an orphaned AU that needed an author