16 of the funniest Sherlock fandom moments in gifs

METRO
Wednesday 17 Sep 2014 8:00 am




The Sherlock fandom is one of the most dedicated out there.

For a show with just three short seasons this is particularly astonishing and a testament to just how great it is.

Let’s be honest, the pairing of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock and Watson was a genius move.

The Sherlock fandom is revered and renowned for going above and beyond.

It is full to the brim with memes, gifs, fan fiction and hashtags.




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(photo) Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch spotted with mystery brunette enjoying Secret Cinema and theatre

DAILY MIRROR
Aug 30, 2014 22:30
By Simon Boyle

Benedict Cumberbatch with his new friend

Sherlock star star Benedict Cumberbatch appears to be off the market - sparking horror amongst his legion of adoring female fans.

The actor has been spotted out in London twice this week with a mystery brunette, enjoying a play at the National Theatre and checking out a screening of Back To The Future at London’s latest fad Secret Cinema.

And the news has prompted uproar amongst his surprisingly obsessed female following - who imaginatively like to label themselves “Cumberbitches” - who quickly began spreading the news between themselves.

I’m told the star was even spotted dancing with his new squeeze as they enjoyed the movie at the Olympic Park in east London, where they were also joined by his Sherlock co-star Louise Brearley - known to fans of the show as Molly Hooper.

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Louise Brealey on kissing Cumberbatch

RADIO TIMES
Claire Webb
4:32 PM, 30 June 2014



Do you mind if I ask you about… “The Kiss?” Louise Brealey interrupts, before bursting out laughing. Clearly it’s a question she’s been asked before.

Brealey is best known as Molly Hooper in TV’s Sherlock, the timid pathologist hopelessly besotted with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Baker Street detective, as played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The drama is a global phenomenon, its leading man a sex symbol and that kiss – when Molly’s dreams momentarily came true – a YouTube sensation.

In fact, there were four kisses. “I milked it!” she admits. “Afterwards, Ben and I watched it back on the monitor.” She adopts a Hollywood drawl. “‘Yup, that’s pretty hot.’ And of course it went completely crackers when the show came out. I got 7,000 Twitter followers within five minutes of that kiss airing. It had doubled by the time the episode ended.”

While the odd tweet seethed with jealousy, most were a virtual pat on the back. Brealey believes that’s because “Cumberbitches” – as members 
of the Cumberbatch appreciation society like to call themselves – can identify with Molly. “She’s unthreatening.

She’s an ordinary woman experiencing the agony of unrequited love, and most of us have been there.”

Sherlockco-creator Steven 
Moffat never intended Molly 
to be a permanent fixture, but 
Brealey’s performance persuaded him otherwise. Molly has also become a central character in fan fiction, with thousands of stories posted online. Brealey has only read one. “I just thought I was reading your average story and it turned into straddling and nipple-piercing!”

Growing up in Northampton, she was an academic child, the only one of her siblings that her parents could afford to send to “posh school”. So, while they left the local comprehensive at 16, she read history at Cambridge – a late applicant, it turns out. “When my dad found out I hadn’t applied, he hit the roof. I tried to explain to him I didn’t want to be an Oxbridge reject, but he said: ‘Tough s**t!’ And quite rightly, as it goes.”

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‘Sherlock’s Louise Brealey Joins ‘Ripper Street’

ANGLOPHENIA
By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on June 20th, 2014

Louise Brealey, who plays the put-upon pathologist Molly Hooper in Sherlock, has been cast in the third season of Ripper Street as Dr. Amelia Frayn, who takes her place in a very specific moment in the advancement of medical science:

She told Radio Times: “I’m playing one of the first women doctors. I’m really excited because I did history at university and I love a bit of research. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson blazed the trail in the 1870s and in the intervening decade or so a few extremely intrepid and unusual women started learning to be doctors themselves.”



Her character runs a clinic in Whitechapel, which means her costume is very different to that of her female co-stars: “I’m dressed very soberly and the other girls are all so ravishing. I’m like a little Jenny Wren. Literally, where are my pretty feathers?!”

