isitandwonder: ohgodjohnlock: youngqueenwerewolf: INTO BATTLEI´m giving you ammo to counteratt
isitandwonder: ohgodjohnlock: youngqueenwerewolf: INTO BATTLEI´m giving you ammo to counterattack BBC ´s outreageous answer Reviews that mention Sherlock & John relationship as more than being friends: As reviewer Monique Jones @moniqueblognet wrote in her review of The Final Problem for @COLORWebmag “the seemingly dismissal of the fans by the creators is little irritating. You can’t bait the audience and then get mad when they don’t get what they were expecting. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes books and this show are at the center of queer media critique, and there should be a level of respect for that type of decades-long scholarship.” INDIEWIRE: “we get clichés, queerbaiting and a modern adaptation that manages to feel more staid than the original.“ http://felixonline.co.uk/tv/6667/a-series-of-final-problems–sherlock/ “The seeds of the idea that the Sherlock and John relationship could develop into a romantic one were steadily planted never to fully flourish. Subtextually the show referred heavily to The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, a film that both Gatiss and Moffat rate as one of their favourite adaptations of the original stories – Gatiss going so far as to say to The Guardian that the screenplay formed a template for BBC’s Sherlock. In Private Life, Sherlock Holmes is depicted as a closeted gay man desperately, silently in love with John Watson, medicating with cocaine to hide his pain and guilt. Years after the film’s release, director Billy Wilder spoke of his great regret of never making the relationship explicit “I wanted to make Holmes a homosexual …” http://www.vox.com/2017/1/16/14279588/sherlock-finale-final-problem-review (There’s also the issue of queerbaiting; Sherlock has done a tremendous amount of it, continually turning the issue of John and Sherlock’s friendship into a running, insulting gay joke. If that was never going to go anywhere, as both Moffat and Gatiss have repeatedly stated it would not, it’s hard to see it as anything but a homophobic running gag at the expense of actual queer identity — even though Gatiss, an openly gay man, has done his part to give us complicated queer characters before.) http://www.ignitenews.ca/bbc-sherlocks-series-four-finale-was-not-the-final-problem/ What their relationship has turned into, instead, is an obnoxious and offensive joke throughout the series, with throwaway character quirks played for laughs. It is difficult for the audience to understand why Gatiss, an openly gay man, could write a perfectly complicated relationship that teases and hints at romantic entanglement, but is nothing more than an insulting running gag. Here´s a link where you can find more examples about the queercoding of the series using typical romantic TV tropes (with pictures): http://thecrosslocks.tumblr.com/post/156123338533/here-some-romantic-tropes-typical-of-romance-arcs Moreover: In Sherlock´s official Youtube account, the presenter uses the expression “the greatest love story never told” when talking in a video about Episode 2 The Lying Detective, at time code: 2 min 54 sec: SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE @bbcone -- source link
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