“I’m Not Looking At Him… I’m Not Saying Anything… He Just Wants Attention.”

BBC Sherlock Super-High-Quality Production Pictures by Arwel (x) - 221B S3 set - Note the speaker dock on the table, which Sherlock uses to play the Watson waltz on.

Peter Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) is something that can be so personal actually

The reason the general public nowadays cannot see Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as a romantic couple is because romantic relationships in real life are not nearly as good as theirs is. The characters come from a time when men and women had a very different power dynamic in society – many can argue there are still remnants of that dynamic resonating today. The man ruled the roost, the little woman attended the home but made no actual decisions in her life. Can you imagine being a Victorian, used to that lifestyle, that unfair power dynamic, and getting your hands on a Sherlock Holmes story? Two people live together, work together, care about each other more than anything in the entire world, and each person is equal to the other? One is an army doctor, the other a detective, and together they kick ass… until it’s time to go to dinner and the Opera together. They vacation together, wake up and eat breakfast together, they know each other’s sleeping habits. They walk together in the park and don’t feel pressured to speak because they know each other “intimately”. They stay living together long into old age. What a romance! What an exceptionally high bar for romance! A bar everyone wants to meet but most don’t. Who doesn’t want to be in a romantic relationship where you and your partner love and care about each other most in all the world? Where you two spend every day together and you’re glad for it, and days you’re apart you wait impatiently for a reunion? Where you build a life together? Where you literally take to Journaling about how great your partner is? Where each person is equal?

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson have had an 130-year romance and that’s precisely why people love them. If someone does not understand that those two men were as intimate as lovers, it’s because that person does not grasp what a romantic relationship should be.

Have i ever had a romance as great as that of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson? No, not by a long shot, but i hope that one day I’ll be lucky enough to experience it myself.

How can I succinctly convince people coming out of the woodwork that yes S4 is “bad” but it’s Good actually. But not in the way people think i mean that. It’s not so bad it’s good. It’s for real actually good but only because it’s “bad” not because it’s actually Bad. Only real ones know.

A Watsonian Scholar's Experience Watching BBC Sherlock—A Study in Pink

Interesting, that soldier fellow. He could be the making of my brother. Or make him worse than ever.

But look how you care about John Watson. Your damsel in distress

steven moffat and mark gatiss when i get you