#sherlock thoughts

[pippin-katz]

Merthur & Johnlock

You know what I just realized? I was (and still am) a big Johnlock shipper. I love Sherlock despite the many issues I have with it, and it was my primary mlm live action ship for a while.

Then Merlin came along.

I kid you not, I literally said out loud: “Why the fuck was I bothering with Sherlock?”

I didn’t mean it in a “show vs show” way, but more in a “vibe vs vibe” way. There was something about Merlin that made me happier and more excited than Sherlock ever did. Merlin and Arthur’s dynamic was some how so much more fun to me than John and Sherlock’s, which is interesting given the similarities.

Arthur’s a privileged royal who has Merlin take care of him. Sherlock is very capable consulting detective who has John take care of him.

Arthur and Merlin insult each other constantly without any real bite. John and Sherlock insult each other constantly without any real bite.

Both pairs pretend not to care as much as they do, and go full “kill” mode if the other is in danger.

Neither of them know what “communication” means.

Arthur and Sherlock are both self centered and arrogant. Merlin and John are both sick and tired of their bullshit.

While Arthur and Sherlock can operate without Merlin and John, they struggle significantly when they’re absent. Arthur is a helpless mess, and Sherlock can’t focus on his cases to the point of missing an incredibly obvious detail.

Merlin and John are perfectly able to exist without Arthur and Sherlock, but they are miserable or constantly thinking about them. John lives with thinking Sherlock is dead for two years, and he’s super fucking depressed, even with a girlfriend he intends to marry. Merlin can’t go anywhere or do anything without thinking about if Arthur will be safe, and talks about him constantly for no real reason.

Both pairs are willing to die to save the other.

They both get jealous/protective when someone they don’t approve of is making advances. With Merlin it’s the princesses and ladies that take advantage of him, like Sophia, Vivian and Elena (albeit unknowingly), and Mithian, even though there was nothing wrong with her. The only relationship he supports is with Gwen. John gets super aggressive and protective when Irene is messing with Sherlock. Sherlock goes out of his way to interfere and insult every woman John is involved with aside from Mary. While Arthur never sees or is confronted with the idea of Merlin actually in a relationship, I’d assume it would go pretty similarity. His response to being told that Merlin is even “seeing a girl” is disbelief and skepticism when he gets back.

They both make ridiculous amounts of direct eye contact that anyone with eyes notices as being a bit much for friends.

I could probably find even more if I continued to think about it, but my point is that they’re very similar dynamics. So why do I like Merthur so much more than Johnlock?

I finally figured it out!

It’s because in Sherlock, their relationship is constantly questioned and denied throughout the whole show. It’s both a joke, and not a joke. But because it takes place in modern times, we constantly get reminders of “he’s not my boyfriend” or “I’m not gay” and constant jabs from side characters.

Merlin doesn’t take place in an era where they would talk like that. You could come up with equivalent dialogue that fits the time period, but it would definitely feel out of place. So it just doesn’t happen. Nowhere in Merlin are Arthur and Merlin poked fun at/bugged about whether their relationship is platonic. Nowhere in Merlin does Arthur or Merlin say “I’m not gay” or “he’s not my boyfriend”.

I didn’t realize how exhausting that was until it wasn’t there.

While Arthur is definitely attracted to women, and in love with Gwen, there’s never a moment where he denies Merlin. It’s because he’s never asked, but that gives the viewer more room to interpret their feelings.

With John, he’s constantly shutting down any suggestion of being gay, or being in a relationship with Sherlock, despite all the evidence in front of his face that he feels differently about him than other people.

Now that I’ve realized it, I’m shocked at how much of a difference that made in my feelings toward the shows and ships.

EDIT AFTER SEEING SOME REPLIES/REBLOGS: This is not meant to be interpreted as a Merthur VS Johnlock post!! I am purely talking about the subconscious difference in feeling I felt but couldn’t figure out!! This is not a breakdown of all my thoughts and feelings about the two shows/ships! It’s not meant to be about one being superior than the other! That’s why the title is Merthur AND Johnlock! Just clearing that up!!

