Marina

Hence, you get the empty house and then the return of Sherlock Holmes and all of this kind of thing.

So, yeah, it's a great moment in franchise revival history.

They did.

Yeah, I think, well, I suppose the essential bromance is quite camp, isn't it?

The two blokes living together, bickering over like Holmes has got a chemical experiment that goes wrong and he's playing his terrible violin and stuff.

There's something, I mean, obviously online,

You know, you can fall into down a massive rabbit hole of the sort of Holmes and Watson fan fiction.

The longer the evening draws on, the darker and more disturbing that fan fiction becomes.

Holmes-o-eroticism.

Yeah, well, there's a lot of that stuff.

And of course, Goldhanger has its own Holmes and Watson fan fiction because it does the Sherlock and Co.

podcast.

Okay, sorry.

The Goldhanger Multiverse Fan Fiction, Shirley Marina with Micah Richards and Rory Stewart.

That's what people want to see.

But do you know the interesting thing, though, is that the way that it always works, and it works this way in The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson tells the story, but Holmes is offstage for the vast majority of the book.

So it's exactly as you say, Richard.

He's too potent.

He's too omniscient and too insightful and too powerful a character.

So you basically, to have any narrative tension, Holmes has to be in some mad disguise as a farmhand or something.