#Freebatch

[a-victorian-girl]

THEM . TOGETHER . AGAIN.

@giftober 2023 | Day 14: "Reunion"

[samuelknightley]

Candies, chocolates, beautiful ribbons, none can compare to my love for you.

[nhtmcat]

Benedict Cumberbatch talks about Sherlock and Martin Freeman

Interviewer: Sherlock, anyone knows Sherlock? Obviously, it has been wonderful, but you had said that being in Sherlock that was magic. Why do you think that?

BC: Um… It was a lot of things. It was Martin. It was a modern era take on it. It was Steven… first of all, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss took something they were obsessive fanboys over with total respect, and they crafted a modern version of it with huge (amount) details, hugely rewarding loyalty towards the original stories, but with a very witty plot twist. And I think it was also, you know, it was the dawn of Twitter, and this guy was on the internet, and John Watson was blogging. And I think there was a synchronicity where television became, you know, it was pre streaming. It was sort of a water-cooler moment made digital. And I think that's why it went global. And I, I don't know, maybe it was the part that had just been waiting for me at the right time as well. I just loved it. It was just a heck of a thing. And again, the mental geek a bit. He had to be in the digital space the equivalent of the computers. He had to have an AI speed so that he was speaking as fast as most people think, but very quickly. And that was an acting challenge, and also to some extent having him work on this character, how that fits in society now, where you have asexuals, autists, whatever those, you know, you know, whatever theories of those kinds of wonderful superpowers are, you know. And I think that spoke to a lot of people, that he had a superpower. And socially incredible also such a lot of people take pleasure of other people being vicariously rude or straight, or direct.

Interviewer: No filters for him.

BC: Yeah, no filters for Sherlock. And I think that is a part of his appealing. He's brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant mind.

Interviewer: What was the first time you walk around the street without being unnoticed?

BC: Oh, you know, it was a particular type of hair, which I don't normally have. You know, I have dark hair and I don't usually have it that long. When I just stepped out of some, you know, pre-production, it literally was that I'd go to the hairdressers and come out, dyed and with the shade, and people literally crack it and sort of, oh, Sherlock! It’s him. It was the first time. And I remember when we were making it, Martin was already very famous from the Office. And when we kind of spent time with each other, started all sorts of, you know, people would sort of go, oh, this is Tim Canterbury! ‘Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's being younger than me, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah…’ He just joked about it.

Interviewer: He's such a fun and nice guy.

BC: Yeah, he's great. He's very funny. One of the funniest human beings I've ever met. And just so inventive and brilliant. And he filled that role with so much nuances and care. He's a precision artist, he's technically brilliant, but he's also a musician I mean, he's got jazz in there as well as every other kind of music. He's wonderful to work with, and like I said, I think that was very early in my answer, that was a huge part of it - that chemistry - that I liked to be there really well.

Red Sea International Film Festival, Q&A, 10 December 2024

[eslliecheng]

New practice on BBC Sherlock

[raposarubio]

I love Martin's smile here 🧡

Credit of the original footage to the respective owner.

[221b-alovestory]

Look at your best friend

Pine a bit more

A bit more please

A bit more

I mean wtf

[ncru53]

Is it just me that feel like benedict at the back is about to cry

[enterthetadpole]

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Bleeding Between the Lines

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[cristalisiaovo]

I see you.

[ellinorosterberg]

How ‘bout we turn every form of “Nah, they’re not gay, they’re just friends lol.”

To “Nah, they’re not friends, they’re just gay lol.”

[backtottpd]

Does anyone know this? They were really together? !

[a-victorian-girl]

Freebatch vibes (not mine! Idk who did this cute pic. Here is the link)

[samuelknightley]

[zaa0620]

Get the new Sherlock.

Unhappy and silly 😜 不高兴与没头脑..

[eslliecheng]

practice BBC Sherlock

[raposarubio]

So really my first ever Tumblr post (hi there everyone 👋).

Somewhere on the way between Sherlock, Johnlock and co I stumbled and fell deep into the Freebatch well and now I'm seriously stuck down here (but I love it tbh 🙃).

I'm currently going through the stages of denial, reconsideration and pure bliss, whenever my doubts are being proven wrong by these two lovely dorks.

The excerpt above from Setlock S3 is taken from the video including the famous interaction between MF and BC being ridiculously cute together (Martin fondling invisible dirt from Ben's collar and then both of them being all lovey dovey with each other at the front door of 221b - you know what I mean...)

This scene however happens shortly before and since I haven't seen anyone ever mentioning it, I wanted to share my observation:

While taking off his coat Ben is heading towards Martin, whose arm and hand are stretched out in his direction. Getting closer Martin is fiddling with his fingers seemingly gesturing to Ben. For me it almost looks like he's initiating this move to get him to hold his hand...

Then their fingers actually touch for a brief moment and while Ben is gently slapping Martin's hand away also mouthing something to him, Martin is pulling back his hand as if he had burned it on a hot plate (aka Ben's skin *cough*).

He then puts his finger to his nose in an almost embarrassed kind of way. Meanwhile Ben is walking past by and stopping in front of Martin to almost provocatively fanning himself air with his shirt.

Now, I don't know if anyone else sees this the way I do, but for me there's so much (sexual) tension happening between them in those few seconds, that whenever I'm doubting whether Freebatch is real or not, it brings me back on track and makes me a believer.

Especially considering the scenes happening merely after, as I've already mentioned above.

Please note, it's only my point of view and maybe my Freebatch brain is desperately playing tricks on me, but I've always wanted to share this ever since I've noticed it, because it's driving me crazy (in a good way, but still) 😅