XistentialAngst's Blog, page 209
December 4, 2015
welovethebeekeeper:
just-hilson-things:
I’d choose you. ///...
I’d choose you. /// {x}
Granada version are so ‘married couple’, our BBC Sherlock are all blinky and falling in love ‘I found the one’.
November 29, 2015
conversationswithbenedict:
1electricpirate:
watsonsdick:
AU -...
AU - Parentlock
“Oh but Papa likes it!”
“He doesn’t”
“He does”
“Nope”
HELP ITS SO CUTE IT H U R T S
PERFECTION.
Aw!
November 25, 2015
"This wasn’t a case of, ‘Let’s grab that off the shelf and update it.’
It was, ‘We love this, we..."
This wasn’t a case of, ‘Let’s grab that off the shelf and update it.’
It was, ‘We love this, we think everybody’s been getting wrong, and we think we can get it right.’
Unless you think you’re correcting everyone else, you shouldn’t be doing something.
You should be saying, ‘Now this is the way it should be done.’
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Mark Gatiss, on updating Sherlock. (2010 interview [x])
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(via skulls-and-tea)
Yeah, this (among many other quotes) is why I totally agree: it’s deeply improbable to the point of being strange to imagine Mark Gatiss saying this in the context of then intentionally creating Sherlock to include queerbaiting. I do want to think that people argue that in good faith, and I realize that some do, but I also think the thought process necessary suggests some level of acquiescence to heteronormativity and bias or anxiety-driven catastrophizing that isn’t borne out by what we know of the creators’ motivations and interests. At best, it’s choosing to believe in the worst in people even though there’s both strong circumstantial and textual evidence as well as past statements to the contrary.
I think this (and this quote by Ben C) both support the idea that whether or not they had a detailed plan, they did have a *vision* that both the writers and the main actors had to be on board with in order for it to work. There are a number of other quotes that support this, and to focus only on the ones where they deny John and Sherlock being in a relationship (which they’re not in yet) is simply cherry-picking. Further, these quotes support the idea that they thought their plan was big and important, and also that they thought it was *better* this way. Many people may disagree, but I’ve yet to see a real argument as to what would be so much better and so superior if not for canon Johnlock. How is a modern adaptation supposed to be super cool, in and of itself? It really does seem like blind deflection to argue that Mark Gatiss, of all people, would think that doing everything the same except in 2010 (plus queerbaiting! mustn’t forget!) is somehow corrective and exciting. If that’s not blatant heteronormativity, what is?
Basically, if this is not a blatant authorial statement of intent, combined with a near-explicit queer reading of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I don’t know what is.
(via mild-lunacy)
thorntonsheart:
xistentialangst:
benedictervention:
[x]
“Dr...
[x]
“Dr Watson asks the question that I’ve always wanted him to ask–” Hard to imagine what that could be other than “So, are you queer?” or “So you’re not interested in women at all?” or “You’re a virgin, then?”
Don’t you think?
XA
I’m going to be dull and suggest ‘what made you this way’
Hmmm. Possible. But they already had that line in the trailer and in the article they’re acting like it’s a big secret what John asks.
signoftjlc:
i can’t get over the fact that if you google image...
i can’t get over the fact that if you google image search ‘jealous john’ the first two rows are entirely john being jealous over sherlock like you don’t even have to specify from bbc sherlock you don’t have to type johnlock you don’t have to specify ‘john watson’ just type the two words 'jealous john’ and you will get images of john saying 'you flirted with sherlock holmes?’ to irene, of john saying '57’ after having counted all 57 texts from irene to sherlock, of john saying to irene 'you’ve texted him A LOT’, of john’s reactions when sherlock and janine kiss, of john’s face with the green background when janine’s there, of john saying 'you have a girlfriend?’ to sherlock, of john watching sherlock fake propose to janine it’s all JOHN JOHN JOHN JEALOUS OVER SHERLOCK
THis is funny.
benedictervention:
[x]
“Dr Watson asks the question that I’ve...
[x]
“Dr Watson asks the question that I’ve always wanted him to ask–” Hard to imagine what that could be other than “So, are you queer?” or “So you’re not interested in women at all?” or “You’re a virgin, then?”
Don’t you think?
XA
November 24, 2015
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silentauroriamthereal:
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Whoa, I just got home & online and I see that Major Things have happened today, but I’m just starting to read my dash and such and therefore I don’t know if anyone’s said this yet (probably!!), but this sexy, smooth red chair and John in it, in the approximate location of Sherlock’s heart??? Yeah, I’ll take it! :)
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