For the first two seasons it seemed like Mofftis were doing everything possible to tease the Johnlock shippers and string them along.
Now it's like they're going out of their way to shoot us down, saying, "Ok, joke over. The boys are definitely hetero." And that's going to be more so in the next two episodes, I think.
I was surprised Sherlock didn't display more resentment of John's being engaged. I don't think that necessarily requires "sexual" Johnlock. I think it's a no-brainer that Sherlock would resent, and feel threatened by, John's getting a life that didn't include him. Even something like John moving out of Baker Street is a change Sherlock does not want. And even assuming John has forgiven him, being newly married is bound to be a priority that interferes with John's helping Sherlock.
There is some basis in canon for those feelings on Holmes' part, too. He says outright that he's not happy about Watson being engaged.
Sherlock may well be asexual...but the kind of person who only has one friend is bound to want that one friend to be the same way.
Back to the main question: most of their lines about each other before The Reunion teased Johnlockers. I can't remember them all but I most especially remember Sherlock's line that he had to get rid of the mustache because it makes John look old and "I don't want to be seen with an old man." The phrasing was rather suggestive of being a couple.
And John couldn't stop obsessing over Sherlock (at work) even while mad at him.
In the John Waton Blog entry for Empty Hearse, he says outright that Sherlocklives means johnwatsonlives.
I was surprised at Mary, too. Mary seemed to bond with Sherlock, and to make it her mission to get them back together. ("I'll talk him around?!")
She acts like Mrs. Hudson and others., almost treating them like a couple. She has to realize that John won't be the most attentive fiance / husband once he "makes up" with Sherlock. In canon, even when married to Mary, Watson would run to Holmes the moment Holmes snapped his fingers. Here, Mary seems in favor of his doing just that. Mary does in canon encourage Watson to go to Holmes once or twice, but it's more believable there because of the era.
No, society shouldn't assume that two men who live together are gay, but I think in this day and age, a woman who wanted to marry one of them would at least be asking him that question.
In all honesty, as much as the series dealt head-on (if jokingly) with Johnlock, I think the series itself kind of kills Johnlock, because of the way both Sherlock and John are written/played. It's just harder to imagine either of them being...romantic in the way that's depicted in fanfic where they're definitely in a relationship.
Writers of canon-based fic often really idealize and romanticize them, but especially idealize and romanticize Watson. Less so when fic is based on BBC-verse, but still - you just can't see these BBC characters in those romantic situations.
I might start a different thread on this topic.
Last edited by SherlocklivesinOH (January 20, 2014 7:01 am)
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