BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Lovely Lestrade

**Posted by SusiGo** January 24, 2015 10:08 am

I just found this meta on tumblr and realised that we do have a thread for Greg Lestrade which is a pity. So this thread is for everything you always wanted to say or ask or discuss about Gavin-Graham-Geoff-Greg.

http://slashscribe.tumblr.com/post/108993537636/lestradisms-okay-maybe-six-gifs-was-a-bit

**Posted by tonnaree** January 24, 2015 12:04 pm

How much would we all love to find out exactly how Lestrade and Sherlock met? That's a backstory I would pay to get.

**Posted by Vhanja** January 24, 2015 1:26 pm

Lestrade is one of my favorite support characters, he is an awesome man.

**Posted by Schmiezi** January 24, 2015 3:16 pm

The tumblr post is really interesting, and once more I am amazed at the subtleties of the show.

**Posted by Mattlocked** January 24, 2015 4:20 pm

What a nice post! And in the second gif on top I also see fascination. Still fascinated, no matter how long the two may know each other....

**Posted by kittykat** January 25, 2015 10:28 pm

I love Greg, he's fantastic!

**Posted by Davina** January 25, 2015 11:07 pm

Such a different character than that in the original stories. I prefer Rupert's version, I confess!

**Posted by Whisky** January 25, 2015 11:23 pm

I think we don't know much about him, compared to other supporting characters. Molly has got her own stories, Anderson has... Lestrade is always connected to his work, he hasn't got a proper background story that's not about his work (I think, did I miss sth?). And I would like to know more. How he met Sherlock would be cool to know.
I just think they keep him neutral for a reason. Maybe they don't want to many supporting characters to have their own big developing stories. But I sometimes felt that although he is always in the picture, I don't know that much about him...
But he's a very likeable character!! :-)

**Posted by Davina** January 25, 2015 11:43 pm

Career policeman, not a posh background, marital problems, likes donuts, puts his feet up on the table.

**Posted by Whisky** January 26, 2015 12:06 am

Davina wrote:
likes donuts, puts his feet up on the table.

:-D that says it all

**Posted by REReader** January 26, 2015 2:51 am

One advantage of Lestrsde being such a lightly-sketched character is that things like that Tumblr post can fit right in--it leaves room for our imaginations!

Me, I'm convinced that Sherlock knows Lestrade's name perfectly well, he's being (to his mind) funny when he gets it "wrong".

Last edited by REReader (January 26, 2015 2:52 am)

**Posted by nakahara** January 26, 2015 8:39 am

What I like most above Lestrade is the fact that he is the only one of Sherlock´s friends who likes and accepts Sherlock exactly how he is and doesn´t want him to change, nor gives him sing-and-dance about his "vices". He stoically takes Sherlock´s tantrums and dramatic behaviour and even Sherlock´s digs about his name (I too think it´s quite deliberate), because he knows that Sherlock needs this drama with himself in the main role to do his detecting well. He is also the only member of Scotland Yard who is unfased by the fact that a haughty amateur consultant gets entangled into his cases - he is rational and level-headed enough to value the result (the restoring of an order and to remove the danger of criminals from society) over his pride as a policeman.

And of course, he is the friend who invites Sherlock with a hug instead of a kick-in-the-head upon Sherlock´s "revival".

Very lovely character, indeed.

**Posted by Davina** January 26, 2015 10:20 am

No, I really do think he hasn't got a clue that Lestrade's first name is Greg. To him it would be an unimportant fact to be discarded. Bless him!