A very sweet interview with two of my favorite guys! (I got to see Shaun in concert last year, and let me tell you, it was everything I dreamed it would be.)
If you haven’t checked out Tamora Pierce, Margaret Owen, or Intisar Khanani yet, please do!!! I’m noticing a lot of fans of DWJ enjoying these authors and vice versa AND YOU COULD BE NEXT
Amazon insists Crowley calls Aziraphale "Lady Brackney" in the pub scene, but I googled around and think he actually made a Lady Bracknell reference, cause Britannica says "[she] is the embodiment of conventional upper-class Victorian respectability". Would you confirm that?
Yes. That’s the only line in the show that David improvised, too. I believe every take he’d order a sherry for Aziraphale with a different request (in the script I thought he’d be too far away to hear so I hadn’t written a line). I love that he calls Aziraphale “Lady Bracknell” for all sorts of reasons.
The David saying different lines collection is a bonus video on amazon prime! :) I really also loved Miss Maple, especially combined with Azi’s later mystery investigation :D.
It appears to me a lot of people’s impression of Sherlock Holmes’ drug use out of context is “he’s running around solving murders while coked out of his mind” which is really funny BUT!
As someone who reads acd canon & has the autistic urge to correct people about my interests, I’d like to let it be known that he actually primarily uses drugs between cases, because he gets painfully bored with nothing to do, stating “my mind rebels at stagnation.” This is because he has adhd but the diagnosis hadn’t been invented yet. Anyway
This can still be funny because it means the rest of the time he’s acting like that while completely sober. He’s just quirky. He IS a cokehead but it actually calms him down. Because he needs adderall
You may hear “Sherlock Holmes does cocaine” and think “oh, that explains why he’s so fucking weird” but you would have it backwards. He does cocaine because he’s already just Like That. He does this specifically when he’s understimulated. They didn’t have adhd meds in victorian london he’s taking whatever stimulants are available. And That’s why he’s coked out of his mind. But Not while currently working on a case, because that keeps him busy
*note: I have adhd I know how it is
However bear in mind, he might well be off his gourd on coke when he ACCEPTS a case, because he is usually in his bored state when the new client walked through the door.
“Glowing killer dog from the 17th Century? Foggy marsh with lethal swampholes? Shit, that sounds AWESOME! Let’s go Watson”