She also revealed a particular bond with her co-star, Matthew Macfadyen. “He’s so nice. Just lovely, funny and very kind. His family is from Northamptonshire, which is where I’m from, so we’ve had a Rose of the Shires bond.”

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Sherlock’s Molly Hooper: The Woman That Counts

WHAT CULTURE
August 14, 2013 Jaime Grover

Molly Hooper (Louise Brealey) is the adorable, kind hearted and often overlooked pathologist in the BBC television show, Sherlock. Originally written as a one-off for the pilot, she managed to win over the hearts of  the show’s viewers and over the course of the first two series has now become a fan favourite.

Molly is hopelessly (and blatantly) in love with the lead character, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and yet is often left feeling as though he is unaware of her very existence. She is always there to assist him with any experiments for the cases he’s working on and allows him complete access to the lab or the morgue as necessary. Many people believed her to be a bit of a pushover throughout the first series – however – I believe that over the course of the show (series 2 in particular, though) Molly Hooper has become an extraordinary female role model for girls and women around the world to relate and look up to.

Having strong female characters has become extremely vital in film and television in this day and age. Feminism has been working some of its magic in the media and this is a truly brilliant development. Move over, damsel-in-distress! Make way for confident, powerful heroines! Characters such as these are ones to look up to, certainly, but can most of us truly say “Yes! That’s me!” whilst watching the clever, sexy, confident Irene Adler kick some butt in A Scandal In Belgravia? Perhaps some of us could (which is excellent), but many might find the powerhouse female archetype difficult to relate to.

This is not to say that it isn’t fantastic having these strong female role models – it still proves that women are not always the victims and there are plenty of women out there who can hold their own and take care of themselves. Extremely refreshing. However, a character like Molly Hooper is just what we need. As previously stated, viewers of the show thought of her as a pushover and utterly incapable of standing up for herself throughout the first series. Although she does not have an incredible amount of screen-time, her character has developed tremendously since A Study In Pink due to the excellent writing and also Louise Brealey’s phenomenal portrayal of the character.

The situation that Molly is in (unrequited love) and her overall personality represents one of the most believable and relatable characters I’ve ever witnessed on television. She genuinely cares for people and about what they say down to the last detail. She has relatively low self esteem and doesn’t carry herself with much confidence – and yet she smiles even when we know she’s upset. She knows that Sherlock doesn’t reciprocate her feelings and yet she is willing to stick around and be there as a friend if that’s what he would prefer. That is unbelievable strength and something that many women can relate to or aspire to be.

The first time that Molly really proved her inner strength to the viewers was after being completely embarrassed by Sherlock at the Christmas party in A Scandal In Belgravia. Rather than staying silent – or the other extreme of slapping him in the face – she simply expressed her disappointment in his actions. She is the only character on the show that has actually gotten Sherlock to apologize and honestly mean it. Molly deserves so much respect for how she handled this situation – not too many others would have done the same.


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Sherlock's Louise Brealey - "I'd write a shocking kiss for Molly and Sherlock" (RADIO TIMES) Paul Jones 1:21 PM, 01 July 2012

Its hero is a high-functioning sociopath who deals in observation, deduction and cold, hard facts but it seems fans of Sherlock are not above a little romance - and neither are its stars.

Louise Brealey, best known to viewers as morgue attendant Molly Hooper in the show, suggested she’d like to give the relationship between Molly and Sherlock a push in the right direction, telling fans via a webchat on RadioTimes.com that if she could write just one scene between the two it would be “A rather shocking kiss".

Brealey did not elaborate on whether the clinch in question would be shockingly unexpected or shockingly passionate, but there's little doubt her lovestruck lab geek would be grateful for the thought, having pined over the detective for two whole series of the BBC1 drama, with only a few brief moments from the final episode hinting that he might consider her anything other than a useful tool in his work.

During the chat, Brealey fielded numerous questions about Molly and Sherlock, as well as co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, revealing that her favourite thing about the actor was the distinctive curve of his lips, "his cupid's bow".

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Sherlock 2: Steven Moffat on the Surprising Molly Hooper Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat on the surprising joy of creating Molly Hooper. (MASTERPIECE MYSTERY)

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