“Here’s the thing, basically I think he didn’t start this way. He was brilliant, he was obviously a bit of a prodigy at school and an outsider because of that. I think what happened is through dints of that isolating experience he started to hone his varied concentrated skills. And they (his school) require a certain cast-off and I think ideally it’s what he tries to fashion himself into…because he has possibly been hurt, because he does possibly have a heart. He’s someone who is robotic, almost, in his logical capacity to pick on problems like a machine. And what this series is about is (his) gestation and his relationship with Watson very much humanizes him and ground him. It’s his growth from this sort of impervious, almost super-hero level of intelligence, quite through a dint of hard work, but still feels almost unreal. So, he protects that (his intelligence) to a point whereby he can’t anymore, he has it, he guards that down by his feelings, the fact that he’s revealed to be human. We see, virtually, a humanization of him, I guess. That’s his biggest problem, his wanting to be more than human and escape frailties of being human while at the same time still being human. And I think he’s got a God complex in a way he wants to be something above a mere mortal.”