Nobody can say they were just gay jokes taken too far cuz they just ain’t funny. The Battersea scene ain’t funny, not even a little. It’s tense and stays tense afterward. The Angelo’s scene ain’t funny except in an awkward way, and neither is the goodbye on the tarmac or the waterfall scene or the hug or the end of tsot, etc. etc.
All of the iconic Johnlock scenes happen during extremely dramatically tense moments when it doesn’t make sense to make a joke or ironically romanticize them. It’s not about lightening the mood, because it always makes it heavier.
Either it’s 100% romance or it’s a friendship that makes no sense.
If it was supposed to be funny, they would flirt lightly. These boys gaze intensely at one another, like, constantly (if either of them genuinely flirted on purpose, they would both probably pass out from all the honesty). The funny scenes are when they are both so stubborn about not realizing what they are to each other. The miscommunications and fast synchronizations and Sherlock not noticing John’s sarcasm and John barely pretending not to notice Sherlock’s ridiculousness and both of them completely not noticing everyone around them staring.
If it was supposed to define a Super Friendship of Brotherly Love by using romantic tropes, it would have resolution. There is no resolution to their interactions, just ramping tension.
Just look at the Train Car Named Desire scene in TEH. They are brutally honest for a second because John thinks they will die, then they both pull back into Britishness, freaked out. If it was just a Super Friendship, they’d end it more emotionally. Instead, the emotion gets stuffed back in so they don’t confess what they almost confessed.
This is all too obvious, but I felt like I had to get out why it still feels emotionally right to read it the way we did.
I guess that maybe-kinda serves as an answer re: what order the “I That Am Lost” verses go in. (See text around edge of reel. No idea how this is being treated in the scheme of official merch, but… sure, why not. It matches my best guess based on the in-episode evidence, so I’m gonna go with it.) I wonder if this means there’s a full recording out there?
More of my photoshoots at Sherlocked today. I got to have tea with Hudders in 221B! And at the group shoot with Steven Moffat he actually fangirled over my Tardis/WhoLocked wheelchair. It was so cool!!
The fruit of hundreds of hours of research, tramping London, photographing, screencapping and cursing PowerPoint, it is here!
The guide contains maps showing how to find every known BBC Sherlock location in London, with screencaps and text identifying where it featured, and contemporary photos to show what it looks like now. There are also some special sections such as how to follow the ASIP taxi chase in order, and area maps to help you devise local mini-tours if you like.
I (@pennypaperbrain) have lived in London for 20 years, and this guide grew out of showing fandom friends around, first the obvious places and then some not so obvious. Photography is by the indispensable @sincerely-chaos.
This is version 1 so I’m sure there are many improvements and refinements that can be made. Please email londonsherlocktour at gmail dot com if you have feedback, or squee. (You can also use tumblr of course, but tumblr eats asks). If you end up using the guide in London, it would also be particularly cool to have stories/photos to feature on this tumblr.
You can have me arrested, you can torture me, you can do anything you like with me, but nothing’s gonna prevent them from pulling the trigger. Your only three friends in the world will die unless… Unless I kill myself and complete your story.
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