It’s not about Johnlock for me

myspecialhell:

It’s not about Johnlock.

Johnlock is only part of the problem. Many people in fandom, in tjlc part of fandom, are academics, writers, literary critics. We are taught to read texts. It’s our fucking job, what we have studied for. 

The problem is, and I think it’s time to address it properly, that Moffits do not ever deliver. They always chicken out.

Finish the first season with a cliffhanger? Give your audience a lame resolution two years after.

The fall? Give zero explanation and mock your fans for theorizing. And yes, it was mocking. 

Mary shot Sherlock? Gloss over this, bury it deep under the rug and pretend it did not happen.

Write a season, the fourth, which is filled with inconsistencies, with glaring continuity errors, and let it dangle as a possible clue to something more and then – forget all about it.

Get criticism? Answer with a poem rather than stop and think, “hang on, maybe he’s right, maybe we sort of don’t know where the fuck we are going”

Fill your show with romantic tropes, have your network queerbait the fuck out of fans and then get offended and be a dick to a fan who dares asking questions.

Yeah, the problem is not the lack of Johnlock. The problem is lack of intellectual honesty and humility.

I made a mistake, I overestimated them as writers. Lesson fucking learned.