mrshouse wrote:

 
Guys, seriously! I'm sorry, but you're not serious about John and Mary being the big romance here? I swallow that everything has to bow to having a female character on the show and her being all kinds of awesome (vomits into mouth) and shoving no-johnlock down our throats by casting Amanda but this is the Sherlock and John Show!

Nowhere did it say anything about the big romance, only that the show included romance. I don't think hair dye or Welsh winters are that important in the show either, he's just listing slightly funny and intriguing bits and pieces from the experience.

@lib. But it would not have been sucessful would it ?
Or as much fun.
Remember the endings of S01 and S02 when the writers thought it might actually be the end.
They are about love , they agree to die together to take Moriarty out because oops Sherlock does have a heart  and TRF where Sherlock dies ish because he has loved ones - again mainly John. Then HLV again Sherlocks love for John is central . Not to mention TAB waterfall.
All the endings we have so far are about love between S@J .

Last edited by Mothonthemantel (June 3, 2016 6:37 pm)

Yes, they've said that their relationship is central, and that I'm sure they said that's what people fall in love with.  

I'll see if I can find some more quotes about the relationship from the Chronicles! 

This is going to be a long one, but I think it sums up some things we've talked about here:

Steven: We did a bit of deducing, I suppose.  We were wondering what Watson would have been like.  He must have been an adrenalin junkie!  He always talks about Sherlock Holmes getting bored between case, but so does Watson.  He's desperate for it as well: the thrill in his heart, the revolver in his coat - he loves it.

Mark: .. a modern war veteran, a man who lost his mojo.  And next to him we have Sherlock, who is on the verge of becoming a psychopath.   They meet each other at exactly the right moment, and they become one unit essentially.   So it was all about making the parts of equal size, giving them a hinterland of experience.  It's a huge moment in A Study in Pink, when Mycroft sya, "You're not haunted by the war, Dr Watson, you miss it!.  That explains everything about what John Watson puts up with and why he puts up with it - because in the end it's worth it to him.,

Steven: He's just as addicted. He likes to pretend that he's the sane, rational, normal one, but he's as bad as Sherlock in all those respects.  He's as keen for adventure as Sherlock, as irritable when it's absent.  I think you always have to remember that, of all the people that Sherlock ever ment, this is the one he chose to rely on.  In the judgment of a genius, this is a brilliant man.  He's not a brain, but Sherlock doesn't need another brain.  He needs the most reliable, competent, dependable human being in the world

Yes apologies , but I think listening to the writers one must  caveat emptor !
Look at the crime scene rather than believe the suspects.

Boy, this is really killing me. So either "romance" in the foreword is meant as a general statement about the process of the show or it is meant to describe John and Mary. But it certainly has nothing to do with Sherlock and John...? Right. Excuse me while I go and shoot myself. 

Yeah, not possible.
I'll follow you, dear...

I didn't say that, Solar.  I don't want to repost my post but have a look back, and at the full quote from Mark.  I think the full quote puts it in context.

So, this may be a bit off-topic but it isn't really... I just stumbled across this little comic, and thought about this debate. It's a bit long, but give it a read if you have a few minutes to spare. It's well worth it, and has a very beautiful message.

And only in the latter do we KNOW he was talking about Johnlock.