Mark Gatiss

I can't think who

else was a guest writer other than Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss.

Was that

it?

Yeah, but Mark Gatiss kept coming.

Did he do something in series two? Yeah, he did The Idiot's Lantern.

The Idiot's Lantern.

So some people saw us one way around and some people saw us the other way around.

Anywho, so the reason why we're here today, the next episode of Series 7, The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss.

I didn't mind this one, actually.

I thought it was all right.

Yes.

She was very melodramatic, wasn't she? It was very Victorian melodrama.

And you can tell Mark Gatiss wrote this episode because he loves melodrama and he loves his little phrases.

Monster.

It's like, oh, when you do things, it makes sense.

Because I imagine there's also a strange thing where it's like, Yeah, the pressure's on, especially the fact that there are people in the past like Mark Gatiss and the ones in Jeremy Bradshaw, where it's just like people will always unfortunately compare you to others.

I love the fact that you did take the character in your own way,

especially

also with Jonathan Small as well in Sign of Thought, which is not that well known in terms of being produced, but it is still a big role.

Yeah, it was important.

And one thing I did is, you know, I'm not the most brushed up on my Sherlock culture history, you know, but my closest thing was I did watch BBC Sherlock with, you know, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gatiss.

But when it came to doing Mycroft, I didn't touch anything because I didn't want to be influenced by previous interpretations.

And this whole stupid plot revolves around keeping the relationship between the two of them a secret.

But who cares? It's sort of it's that sort of cosy twee world, you know, like Mark Gatiss's bookish, but with considerably less going on.

And there's not really much you can say about it.

It's just a big old cosy shrug.

yeah with the the master inclusion is the one thing where it's like it's a shame because we could have got something really great there with the seventh doctor

yeah yeah he's kind of he's kind of taken a step back the last few years where he's like on a zoom call for the ultimate foe and he's playing second fiddle to the Ronnie in the Mark of the Ronnie.

And even Fire, the Planet of Fire, it's like, I don't even remember what the master does that story.

Yeah.

Hopefully it's only like a year or two and not

like ten.

But I think, but no, that's actually, I think it's kind of the opposite right now where I think, I think that like, I think someone like Mark Gatiss pointed out in a recent interview, it's like, I think the show kind of doesn't either be gone for a while.

It can't just come back in two to three years.