#thotb

[peepingcreek]

KNOWLEDGE is understanding that A Scandal in Belgravia was the horniest episode.

WISDOM is understanding that it was actually The Hounds of Baskerville.

[bi-john-watson]

My Opinion On Sherlock

I’m ill today and because I didn’t have much to do I wrote I very long review on Sherlock on IMDb. I decided to share it with you!

Let's start with the first episode I watched. It was The Blind Banker, the second episode in the series. My mom watched the first without me so now she was watching the second. I was playing video games, but the more the episode continued the less I paid attention to my game and more to the show. I think about 15 minutes into the episode I put my game down and really started watching the show.

Before I move on I would like to say that I’ve always been really obsessed with movies, books and series. I always had at least one fictional story I would be so into that I would think about it all the time. When I watched Sherlock I could feel this was going to be one of those stories, but I never would have thought I would get more invested in it than any other story.

After watching The Blind Banker I was completely Sherlocked. Even though looking back at it, it is one of the lesser episodes to me. It still holds a special place in my heart because it was the first though.

The next day I immediately watched A Study In Pink and I loved it! I also would like to say this was the first episode I noticed that Sherlock and John didn’t really seem like... friends... Three people in the episode thought Sherlock and John were together! Three!! Those were people who know Sherlock better than anyone! And then John started asking Sherlock if he had a girlfriend or a boyfriend. And then Sherlock said girlfriends weren’t his area (really what is that supposed to mean) but I didn’t say the same about boyfriends. He just said he didn’t have one. Then John said he was single to and Sherlock thought he was flirting (I thought the same to be honest).

I’m bisexual myself and people can say representation doesn’t matter but it does. I’ve never seen myself in the media until I started searching. I would have known sooner if there would have been more. I always thought you couldn’t just like both. I always knew I liked guys so I thought I couldn’t possibly like girls to.

When I watched Sherlock it was about the time I started questioning my sexuality. And when I saw John definitely being into Sarah in The Blind Banker and later kind of flirting with Sherlock in A Study In Pink, I thought I could have found someone who is like me.

But let me talk about the show in general now. I watched The Great Game the same day I watched A Study In Pink. It was the best episode of Sherlock I had seen that far. In short: season 1 was absolutely amazing and the cases and characters were really interesting!

The next episode is A Scandal in Belgravia. It was absolutely amazing! The case was very interesting! I should say when I first watched it I didn’t understand everything since the show goes really fast, but I rewatched this show a lot and talked and read a lot about it on the internet so I understand everything now.

Although I really liked Irene Adler I had some things I wasn’t really okay with. If you have read the original books you would have seen Irene Adler was nowhere near a love interest of Sherlock Holmes. She literally outwitted Sherlock so she could marry the love of her life. Sherlock was impressed but it was stated in the books it had nothing to do with love. Still almost every adaptation has made her a love interest. I think everyone does that because there are almost no other women that could be a love interest because it’s always just Sherlock and John.

There’s also a conversation I need to mention after Irene fakes her death and she shows John that she is still alive:

John: “Tell him(Sherlock) you’re alive”

Irene: “I can’t.”

John: “Fine. I’ll tell him and I still won’t help you.”

Irene: “What do I say?”

John: *screaming* “I don’t know what do you normally say, you’ve texted him a lot!”

Irene: “Just usual stuff.”

John: “There is nothing usual about this case.”

Irene: *reads her texts to Sherlock*

John: “You flirted with Sherlock Holmes.”

Irene: “At him, he never replies.”

John: “Sherlock always replies to everything. He’s mister punchline. He will outlive god trying to have the last word.”

Irene: “Does that make me special.”

John: I don’t know, maybe.”

Irene: “You jealous?”

John: “We’re not a couple.”

Irene: “Yes you are.”

Irene: *ticks in something in her phone to send to Sherlock*

Irene: “There, ‘I’m not dead, let’s have dinner.”

John: “Who the hell knows about Sherlock Holmes, but for the record, if anyone out there still cares: I’m not actually gay.”

Irene: “Well I am. Look at us both.”

What Irene means by this is that although she and John are both primarily attracted to woman they still developed feelings for Sherlock Holmes. Irene is an expert on human sexuality so she would know. Here’s a link to this scene: https://youtu.be/EV8WXcfArxU

Then we have The Hounds Of The Baskerville. Although a great episode I liked it less than others.

Then The Reichenbach Fall. This episode is absolutely amazing! It is one of my favorites! It’s just so good I don’t know what to say about it!

Now to season 3. This is personally my favourite season. I still have seen negative reviews about it and the main reason why people didn’t like it is because it focused more on the characters rather than cases. I personally think BBC Sherlock never has been a show just about cases. In A Scandal In Belgravia they talk about sexuality and relationships all the time! If you compare Sherlock to crime shows you can easily see it’s really different.

This is the season where Mary is introduced and I have a lot of conflicting feelings about her. Mary marries John in the second episode of season 3. In The Empty Hearse I didn’t want anyone between Sherlock and John but I began liking her and I really liked her in The Sign Of Three. But then she shot Sherlock in His Last Vow!! I trusted you Mary! And I never even understood why?? His Last Vow was my favourite episode but I really didn’t know what to think of Mary.

Before I talk about season 4 I’m first going to say something about the Christmas Special: The Abominable Bride. I liked this episode but it was a weird episode. It didn’t make much sense and I don’t really understand what everything meant. It just kind of establishes that Sherlock’s Mind Palace is pretty gay. That’s all I have to say about it for now.

Now onto season 4. Which gave me way to much conflicting emotions. My main problem with series 4 is that they went to far. They wanted to make this more spectacular then all the seasons before but by doing that they made it unbelievable (I don’t mean unbelievable in a good way, I meant that it is hard to believe anything like this is a bit realistic). There are also so many plot holes and weird things happening here.

