...and not to forget: domestic bliss.

Or a kind of 'dysfuntional domestic bliss', as Benedict described it.

And it functioned quite well until the end of TRF. 

And mentioning "dysfunctional" - to me it seems that all of John's relationships were/are sort of dysfunctional (yes, I include his marriage but we do not have to discuss this subject in here). The only lasting relationship is his friendship with Sherlock which would not have ended at this point if not for Moriarty. 

besleybean wrote:

Or a kind of 'dysfuntional domestic bliss', as Benedict described it.

He would know, since Sherlock puts the dys (ie, diss) in dysfunctional, for sure.
 

It's almost as if the writers' don't want us to get emotionally invested in the Watsons' marriage?

Regarding the POV - series 1 and 2 are told from John's POV while series 3 focusses on Sherlock's POV. Therefore we get to know much more about his feelings and the way his mind works. However, this does not change the way in which the Watsons' marriage is depicted, e.g. in the scenes at the beginning of HLV. They chose to show John dreaming of Sherlock and behaving aggressively afterwards. There is a profound change in tone from TSoT to HLV and it starts at the very beginning, not only after Sherlock has been shot. 

From canon, I always thought of Sherlock as asexual.
From the BBC interpretation, it's more difficult to define
I think sometimes, even Moffat and Gatiss have differing views from each other on what makes Sherlock tick (I'm not always convinced that Moffat delves that deeply into the back stories or mindsets of his characters,anyway).
And then Benedict will often interpret Sherlock in a completely different way from either of them!!!!
For my part, the only romantic attraction he seems to have shown, was for Irene.
His devotion to John seems like a completely different thing - loyal love for someone who makes him feel redeemable, but not, I don't think, romantic love.

Last edited by Tinks (April 18, 2014 8:43 am)

There were a few clues, which I chose to ignore.
Writer and actor both think he was attracred to her and maybe as men, they know!
Either way, what does it tell us of Sherlock's sexuality?

Last edited by besleybean (April 18, 2014 11:51 am)

tonnaree wrote:

I just didn't interpret how Sherlock reacted to Irene as love.  Fascination, challange, curiosity yes.  But love?  Just never saw it.

You know when the snake charmer plays his little flute and the cobra comes weaving out of its basket, mesmerizing whoever's looking with it beady black eyes, just before it strikes?  That's how I see Irene, as a coiled cobra, and I think Sherlock was mesmerized, fascinated, not so much as an object of his sexual interest as an object of his intellectual interest-- he was intrigued, admired her cleverness and ingenuity, simply because he hadn't met hardly anyone, ever, who can match him. Love? I never saw it either, not unless, you know, it was a wacky Sherlock brand of what passes for love. After all, Sherlock was "attracted" to the cabbie's poison pills, too, and to the little life and death game he was being offered. That's similar to Irene as well.
 

As Steven so eloquently put it: they were hardly going to settle down and buy a Volvo!