...is the author of a bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories, the collection being called The Singular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Singular Exploits
 
 
Not sure whether he intended Johnlock or not, but: - In one story, a man is discovered to have faked his death, and Watson has this to say:  "I think it inexcusable that a man should pretend to be dead to those closest to him. I thought so before, when I certain person I know appeared to be drowned, but was in fact gallivanting all over Europe."

Since Watson also says he can't believe the man in this case, who was married, would do that to his wife, it comes across as though he's saying losing Holmes was like losing a spouse. 

In another story, Watson is mad because Holmes put him in danger (kind of  without Watson's knowledge):

Watson: Imagine poor Mary, if I'd been killed

Holmes: That aspect never occurred to me, but I would have made sure the bullet hit me before it harmed you.

Holmes, while posing as an architect to investigate a supposedly haunted house, putting on an "effeminate manner," much to Watson's consternation

"I cringed to think that this most masculine of men should choose to appear to the world as a gilded butterfly" - direct quote from Watson - sounds a bit homophobic, but it could be read as kind of an "Oh my god, he's going to give us away." And he's commenting on Holmes' masculinity - which he does in canon.

As part of his pose, Holmes expresses the hope that the rooms he and Watson are staying in are near each other - in case he becomes frightened in the night

In yet another story, Watson stays with another bachelor friend, Bob, who is also very close with a local reverend (also a bachelor). When Watson hurts his ankle, Holmes suddenly shows up to provide support, "moral and practical," for Watson - but ends up ruining Watson's friendship with Bob, through Holmesian antics, which he justifies as necessarily to clear up the solution to a mystery without comi

SusiGo[i wrote:

] I always assumed that Lady Smallwood contacts him only after the wedding so he was not interested in Janine because of her position with CAM[/i]. 

I assumed this at first...later I began to wonder. Sherlock's behavior with Janine at the wedding (receptive to her flirting) is more in-character if he's already targeting her as part of a case. In canon, Holmes (in disguise) moves in on a maid who works for the blackmailer Milverton - after he is approached by a client for help with Milverton.

But there is also the fact that being a good enough dancer to teach John him an excuse to spend time with John at Baker Street (it seems that John hasn't lived there since meeting Mary) and to hold John in his arms.  One way to take his behavior toward the end is that he wished he could dance with John now, in public!

I could imagine homophobic males making fun of Sherlock for being gay-in-love-with-John due to the dancing with John and also the speech he makes. It's not right that men who are perceived to be gay get that treatment.  But part of what makes Sherlock rather adorable in this episode is that he doesn't seem to realize those implications are there.


 

josabby wrote:

Sherlock seems to be able to turn on and off his drug use quite easily.  He never shows even a hankering for coccaine once he's done with his under cover work.  Cigarettes are a different story altogether where Sherlock is concerned. He seems to want those a lot more when he's bored.

This is very much the case in canon. There is no doubt he would rather have brainwork than drugs, and the drugs seem to be a last resort when he has nothing else to do. I would say there's an addiction there, but it's not cocaine, per se.

In the canonical story where Watson finds him in the opium den, it does seem to be part of a case - he's tracking someone or looking for them. (Married Watson returns with Holmes to the new client's home, where the spend the night in the same room.)

Interestingly, in canon, the drugs provide a point for conflict between Holmes and Watson - they are the one thing Watson really takes a stand about, with Holmes (well, that and the health effects of overwork), even though the harmfulness of cocaine was not well-recognized in that era. Watson is afraid Holmes will ruin his mental prowess...but I don't think we ever that happen...unless we want to infer it from some of the odder cases or ones where he's not doing as well. Watson's attitude is clearly motivated by friendship if not love, and it's implied Holmes less prone to both drug use and depression in later stories. Johnlockers like to say this is because he's happily married.

The Seven Percent Solution makes it more of an addiction - and deals with taking him to Freud to cure him. He goes over the edge when Watson gets married and he's left alone.

In this series, it seems weird that someone who is on the outs with his sister because she drinks too much would get himself and his friend (who is also his "charge" in a sense) drunk.

As a matter of fact, most Watsons throughout the years have had mustaches...and there is much Johnlock fanfic playing with the idea that Holmes likes to feel Watson's mustache tickling him....

But the line is nevertheless a little bit Johnlock-y, because it's like a woman (or gay man) saying, "I prefer my men (insert physical trait)" - talking about what he or she finds attractive in a potential romantic interest.

The very idea of Sherlock having a preference for John to look a certain way...

CAM admits that Sherlock wouldn't care enough about keeping his drug habits a secret to cooperate with CAM in exchange for it not being exposed.

On the surface, it wouldn't seem like Sherlock could be blackmailed, in the sense that CAM did to Lady Smallwood, over anything. He doesn't seem to really care about having a public image for morality, or anything.  And Scotland Yard seems to know about his...darker side and continue working with him anyway. I think if CAM were going to hurt Sherlock's reputation, it would have to be by making him look guilty of something criminal or terroristic, such that he couldn't be seen as an ally of Scotland Yard. Much as Moriarty did. BUT Sherlock is known to bend if not break the law, including his gaining entrance into CAM's own office...

