BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Converting your friends and family members

**Posted by OneMoreMiracle** July 16, 2013 11:48 pm

I succeeded very greatly!!!! My babysitter (BTW I can babysit but my parents don't like me doing for the whole day so we get one if they are going to be gone for a long time) comes every Monday and I keep telling her to watch Sherlock but she never does, until last Monday. She came and told me that she had watched all of them except for the last one yesterday and that she was going to watch TRF the next day. She said she loved it an I was so happy!!!!!! So one down, lots more to go. My other great success was my younger sister (who's 10), and she didn't even watch the episodes!!! I just showed her a few funny clips of random scenes on YouTube and she fell in love with it! She keeps begging our mom to let her watch it, but Mom keeps saying no you can only watch it when you're twelve. My sister is SO sherlocked! Out dialogue before and after showing her the clips:

Before:
Me: Please let me show you just a few..
Her: No.
Me: Please!!!
Her: No.
Me: Come on.
Her: Okay, fine. (sighs dramatically)

After:
Her: OMG!!!! Can we watch some more!
Me: Told you...

**Posted by Mary Me** July 25, 2013 9:08 am

I watched TRF with my best friend yesterday. The good thing is that we could watch it in english because she is an american native speaker. She kind of fell in love with Moriarty. Can't blame her for that. But since she's also having Asperger's she could relate to Sherlock and even cried when he was crying on the rooftop.

**Posted by tobeornot221b** July 25, 2013 4:28 pm

That's so touching, Mary.
So you introduced your friend to Sherlock by STARTING with TRF? Interesting tactic...

**Posted by James Norrington** July 25, 2013 4:42 pm

Oh Mary, how could you possibly start with this episode??? You'll have to give people time to fall in love with Moriarty before they'll have to watch how he dies! ;) But the story about your friend is just lovely and sad at the same time...

I like converting people to Sherlock. A few months ago I had the DVDs (I still haven't watched a single film on the internet because I just can't get used to it) of the first three episodes in my handbag so that if someone I was bothering about would show interest I could just hand them over - which I did about three times - it worked and never disappointed me! :D

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**Posted by kittykat** July 25, 2013 5:43 pm

I've watched both Series 1 and 2 with my dad. First words out of his mouth when TRF finished?

"How did he survive?"

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** July 25, 2013 5:47 pm

kittykat wrote:
I've watched both Series 1 and 2 with my dad. First words out of his mouth when TRF finished?

"How did he survive?"

Hehe . When I first watched TRF it was with my mother, I can't remember what the first words out of our mouths were...there weren't any for a while, I just remember much sobbing and tears.

**Posted by sj4iy** July 25, 2013 5:56 pm

kittykat wrote:
I've watched both Series 1 and 2 with my dad. First words out of his mouth when TRF finished?

"How did he survive?"

Same with my Mom

**Posted by Mary Me** July 25, 2013 5:59 pm

Aww no. She knew Scandal and Hounds before.

**Posted by kittykat** July 25, 2013 6:03 pm

I think he's looking forward to Series 3 almost as much as I am!

**Posted by Davina** July 26, 2013 11:18 am

Your friend clearly has VERY good taste Mary Me.

**Posted by Mary Me** July 26, 2013 12:13 pm

Davina wrote:
Your friend clearly has VERY good taste Mary Me.

She would love you for this comment.

**Posted by Maggi13** July 27, 2013 12:05 am

Yesterday I started converting a friend. It was tough over the phone and I could not just sit her down, show her the first episode and wait for her to beg for more ;)
But I am confident she will let me know if she watched it.
Sadly for me the best part of coverting is when I get to watch them watching the show.
I should invite her for a sherlock weekend

**Posted by Mary Me** July 27, 2013 8:07 am

Maggi13 wrote:
Yesterday I started converting a friend. It was tough over the phone and I could not just sit her down, show her the first episode and wait for her to beg for more ;)
But I am confident she will let me know if she watched it.
Sadly for me the best part of coverting is when I get to watch them watching the show.
I should invite her for a sherlock weekend

Oh, you really should. I'm planning myself to do so with my fellow mates at school who also like Sherlock. However, their obsession hasn't reached... the full level yet. I'm working on it.

**Posted by Maggi13** July 29, 2013 9:49 pm

Oh my!
I just recently converted a good friend of mine.
Now he just checked back, watched season 1.

Me: And?
Him: Ya, it is not bad. Could be improved.
Me: Ouch. Really? I love it. But you already know that.
Him: Needs more episodes. ;-)
Me: Good answer.

One down, a couple dozen still to go.
I love this converting thing.

**Posted by sj4iy** July 29, 2013 10:04 pm

I got my mom, sister and friends to watch it. I'm +4

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** August 16, 2013 1:03 pm

Woot woot! I've FINALLY got my boyfriend to watch Sherlock! *dances* And he ended up watching the first three episodes in a row...yep, I've hooked another one *evil laugh*

**Posted by tonnaree** August 17, 2013 2:06 am

One of my co-workers just finished watching! Am especially proud because this is a male co-worker who has enjoyed teasing me about my obsession with BC/Sherlock. He said he only watched the first episode out of curiousity and couldn't believe how good it was. He also said he has to admit BC is a fantastic actor.

Last night he watced TRF. When he came in this morning he just walked up to my desk and said "Damn you."

**Posted by SilverMoonDragonB** August 17, 2013 2:39 am

tonnaree wrote:
One of my co-workers just finished watching! Am especially proud because this is a male co-worker who has enjoyed teasing me about my obsession with BC/Sherlock. He said he only watched the first episode out of curiousity and couldn't believe how good it was. He also said he has to admit BC is a fantastic actor.

Last night he watced TRF. When he came in this morning he just walked up to my desk and said "Damn you."

*high five*

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**Posted by besleybean** August 17, 2013 7:38 am

Yay! Aniother victim...to join we miserable bunch of Sherlock addicts!

**Posted by OneMoreMiracle** August 24, 2013 12:05 pm

OMG!!! Total success! Just tonight I started watching ASiP with one of my friends, and she loved it so much that we're watching all of them tonight! We're watching THoB right now, and it is 5:02 in the morning!! She is loving it so much, and she ships John and Sherlock together too. Another complete success!!!!! ;)