#about sherlock

[fandoms-spamdom]

He’s like a wife to me

[lunadax]

i'm so glad I'm not the only one having strong sherlock feels at the moment

Oh dear, I’m having strong Sherlock feels ALL THE TIME!!!

honestly, although series 4 wasnt my fave, for many reasons that i shan’t discuss here, I’m still crazy in love with this series. 

these actors. 

these scenes. 

these feels. 

that cinematography. 

that music

this fandom. 

I shall never leave.  

[bbcsherlockpickuplines]

“I like you more than Sherlock likes Toby.”

[whelvenwings]

I agree with your review. TFP was disgusting and offensive. Just out of interest, though, how were Moriarty and Eurus queercoded and/or what kind of queer things were they saying? I just didn't see that. Thank you!!

I’m so glad it wasn’t just me who felt this way!! I went back to the episode to find the exact quotes on the queercoding side of things. First we’ve got Eurus, who has this interaction with Sherlock:

Eurus: Oh! Have you had sex?Sherlock: Why do you ask?Eurus: The music. I’ve had sex.Sherlock: How?Eurus: One of the nurses got careless. I liked it. Messy, though. People are so breakable.Sherlock: I take it he didn’t consent?Eurus: “He”?Sherlock: She?Eurus: Afraid I didn’t notice in the heat of the moment. And afterwards, well, you couldn’t really tell.

Here we have Sherlock, the hero, establishing a heteronormative, non-consensual narrative for what happened; Eurus wrongfoots him by queering this narrative. Throughout their conversation, Eurus is scaring him, setting him off balance, being cruel. This has been the pattern of their conversation so far. So when she introduces queerness, it’s implied that she is intending to have that same effect: of scaring, setting off balance, seeming morally wrong to Sherlock’s morally right. She explicitly states that gender doesn’t affect her sexual choices, which would usually be indicative of, perhaps, pansexuality - but it’s done in a way that’s frightening and destabilising both for Sherlock and for the viewer. Queerness is a trump card for her to play, here, another weapon.

Then we have Moriarty. Firstly, he arrives to the tune of I Want to Break Free by Queen - lead singer Freddie Mercury, “self-confessed bi-sexual”/ The joke in the song name is there, it’s funny, but then you pair that reference with what Moriarty says and things become a bit more nasty. There are two snippets for him:

Moriarty [apropos of nothing, speaking out of the blue]: Do you like my boys? This one’s got more stamina, but he’s less caring in the afterglow.

and

Mycroft: You’re a Christmas present.Moriarty: Oh! How do you want me?

In the first instance, the words are being spoken to the head of the prison; in the second, to Mycroft. Both times, knowing Moriarty as we do, we assume that they are meant to frighten - since that’s kind of his whole thing whenever he talks at all.

Both of these villains use queerness to destabilise the “normal”, to take the good guys’ heteronormative worlds and twist them, add an edge of unexpected danger. Queerness is quite clearly written in TFP as something you shouldn’t do, something that is frightening to do, something you can use as a threat, something you can use as a weapon. This is never challenged. There is no positive queer narrative to counteract it. It’s not a bad thing to have a queer villain - but when both villains are explicitly queer and no one else is, that’s queercoding. It’s hugely damaging. When people react negatively to queerness for no reason they can put their finger on - when people tell you “it just makes them feel weird” or “it grosses them out” or “it makes them nervous” - point fingers at this. It’s this that solidifies the connection between queerness and deviance, queerness and dangerous mental imbalance, queerness and moral wrongness. And it sucks.

[cupidford]

denofgeek com/uk/tv/sherlock/46247/sherlock-series-4-benedict-cumberbatch-on-his-evolving-character

oh wow

Speaking at a post-screening Q&A at the swanky December launch of the new Sherlock series, Benedict Cumberbatch shared some insights into his character’s evolution. After some joshing about co-creator Steven Moffat’s description of Sherlock in series four as “less of a dick” than previously, Cumberbatch got serious.

“He takes himself off to therapy at the end of the episode, what does that tell you?” he began. “I think he’s very much now becoming more of a human being.”

