ukaunz wrote:

I agree Mark's comments in Mumbai seem to kill the idea of Johnlock.

I only found that comment now and it really confuses me. It doesn't sound like lying or pretending to me. Mainly I find it too straight forward to be pretence.

Lestrade: Go away, we're enjoying a secret baddie talk in here!
Mary, Sherlock: *nod nod*
John *brooding* mumbling: I'm not a baddie, I'm the good guy... and when exactly did Lestrade change sides?

Sounds logical, but I cannot get my head around the fact that
Mycroft would send Sherlock to do pretty dangerous "legwork"
if at the same time he admits that anything fatal happening to
Sherlock would "break his heart". That's not logical.
I think solving the ordinary case is something Sherlock is capable
of without getting harmed, and Mycroft knows this I guess.
But sending Sherlock out there to battle Moriarty, or Magnusson?
People who definitely have all the power to harm him, if not physically,
then in other ways that will ruin his life? Where's the worry and love in that?
Mycroft fears Magnusson, but is happy to offer Sherlock up to him?
I dislike this. Not congruent.

Also Mycroft seems very blind about his little brother. As clever as Mycroft
might be, he doesn't get Sherlock. For me, dragon slayer sounds a lot like shooting
down Magnusson. A dragon slayer doesn't catch the dragon, puts ropes on it and
puts it behind bars. A dragon slayer will kill the dragon.
So Mycroft understands Sherlock's MO, but fails to realise that Sherlock might
solve the Magnusson problem in his own way? Of course, the vaults, but still...
how can Mycroft be so surprised by the murder?
 

I immediatly knew no. 18. It helps that I really like TBB :-)

Got three others wrong though. Empty Hearse ones.

Very telling.

I'm wondering about the "100procent happy and energetic" concept some people have. I'm not 100 percent fine right now, and am told that I'm struggling too much and won't get where I want to go. huh? they try to discourage me instead giving me a proper heads up... Can't stand their unrealistic pink fluffy worlds where everyone can give 100 percent without any struggle. They cannot make me less ill, and I'm not going to lie in my bed until the sun comes out again, no thanks. So why not support me so I can do at least as much as I'm able to right now? Meeting s.o. suffering from depression makes people say "ah come on, it's nothing" or "ahhh, you cannot do anything, you're too ill" far too much. Welcome to black-n-white world. Ugh. Angry. Sorry.
 

So many new quotes from TAB... relaunch the game? :-)

By now I'm inclined to believe that there is a certain need to show more at some point. I'm still not agreeing there is romance to see for everyone.

I think we might see something like this in an episode towards the end: Sherlock and John happily vanish behind a door, there are noises that Johnlockers can interpret as happy snogging, and Mrs. Hudson's mind palace will show us all the details... ...while the camera leaves the door alone to zoom in on another snogging couple, which explains the noises... and everyone will be none the wiser. I'm rather convinced we'll see sth like this.

But of course, that's just me. But that's kind of the way they tricked their way around the Reichenbach explanation, imo. Giving everyone what they want to see (Molly kiss, Moriarty kiss) but not stating it as fact. I mean, we all know Sherlock never snogged Molly like this. And yet, isn't it satisfying nevertheless to have seen it? (I'm personally grateful for it, even if it's not "real".)

But, I can see that one coming already, will some name again as queerbaiting, won't you. To not show, but just assume.

I dunno... I just feel like whatever they do next, they should take out some of the tension one way (putting less innuendo) or another (making them snog each other senseless). As far as I am concerned, they can even turn it all around again at the very end... I just don't like the status quo
 

I love colouring books to relax, but didn't order this, because of the binding... I really hate it if my pictures are divided by the binding, and it's so hard to colour that part close to the binding. I prefer calender-like colourbooks, where you can later also take the pictures out and put on the wall. As far as I can see, this is not the case with this book

I really liked the theories about Mary's wedding ring, though.

http://loudest-subtext-in-television.tumblr.com/post/88272799479/softly-softly-the-bbcs-2009-lgb-research
Thanks for that link, it was interesting. Still, for me, it's not definite.

"I will grant it’s always possible that Gatiss and Moffat were given not only the green light, but actual encouragement to make the gay Sherlock Holmes adaptation they obviously wanted to make, and they were just like, “Nah, we’re cool. But thanks.” Possible, however, does not equal strong, or even plausible."

That's the problem. I can totally see why the writers, the BBC, basically EVERYBODY wants it to be a proper romance. I'm just not sure it is. And I don't think it's that I just assume everybody is heterosexual until proven otherwise, as the meta also mentions, but it's more that I'm perfectly happy to think Sherlock is whatever, let's say gay, and John is bisexual, yeah, and still they might not end up in a relationship, and that would be fine for me. People love other people, on a platonic level. It's normal. Women love men that way. Women love women that way. Men love men that way, etc. etc.
If they want to do groundbreaking, they could just as well show how deep affection musn't always end with both people in bed. (I would find that really groundbreaking indeed.) Or they could go for the romance. Both ways would be great, imo.

Just why it has to be romance, as TJLC suggests, as the only possible outcome, is not so clear to me. Although I now see very well where their arguments are coming from. I just think not deciding will become damaging to the show, rather soon. Otherwise, right now, I would assume, they don't know either. Which, again, would be fine, if we agree that some people live beyond categories - maybe John and Sherlock are doing exactly that. Though then I wouldn't know if the BBC likes that as a concept, from what I've just read, because probably many viewers wouldn't get the message (I wouldn't. I don't, right now). And as I've just

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Sounds good *scrolling back up to the lovely picture*