BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / New Trailer!

**Posted by besleybean** November 26, 2013 6:35 am

2 hour slot?

**Posted by Be** November 26, 2013 9:08 am

MNRebecca wrote:
HATE the fan sequence. Feels so self-important and indulgent on the part of the writers. But it's okay if I'm in the minority on this.

I see what you mean, but we don't know the plotline and the context.
It's a bit intriguing, isn't it. I expect more of the same.

**Posted by Marva** November 26, 2013 9:22 am

Swanpride wrote:
I don't judge before I have seen it...in general, I would like to them breaking the fourth wall a little bit an awknowledge the fan craze around Sherlock. I somehow like the idea that the real live movement happens in the show, thus blurring the lines a little bit..

Exactly!
Sherlock is such a modern show anyway, and I really love love love the idea that they go a step further, not only making a tv show but somehow interacting with the audience.

**Posted by SolarSystem** November 26, 2013 10:15 am

May I just show you what I think is a brilliant Teaser...? Well, two Teasers, for Series 2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRby5d9hL8s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF1Tndsfobc

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**Posted by SolarSystem** November 26, 2013 10:24 am

And btw, I don't judge before I have seen it, either, I'm just not very happy with the Teaser as a Teaser, if you know what I mean. It will probably work in the show, but it's not really what I'm interested to see in a Teaser... after waiting for new footage for such a long time, I'd like to see something else, it's as simple as that.
There's been a bit of new footage of John, but what we see of Sherlock we've already seen in the first Teaser. And not even "Just the two of us against the rest of the world"...

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** November 26, 2013 2:41 pm

KeepersPrice wrote:
OMG! I'm not at all understanding the criticism of the 'fan group' scene in the trailer. I loved it for the cleverness of the concept. John's blog had made Sherlock famous - even the Queen had taken notice. Kitty the reporter was passing herself off as a fan in the courthouse toilet scene compete with hat and badge, etc. So obviously a group of fans already exists in the BBC Sherlock canon. Why shouldn't these fans figure into the story somewhere? And if I recall correctly there were fan-boys in the scene also (maybe not the 'second type of fan' Sherlock mentions - but you never know). I embrace the use of the speed of Twitter and social networks in the scene which emphasizes the continuation of Sherlock in the modern world. I have no problem with a group of "We Believe in Sherlock" fans who meet on a regular basis and keep the faith for 2 years becoming part of the canon. It's fun to think the writers are breaking down the fourth wall but I can also say that the existence of these fans in the story feels like modern day reality to me. I thought the fan club scene was awesome and I laughed with joy until I cried when I saw it. To me it was perfection. OMG!

^^^^^^^^^^^ I loved it too.

**Posted by anjaH_alias** November 26, 2013 4:27 pm

besleybean wrote:
No I have to say, generally I thought the 1st trailer was a masterpiece, but this...

I also don´t like it. Besides that somehow ridiculous fan group which looks like an AA-meeting, the scene is also not well acted. Absolutely overdone screaming. Maybe this happens so in reality but I don´t like it there as well and I don´t need to see it necessarily on TV. Self-reference must not always be clever. I believe in Sherlock, of course, but nevertheless it´s a strange choice for a teaser trailer to me and I can´t believe that these guys (besides Anderson of course) are real actors. So I really really hope it fits into the whole concept / film, although it doesn´t look like a masterpiece here.
Did anybody say it´s real footage like with the first trailer? Could it be extraly done just for trailer purposes? As a kind of joke, Anderson mixes with the real fans? That would be fun, indeed, but only for these who know the series - possible new viewers are excluded here.

**Posted by besleybean** November 26, 2013 4:30 pm

Must be part of the story.

**Posted by sirlockofthesher** November 26, 2013 4:42 pm

time slot? two hours in programming where Sherlock plus commercials can go? do they do commercials on the bbc? pbs doesn't.

**Posted by besleybean** November 26, 2013 5:54 pm

The BBC certainly does not do that kind of thing!

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**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** November 26, 2013 6:42 pm

No commercials on the BBC. That's what we pay our TV licence for.

**Posted by besleybean** November 26, 2013 6:43 pm

Quite so.

**Posted by tonnaree** November 26, 2013 6:46 pm

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
No commercials on the BBC. That's what we pay our TV licence for.

jealous

**Posted by sirlockofthesher** November 26, 2013 6:50 pm

ahhh... I see. Over here in the US we publicly support PBS...so they have fundraisers (telethons) right on the channel and you can call in a donate. They usually have really cool gifts that you can get if you donate a certain amount. I think-I might be wrong- but they receive grants and federal funding too.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** November 26, 2013 7:24 pm

Oh yeah. I think I've seen them taking the piss out of it on Family Guy.

**Posted by sj4iy** November 26, 2013 7:29 pm

Sherlock Holmes wrote:
Oh yeah. I think I've seen them taking the piss out of it on Family Guy.

Yup, the PBS fundraiser-athons are pretty famous over here XD

**Posted by MNRebecca** November 26, 2013 10:13 pm

sirlockofthesher wrote:
Over here in the US we publicly support PBS...so they have fundraisers (telethons) right on the channel and you can call in a donate.

"Call 1-800-726-3178 or visit us online at www.pioneer.org." Oh, yeah. I can say it in my sleep. I'll be on this year on Dec. 5. Nerve-wracking as hell. Not as much fun as it used to be when we had a local map on the wall with pins in towns where donors lived and I could say, "Hey, nobody has donated from Terrace! Merlin, pick up the phone!"

sirlockofthesher wrote:
They usually have really cool gifts that you can get if you donate a certain amount.

I tried to provide something extra special this year for SHERLOCK fans...anyone could have gone after it thanks to on-line donating...but it didn't work out. #ThanksForNothingHartswood

sirlockofthesher wrote:
I think-I might be wrong- but they receive grants and federal funding too.

PBS charges stations a FORTUNE to be a PBS station. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, bless their hearts (or its heart, if you prefer), provides grants (at least to the poor rural stations) that cover the lion's share of the dues. My station's so poor that, I swear, the first year I pitched, they had someone's 10-year-old son running the camera. So give a little salute, my fellow Americans, when you hear that announcement about CPB before MASTERPIECE begins.

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** November 27, 2013 3:34 pm

So...this is what I come back to after not being able to properly be here for a week? ....AWESOME!!!!!! I LOVE the trailer! Admittedly, I would've loved to have seen more, but I gobble up every piece of Sherlock series 3 that comes out with fangirl relish, so...yeah , I pretty much screamed and started dancing when I watched the new trailer, and then I cried because....because....John's face....*sob*

**Posted by Be** November 27, 2013 3:58 pm

There is a reflexion on the headstone. Looks a bit like Sherlock's coat and collar silhouette, doesn't it.
Or I am already imagining things.

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** November 27, 2013 4:13 pm

Be wrote:
There is a reflexion on the headstone. Looks a bit like Sherlock's coat and collar silhouette, doesn't it.
Or I am already imagining things.

I noticed that to, it does look like Sherlock.