[communitypools]

so like I know the Holmes' sister ended up being like, awful*, but that scene where Sherlock and Faith Smith (played by Eurus Holmes) is really sweet and my favorite, actually?

*extremely subjective

[bakerstreethound]

Sherlock nuzzling into your neck and clinging hard as if he hadn't been doing it for most of, if not a majority of the day cause he's happy you're finally resting and he can spend more time with you.

[musingsofmyown]

I wanna see more of feral Sherlock Holmes

I wanna see him straight up beat the shit out of some big buff dude because he pissed him off in the wrong way (and he wants to show off for John)

I wanna see him get called to do a mission for Mycroft and literally fight so efficiently that when John and Lestrade watch the replay they dont know whether to be shocked or terrified or both

I wanna see Sherlock Holmes fight one-on-one with some really skilled fighter and beat him down

Yeah yeah there were a few fight scenes, but I want to see feral Sherlock.

(BBC version, I know that the RDJ version is more inclined to the feral Holmes)

[itssweeterthanfiction]

You know that scene in Sherlock RBF

when Kitty tells Sherlock “and you repel me.” That really wasn’t the time like she did not read the room at all

my first time watching that episode I was still confused on Moriarty’s “I’m on TV. I’m a story teller” I was not looking for Kitty Riley’s redemption statement but she really thought she did something 😂

[steel-and-glass-64]

Thoughts on BBC Sherlock

For me, BBC Sherlock's interpretation of Irene Adler was not handled particularly well. Not only is she overly sexualized (being a "dominatrix" rather than an opera singer, which is, in my opinion, a VERY dramatic and strange shift from ACD's original text), but Irene is also shown to develop an attraction to Sherlock even though she indicates being attracted to women.

(I'll be honest and say that I don't recall if she ever states *directly* what her sexual / romantic preferences are, since I haven’t watched the show since about 2014 or 2015. But from I DO remember, it seemed like things were still handled very awkwardly in that regard.)

I'd love to hear what you all think of BBC's Irene Adler!

[magicalpinetree]

‘Even you? 

No, even you.’

 You know why I like this scene so much?

 It’s just all these years we’ve seen John as a humane emotionally-intelligent person, while Sherlock was always being a complete asshole to people ( not only strangers but the people he loves). 

To us, John was always a human and Sherlock was a machine. But by «human» Sherlock doesn’t mean you have to fit in or understand others. Being a human, in Sherlock’s opinion, is being imperfect and making mistakes.

 Sherlock makes mistakes very often. He says things that should not be said, that hurt people. He does the wrong thing and that makes him a human.  But John, he’s the one who’s always nice with others, who always does the right thing. He seemed to be a perfect, kind and loyal person.

 But he also makes mistakes. And Sherlock realizes that.  That’s what makes John human.

[magicalpinetreewhoop]

Since the very first episode we’ve known that John wasn’t haunted by war, he missed it. But just like the most soldiers who miss war, he didn’t miss blood or violence or deaths, he missed the brotherhood, that selfless devotion to one idea.

John misses the feeling of community, where every soldier shares an incredibly strong bound with other people he barely knows and is ready to sacrifice his life just to save the life of his mate.

Imagine how much love you must be holding towards another soldier, a person you don’t know, that you eventually have that huge amount of loyalty to put his life above your own.

And John finds that feeling again when being with Sherlock. As Mycroft said, you don’t see an ordinary city when you’re with Sherlock, you see a battlefield. John and Sherlock become soldiers every time they set off to investigate a case, ready to sacrifice their lives for each other every second ( just think of every time Sherlock was ready to “put his life in a harm’s way” just to save John and vise versa).

They are a team, they share a special bound together, because they have a reason why they do what they do. They’ve been through so much, and they’ve learnt to trust each other completely, just like soldiers fighting side-by-side.

John and Sherlock have that rare and selfless kind of relationship that lasts for ages and will always live on in our hearts.