First The Six Thatchers. I found this episode pretty good, but they made it to much about Mary and I still hadn’t figured out if I should like her or not. I liked the case though. In the end of the episode Mary dies. And what I hated about this is that in His Last Vow this is said when Sherlock gets shot:

“It is not like in the movies, a big spurt of blood and you go flying backwards.”

And guess what, this is exactly what happened when Mary got shot.

Then is The Lying Detective. This was my favourite of season 4 although John hit Sherlock a lot, which is the thing I didn’t like here. But overall a good episode.

Now The Final Problem. Some elements of this were really cool and all but this was just to much. To unlikely. And so many plot holes I won’t even be listing them. I also found some characters out of character in this episode. I still quite like the ending. I didn’t agree with everything that Mary said in her video, but she said this which I liked about Sherlock and John:

“P.S.: I know you two. And if I’m gone I know what you could become.” (Seriously Mary what)

The ending shows Sherlock and John solving cases and raising... Rosie (I forgot to mention John and Mary had a daughter Rosie). Although I have problems with season 4 I’m quite alright with the ending. I can get over plot holes but my biggest problem with this is queerbaiting.

You probably never heard of this and some of you will think I’m just reading to much into this show but I just want to get this of my chest. Queerbaiting is when a piece of media (books/series/movies) hints at a same-sex relationship or a queer (queer=non-heterosexual) character, without ever actually depicting it. The queerness maybe ignored, explicitly rejected or made fun of (remember how it’s a running joke that everyone thinks Sherlock and John are together?).

I and the rest of the LGBT+ community wants to be represented. Being represented makes it more commonly known that people like this exist. I think a lot of people don’t know bisexuality exist because it’s almost never portrayed and when it is a lot of the time not in a good light. When you see a man and a woman kissing you will probably automatically assume they’re both straight. When you see two guys you will probably automatically assume they’re gay. Because of this bisexual people are mislabeled a lot. And everytime they have to come out again because of this. That is why representation is so important.

I think it’s pretty obvious that BBC Sherlock queerbaits. There are so many hints to them being more than friends. Everyone assumes they are, all the jealousy etc. Their sexuality are not left entirely ambiguous, like in other shows where it’s open for interpretation, but instead contradicted with the show almost outright saying it and the writers denying it and saying fans who saw a potential romance between Sherlock and John are delusional.

I would like Sherlock and John as just friends if it would have been presented that way. But it wasn’t and while I love this show I will always be bitter because they queerbaited.

I still give this show a 9/10 because I’m so passionate about it.

This is just my opinion so please don’t leave hate comments or anything. I would really like to hear your opinion though.

[reynardinetrenau]

Two sets of madly staring pale eyes

[watsonianbumble]

when you realize there might be a big horse-sized dog in the woods and you peed a little.

[victorianfantasywatson]

Rewatching THoTB the other night like

John and Sherlock break into Baskerville… into a military base. A high-security area. The second time they go in, it’s to look for a giant Hound that they KNOW Can’t. Be. There.

Because according to Sherlock, he just saw it running around in Dewar’s Hollow last night, and how? Can something exist BOTH in a state of locked-in-a-high-security-compound and running around freely wherever it wants? If he just saw it in Dewar’s Hollow, why look for it in Baskerville, this is like…. looking for someone in a top-secret Murder Prison Island when you know full well they were just now running around London.

For a minute I was distraught, thinking they’d always been writing these kind of terrible plot holes and we’d been overlooking them, seeing only what we wanted to see.

Then I remembered, Sherlock doesn’t think the Hound is at Baskerville at all! Of course he doesn’t, that wouldn’t make any damn sense. He thinks the Hound is a hallucination, that it doesn’t even really exist

….and of course, of course, he’s right.

(Honorable mention goes to the fact that they get into Baskerville because the security thinks Sherlock is Mycroft; they get into Sherrinford because security thinks Mycroft is Sherlock.)

[reynardinetrenau]

Curled up on the sofa with a blanket and a hot water bottle. Cat is obviously as invested in Hound of the Baskervilles as I am.

[victorianfantasywatson]

"There he sat, with his tweed suit and his American accent, in the corner of a prosaic railway-carriage, and yet as I looked at his dark and expressive face I felt more than ever how true a descendant he was of that long line of high-blooded, fiery, and masterful men. There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes." -- Dr. John Watson on Sir Henry Baskerville, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Henry, a normal-looking bloke in his late twenties," --Dr. John Watson on Henry Baskerville, The Hounds of Baskerville entry from John's blog I don't even know what the worst part about this is, that ACD Watson was so Gay, or that BBC John is so repressed, or.... "Henry was a "normal-looking bloke?" Really, John, you should become a professional author!" --Sherlock Holmes commenting on The Hounds of Baskerville blog post Oh, yeah, that's it, that's the worst part. The fact that BBC John is still attracted to Henry, he's just repressed about it (more! Repressed! Than ACD Watson was in 1902!!) and so John tries to hide his attraction (which is canon?! So the writers DO pay attention to canon gay details!??) by skimping on the description and Sherlock of course Notices and Calls Him Out Publicly on it... drawing our attention to it as well... drawing attention to the fact that John's attraction to men is being textually covered up in this show, and by John as unreliable narrator himself ... Yeah, I hate everything about this

[scrub456]

Inktober Day 29: Ominous

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Today was supposed to be "Aquatic," which I've already posted. Done with black ballpoint pen, sharpie, and water soluble Prismacolor pencils (used for water coloring) for @bluebellofbakerstreet 's Inktober prompts.