This has to be here!

I think this graph is very funny and it always gives me a good smile.

I'm glad you included it here.  

With me I think it was his eyes that I first thought were kind of uniquely strange looking but mainly I just couldn't get over the fact that the actor that I had seen as Khan in STiD was the same person I saw in The Fifth Estate.  I read it in the credits and I still was amazed that it was the same actor.  Then I saw him in August: Osage County and I was thoroughly intrigued about this chameleon type actor with the strange looking eyes and the unusual sounding name.  

Then my sister told me he was in a BBC version of Sherlock Holmes and I should give it a try and again I couldn't believe that this one actor could be so versatile.  And from then on I was Cumberbatched - hook, line and sinker!    I zoomed right up to "can no longer perform daily functions" level pretty quickly after that.  I do peak every now and then to the "love turns into blinding rage" but only if I hear people unfairly criticising him (granted, to me all criticism of BC is inherently unfair, at this point ). 

And now, the more I read about him (with his charity work, his political and social passions, the respect he garners from his colleagues, etc.) and see of him in interviews (with his open-hearted, "joie de vivre" for life, his total happiness with having Sophie and his new family in his life) my respect and admiration for him grows exponentially with each passing day. 

:-))

It was his Sherlock that got me interested. I can still remember the conversation I had with my sister after I saw ASIP:
-I just watched that new Sherlock show that they talked about in Entertainment Weekly.
-The one with that unusual-looking actor?
-Yeah, I guess he is unusual-looking. And there's also the naked guy from Love, Actually. It's so good! I can't believe they did that for tv! It's better than most movies I've seen!

I only had that one episode at the time, and I watched it over and over. Then one morning, while I was driving to work, they were talking on the radio about Empire magazine's list of sexiest actors (or something like that) and they said he was number one. I remember thinking "That's the guy who plays Sherlock". So as soon as I got to work I looked it up on the Internet, and discovered a whole world of gorgeous photos of him - looking very different from his Sherlock character. It was around that time that I finally gave in and got Netflix so that I could watch the rest of Sherlock. But he was like a drug, and after a while Sherlock wasn't enough anymore -I needed more! That's when I turned to YouTube and watched every interview he had ever done and all those poorly-recorded videos of his past performances. All of that was before Sherlock S3 aired on tv.

I frequently find myself at the top of the graph, lol. Today I'm at "omg his everything," which is where I spend the remainder of my time. After the dream I had about him last night I'm sitting here in a warm daze. He's lovely. 😍