BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Out?

**Posted by Whisky** October 19, 2014 5:05 pm

lil wrote:
I think BC does know Sherlock well..back when he took the role on he said he had to consider carefully..because he knew it would be iconic..and it is.
Though no doubt BC is prob a little peeved about interviewers fishing for Sherlock info because they know it will sell and get hits....when he is trying to , and supposed to be talking about other things..like Turing.

Maybe he should then stop talking about Sherlock between episodes. I guess he feels "indebted" to Sherlock so keeps satisfying peoples needs to hear about it (and interviewers who know it will sell). But with all the other things he has now done, maybe he could say more often "well, it's not about Sherlock now, let's talk about that other film you're here to hear about". I think he could do that in a honest, easy to understand way without offending someone. The Sherlock fandom has proven it won't run away in the meantime.

Last edited by Whisky (October 19, 2014 6:47 pm)

**Posted by Harriet** October 19, 2014 5:08 pm

Sounds like a wise idea to me

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**Posted by besleybean** October 19, 2014 5:15 pm

I agree...
Tho nothing was as creepy as Amanda's pal popping up here that time, sniping at me then leaving!
Hey personally I don't care.
Most in the fandom hate me anyway, but I'm big enough to take it!

Last edited by besleybean (October 19, 2014 5:15 pm)

**Posted by Harriet** October 19, 2014 5:22 pm

What are you talking about, bb? Most in the fandom hate you? What for?

**Posted by Harriet** October 19, 2014 5:43 pm

"I hope it came across that I place most of the the blame on the magazine, where the bulk of the insensitive comments came from, and for putting him in that position—and on other media outlets who do this stuff all the time. No one wins in these scenarios. It’s a strange new reality, having fanfic so visible. We all have to learn to navigate it—there needs to be a healthy level of respect on both sides—and it’s my great hope that in time, we will."

Yesterday on http://elizabethminkel.com/

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**Posted by Lilith** October 19, 2014 5:46 pm

No Ms Minkel, that is defo not what was coming across. Back-paddling much? Duh

**Posted by Harriet** October 19, 2014 5:50 pm

To me it was exactly what it came across!

**Posted by Lilith** October 19, 2014 5:52 pm

Not for me though. I have explained my thoughts already. She had quite a nasty undertone in it. Which was not only blaming the magazin guy.

**Posted by Harriet** October 19, 2014 5:58 pm

So you missed this here?

"But really, the fault lies with the media. Please, please, please journalists: stop asking celebrities about fan fiction."

**Posted by besleybean** October 19, 2014 6:02 pm

Well journalists can ask what they like and celebs can choose to answer or not.
If they do respond, it's up to them how they do so and we can like it or not...
That's how it swings.

**Posted by Lilith** October 19, 2014 6:03 pm

I did not miss that but i also read the whole thing and how she lashed out. And i really think, i really really REALLY think that Mr Cumberbatch would be able to say "pass" or "next question" if he wouldn't have wanted to say something. Yet he did.

**Posted by Liberty** October 19, 2014 6:18 pm

From what's printed, it looks like Benedict brought up the subject of fan fiction himself.

Harriet wrote:
I'm just thinking Benedict keeps confusing erotic fan fiction with pron. His ideas seem to follow typical pron plots, and I also remember his question about fanfic in another context "Am I well endowed?"
Which I still find kind of embarrassing, like "Benedict, are you telling us here you are a secret Size Queen or what? I don' even want to know!"

I've read about 50 explicit fan fics so far, and I think in only one maybe two of them the size of someone's private parts was briefly mentioned. It doesn't seem to matter that much to writers and readers as it does to Benedict

I don't mean you so much, Harriet, but I've read much worse printed on this subject elsewhere and again it feels like a personal attack on Benedict when the internet takes a humorous comment and extrapolates that he has a thing about the size of his own manhood. He was joking! Is it really because of the Sherlock hiatus? Is he experiencing a sort of fan backlash?

Last edited by Liberty (October 19, 2014 6:27 pm)

**Posted by SusiGo** October 19, 2014 6:29 pm

Mod's note:
I have no idea how nakakara's post found its way to tumblr and of course there is no rule prohibiting this. But I think for the sake of fairness nobody should post anything from here without asking the member in question for permission. I know that this is an open forum and that any post can be posted or quoted elsewhere but at least members should not do that without asking.
Moreover I would request the members who have mentioned the tumblr discussion to edit their posts accordingly in order to prevent this at least from going further. Thank you very much.

**Posted by Lilith** October 19, 2014 6:31 pm

Thanks SusiGo .. Actually i have now realised that i quoted such a post and i will now either edit or delete it, whatever option is there.

Last edited by Lilith (October 19, 2014 6:37 pm)

**Posted by Zatoichi** October 19, 2014 6:34 pm

Thanks, Susi!

**Posted by besleybean** October 19, 2014 6:44 pm

Thank goodness I don't have Tumblr.

**Posted by ancientsgate** October 19, 2014 7:03 pm

Lilith wrote:
Oh well, "fiction friction" will blow over and to end this on a lighter note, i suggest next time Benedict will say this ...not that i am trying to lecture him, i just think it bit funny )

Yeah, I said this in some comment or other a couple of days ago. All he has to do is keep it light, smile and say something like, "Well, it's not my cuppa, so I don't get it, but that's what makes the world an interesting place, so they say. Everyone likes something different," and then go on to the next thing in the conversation/interview. If he did that consistently, I think most of the persistent questions about johnlock would stop. He feeds into the frenzy anytime he starts his usual comments about S and J chained together on a bed floating in outer space and how everyone who writes and reads fic must be about 15, etc.

**Posted by ancientsgate** October 19, 2014 7:10 pm

Harriet wrote:
I'm just thinking Benedict keeps confusing erotic fan fiction with pron. His ideas seem to follow typical pron plots, and I also remember his question about fanfic in another context "Am I well endowed?"
Which I still find kind of embarrassing, like "Benedict, are you telling us here you are a secret Size Queen or what? I don' even want to know!"
I've read about 50 explicit fan fics so far, and I think in only one maybe two of them the size of someone's private parts was briefly mentioned. It doesn't seem to matter that much to writers and readers as it does to Benedict

He makes these silly comments about fic because he hasn't read any of it. Others have told him about johnlock in a general enough way that he's jumped to several erroneous conclusions. Which is fine, I suppose, since eroneous conclusions happen, but OMG, he needs to stop repeating himself..... either get some education about what fan fic is, who writes it and why, who reads it and why, etc, or just STOP talking about it.

Many think all slash fic should be rated adult, and that just because it involves two men or two women having a sexual relationship, casual or otherwise, it must be porny, but as Harriet said, and I agree (she's read 50, I must have read easily 500 slash fics in three different fandoms in the last 10 years, lol, plus written and published 35 of my own in another fandom), slash does not necessarily equal porn. Much of it, especially the stuff that really is written by young people, is very PG-ish, actually.

**Posted by besleybean** October 19, 2014 7:10 pm

But really, he should be allowed to say what he likes.

**Posted by lil** October 19, 2014 7:18 pm

Yes.
We don't want him to go all politician non honest answer but pc and polite do we...
BCs opinion on fanfiction is the common one from most people that don't know all that much about it and don't want to either...thats all fine and valid isn't it?
I mean I don't like dr who.....see that actually happens.