“He’s let care in” the actor continued. “Mycroft’s not so wrong when he talks about ‘beware of sentiment’, [Sherlock’s] blindsided himself with his own humanity.” Sherlock’s friendship with John Watson, as Cumberbatch sees it, has been “a humanising element through all three series”. Watson is “the missing part of the jigsaw” for Sherlock's character.

On the subject of the episode’s events at London Aquarium, Cumberbatch explained that Sherlock “actually is doing something to protect [Mary] but he becomes so impassioned in his destruction of this woman in that moment that she becomes weaponised by his cruelty and what happens... happened.”

The character’s heroism, as Cumberbatch explains, is “because of an evolving kindness and a supernatural… near-supernatural intelligence but actually natural, that’s very important to distinguish--he’s somebody who has honed his craft and there are sacrifices involved. Some of those may be made clearer in the future of this series—who knows?”

Someone who does know is co-creator and The Six Thatchers writer Mark Gatiss who confirmed that from this point onwards, series four "darkens considerably".

[maia-longhorn]

Now that I’ve surfaced form the shock...

This episode was absolutely mind blowing. I’ve feel everything from joy to fury. From sorrow to tenderness. From anxiety to insanity. It was quite profound... heavy... intimate. I wasn’t able to speak. I couldn’t scream because my family was close and, well, they think I’m loony... sort of... but they respect what I watch and none of them wanted to watch the show with me so I internalized everything and respected their hearing. I have friends that love the show but they don’t understand English so they weren’t watching it with me. They will watch the last episode eventually but... until then... I can’t speak. So WHY did I not expressed myself here until now? I am not good at making people understand what I say or write. I can’t select quickly the right words. Even in Spanish. I’m not fast at it. And I’m still trying to write English correctly. I’m not in my comfort zone right now. I couldn’t cry like I expected because... I don’t know. I’m still don’t know why. The episode was highly emotional and I was so moved deep in my heart. Maybe I didn’t want to show emotions with my family so close, maybe I was really expecting the worst. Maybe I was already depressed... and the episode wasn’t as dark as my thoughts. I mean, I really though before this episode that they killed off Molly and/or Mycroft (well... they DID torture Sherlock emotionally [oh wow no shit great deduction 5/7 yay *slow clap in the distance*]). Of course I’ve reacted adequately at the bits of awesomeness of this episode but my reactions were short lived. I kept reminding myself that if I feel good it will make me sadder in the end. I was anxious every time Molly’s and Mycroft’s lives were in jeopardy and then chuckled nervously relieved as hell. All the guilt in Mycroft’s eyes made me sad every freaking time. Watching Mycroft reactions in Euru’s gross experiment was hard. I had difficulty breathing since I saw the coffin because somehow I realized what was coming. And my heart hurt like someone physically punched me right in the chest repeatedly. I trembled when I saw Molly cry. I roared internally in victory when Sherlock said “I love you” the second time. I felt fucking relieved when Molly said it back. My fury was reflected by Sherlock when he broke down the damn coffin. Oh and Mycroft provoking Sherlock to shot him? Damn I was so mad. I was climbing walls internally. Sherlock’s suffering was stressing me out to the limit. And although I was smiling and sighing happily at the end of it all, my mind was having a battle. A very scary part of me wanted to rewind just the dark moments of this episode. And it was drowning me. I was like a zombie for almost one hour. But... (oh thank goodness THERE’S a but) the awesome/happy/funny moments warmed me bit by bit. Especially because they were blogged and reblogged over and over again here, reminding me of how wonderful the episode was. I was good. I loved it. (and thE I LOVE YOU MOMENT OMG I WANTED THIS FOR YEARS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH) I’m at lost because it was a perfect ending and I think it IS really The End. FIN. The conclusion of BBC Sherlock. I wish there will be more but I have no hope. They could not bring back Sherlock from this ending, I think it would be awkward. Thank you, lovely person that read it all. I am better now.

[atlasioh]

Okay. I've caught up on Sherlock now and won't say much more than the fact that this is not the same show I watched way back in 2010 and Molly Hooper deserved so much better.