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YOUNG lady???








Oh oops, I'm supposed to behave aren't I?
Don't tell the boss ok?

It's absolutely a love story and a thriller and a comedy and a campy over the top comic book. It is everything one could want and that is why we are all here If Sherlock had no feelings he never would have jumped off the roof, saved Irene, been dumb enough to decipher the 007 email to impress her or awkwardly apologized to John after the I have no friends rant. The premise that Sherlock is so superior intellectually and so stunted and repressed emotionally is what makes him interesting, to me anyway. Watching his feelings and sensitivity emerge little by little is one of many reasons I love the show. It does nothing to diminish the marvelous intellectual deductions and captivating adventure. It enhances it.

Mycroft knows who he is: the romantic detective ex pirate

Great observations Jane! You and I are peas in a pod

kazza474 wrote:

No, I believe he said it because Mrs Hudson WAS rambling on and he wanted her to shut up!
I would have said it.

I am believing you, kazza. 

kazza474 wrote:

Everything emotional is in the eye of the beholder.
These words you have used are emotionalising or sentimentalising the stories.
A love story? I think not. In the words of Moffatt, it is a story 'about love' but not a love story.

You have been warned to 'sentimentalise at your own peril' and I believe that the mystical aura some have painted around Sherlock will soon tarnish with the next series.
I am not saying you will hate him, but you will see that what you are treasuring at the moment has a very different meaning to that which you wish it to have.

Kazza, you sound just like my boyfriend He gets all manly and serious and dismisses any romantic aspect to this series. You are both cute in your rooster like protestations Yes, I am aware of the warning about sentiment. Fortunately I am also aware that the masters of misdirection and half truths who created this show love to keep a girl off guard. But my nose is deep in the hunt and I shall not lose sight of my prey

The stories are based on the canon. I prefer the more purist approach to viewing them. Romance is not part of the canon.

I sometimes wish Benedict wasn't the star of this show, I sometimes wish there wasn't the underlying joke of John & Sherlock as a couple. That whole thing frankly bores me.
However, as it has achieved some success in promoting the reading & appreciation of the originals, I can understand why it is there.

The things we do to get people to appreciate the classics!

Unfortunately, as I have lamented many times before, the success would be limited. Even in this small forum, I would venture a guess at less than 50% of members as being ones who really HAVE read & appreciated the canon.
But Sherlock is the 'in thing' at the moment, we can only hope for more.

I doubt you will find any 'misdirections' eventually leading to any type of love story. But in this day & age many seem to hedge their bets so that they can say ' I told you so' no matter what the outcome.

I am well aware of the mocking tones in here; they don't bother me. I have formed an opinion and have solid reasons for doing so. My opinions are based on fact.

It seems to me that a part of the genius of Sherlock is that it can be viewed in many ways and that each way is correct in its own particular way.  Sure, canon is canon and an author, in this case ACD, may have felt that his characters and stories had certain meanings, but readers will always read things into stories and viewers will always see things in TV shows that the writers may not have ever realized were there or intended to be there.  And in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with that.  In fact, if everyone agreed, what would be the point of having a discussion?

Whatever the relationship is between Sherlock and Mycroft, and I really can't decide if they like each other deep down or despise each other, reading what other people think has broadened my understanding of how they relate to each other.  Likewise with the relationship between Sherlock and John.  I do think that many people watched the show and got hooked on that, and then have gone to read the source material.  I myself find it really interesting to read comparisons between the show and the books.  Even though I've been a reader of mysteries my entire life, ACD never really appealed to me until I saw this version of the show.  So now I'm reading the canon to see how the characters were originally developed.  I haven't gotten to Mycroft yet but I'm looking forward to it!

I doubt they know, let alone me know.
I don't think like they do.
Thankfully.