The bonfire thing suggests that CAM thought that for Sherlock, he had to use "pressure" of another kind - threatening to hurt the one person Sherlock cares about, in a more physical sense.

But I do wonder about Irene as a pressure point..CAM could have just meant she is another person Sherlock cares about, whom he could threatend to ham...but if Sherlock and she ever "had dinner," I'd be surprised if CAM didn't find out. And he could twist that one into "Sherlock consorted with a terrorist," or perhaps, "Sherlock will protect any woman, no matter what she's done, if she'll 'have dinner' with him."

What I wonder is, would this consideration - of how it would look - have deterred Sherlock at the time from "having dinner" with Irene, if, as some have suggested, she offered it after he saved her?

 

I would have liked to see John show some happiness or awe at getting the very miracle he had wished for...which is what we mostly get in canon and other adaptations. I know it has been said that that's not very realistic, but really, how realistic is this series anyway?

And although we can understand John being angry, really, he's put up with other things from Sherlock that are almost as bad. 

Or let him be hurt in a way that shows what  Sherlock means to him:

I could hear something like, "You said you only had one friend. I didn't know you meant Molly, I thought you meant me."

Or an exchange where Sherlock explains why he didn't tell John, John says something about how he'd be tortured to death before he'd give Sherlock away, and Sherlock says, "but I wouldn't put you in that position."

Actually, I think, John's feelings should have gone in the other direction, so to speak: the FIRST reaction should have been a sort of giddy, "It's a miracle," and then he could have GOTTEN angrier later, as he learned more about what had been going on, and how many lies Sherlock told him, as well as the fact that Sherlock trusted so many other people and not him.

And I think the HEIGHT of John's anger should have come after the train stunt. It could have been sort of an accumulation: "He lies to me about being dead, and now he lies to me about us both being about to die."

Especially if they wanted to make it look like there were some problems between the boys throughout Season 3, at least partly as a result of Sherlock's deception - which as of HLV they are implying -  but in TSoT they let us believe everything was fine.

 

I like to think that Irene spoiled the little chances she might or might not have had by allying with Moriarty. 

You mean, this kind of turned Sherlock against her, or made him not trust her? Moriarty threatened John, after all.

(I have to add I didn´t like the end sequence, we know from ASiP that Sherlock is under surveillance and him flying to Karachi unnoticed and fooling Mycroft although he thoroughly checked it is her this time (you would like to see a head after a beheading?) is VERY unlikely to say the least. All the slashed terrorists would probably also lead to questions..)

And NOBODY Sherlock associated with knew he had left the country? Plus, how did he get past all those terrorists or whoever they were? I know he was in disguise but he was still VERY outnumbered and everything.

AND, in a way, I don't understand why Irene was about to be beheaded. I know those kinds of villains will kill their own minions who fail...but Irene was let go by Sherlock and Mycroft, so it wasn't like she was going to turn other people in to save herself. She really would have been free to go back to doing...what she'd been doing...if her OWN people didn't capture her.

The cameo of Irene in the mind palace seemed like the thoughts of a...more typical...hetero male. Distracted by something (potentially) sexual when he's supposed to be thinking of something work-related or important or serious.

I'm a Johnlocker based on canon, and the Brett series. I don't know if I would be if this series was the extent of my knowledge of Sherlock Holmes.

I defintely felt that while the writers teased the Johnlockers in Seasons 1 and 2 (SiB perhaps being in exception), with Season 3 they really tried to "shoot us down." (Excuse the expression - introduce plot elements and characterization to convince us the boys are hetero or at least NOT in love with each other.)

Tinks wrote: "We know [John] finds it hard to show his feelings."

Doesn't he share more character traits (potentinally negative ones) with Sherlock than in most adaptations? The original Watson was in an era when basically no one was allowed to really show their feelings...and yet he was pretty gushing about Holmes, for his time and more so than this John. It may not have been romantic love, but there was definitely hero-worship there! And he does describe Holmes' physical traits in flattering terms.

 

The more I think about it, the more I wonder if Sherlock may already have been "on the case," at the time of the wedding, "the case," being bringing down CAM or at least thwarting his attempt to "own" Sherlock's client, Lady Smallwood and/or Mary.

- this might be a possible reason for his leaving early (he has work to do)
- I have a sense that he's already done some research into Mary (we saw that he found out about David, which was "ages ago" so what else?)
- I get the feeling the name "CAM" in the telegram means something to Sherlock
- this would make his interest in Janine less out-of-character - he's already watching "CAM's people," and "targeting" one that he can suck up to, for lack of a better phrase. In fact, it makes everything about the wedding less out-of-character - he's not there to socialize -  he sees it as work.

Now, this would mean that the MPs interrogating CAM, and his confrontation with Lady Smallwood, which we see in HLV, happen before the wedding - but I don't think that's impossible. The timeline in the series can always be "fuzzy." 

Or, maybe Sherlock became interested in CAM because he found out about the Mary connection, before Lady Smallwood officially asked for his help.

5H0l3e5 wrote:

Yeah of course. They give us too much trash.

What I mean is, they cleared Sherlock's name kind of off-screen, then we've gone back to his being in serious trouble (charged with murder and this time it's REAL, and faced with being parted from John forever.) They also wrote out Tom, reviving the possibility of "Mollock."