‘NOT BOTHERED BY SOCIAL MEDIA REACTIONS’
Creator of the Sherlock series, Mark Gatiss, talks about the latest twist in the show and more
Many were left in an emotional flux after the first episode of the popular Sherlock series, season 4. British actor Mark Gatiss who has created and plays the role of Mycroft Holmes in the popular series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, which airs on AXN, spoke to us on the phone from London, about Mary Watson’s death, the show and its popularity, and more. I am not bothered much about what social media has got to say about the plot twists, or the fact that they like a particular twist or not. We can’t over analyse things, because if we start doing that, then we would never be able to finish the episode. Personally, all I can say is that I am not making a show to get reactions on the internet. We had to do justice to the 120 year-old story, for starters. Secondly, you know a person like Mary, who was an assassin before she met John, you can’t expect someone like her to live a normal life. There had to be something that provides closure to her character. So we decided to kill her because her death will have huge consequences on the show, as you will see. In a way Professor Moriarty from the books was a bit like old Bond Villlains. That persona wouldn’t have gone with the modern adaptation. So we had to do it differently. The only two things that I have kept, as they were from the books about Moriarty, is the fact that he (Andrew Scott) is Irish, and second is the way Moriarty moves his head while talking. Rest I left everything else on Andrew, and everything you see of Moriarty is him and not me. Right from the charm, the glint in the eyes- it’s all Andrew. The idea was to do something different. The idea for us, was to use these popular stories which were written a century ago, and see how they would have fit, had someone written them in the current context.