ewige wrote:

Liberty wrote:

... It's one of the things that makes him uniquely Sherlock.  I think the show has actually stuck quite closely to that, even in the "relationships" with Irene and Janine - he's very guarded, never lets himself go down that route.   Personally, I don't want to see him go there with anyone.  And if they did go there (with John, or anybody, I suppose), there's no going back - we'd have lost "our" Sherlock.   

Yeah, that's the proverbial cake for me. Sherlock is so guarded, it's a delight to see his resolve take a hit from time to time. An acknowledged relationship would ruin the fun but I don't see Moftiss being too cowardly and not addressing this subplot at all in the end (whenever the end may come).

His aloofness, coldness and contempt for emotions were a uniquely Sherlock characteristics too in S1 and S2 (and in the canon). And yet in the S3 and TAB Moftiss changed that with ease and the Sherlock was not lost because of that. If they could go that way concerning his emotions, they could do same thing with his relationships if they would be so inclined....
 

They could, but lets hope not!   Do we really want him to have a girlfriend (or a boyfriend) when we're not even too happy with Mary?  Maybe when he retires ...

I need an option "I honestly do not care either way" 
For me John and Sherlock are soul mates, they complete each other. For me, the only difference between the most beautiful form of friendship and the most beautiful form of romance is the sexual attraction. And for me the story of Sherlock Homes and John Watson is just so beautiful that it does not make a difference, neither on the show not in a well-written fanfic.

As I've pointed out on this board before, I'm absolutely no Johnlock-shipper nor do I ship any of those other fan-fantasies floating around (I somehow never understood those, not in other fandoms and not in this one). I really don't want to see them as a couple, I don't want them to have a relationship and I don't want them to go to bed with each other. All that is for me, is that they have a very deep and very close friendship.
I of course love the fact they sometimes are mistaken as a couple or they make jokes about how close they are what could be mistaken as being a romantic couple but no, honestly.

Last edited by James Norrington (January 6, 2016 2:01 pm)