Whether the Current War comes out this Thanksgiving or in 2018, I can say with complete certainty that we are incredibly proud to be your fans. You spoke up against Weinstein when people with less on the line have remained silent.
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With love and respect,
Me
It continues to amaze me how amazing and united we are.
While this line is often quoted as showing how Sir Arthur did not care about how Sherlock Holmes was portrayed, it should be noted that this quote only came after William Gillette pressed Sir. Arthur on the matter. Initially Arthur Conan Doyle stipulated that Sherlock Holmes should not be portrayed as being romantically interested in a woman. He did not give Sherlock Holmes a female love interests and preferred that it remained so.
“Gillette read Conan Doyle’s script and asked permission to revise it. The author agreed, stipulating only that there be no love interest.”
Keep in mind that at the time that the telegram was written it was inconceivable that Holmes would even have the opportunity to ever marry a man.
The possibility of Holmes having a male love interest is not something that would have -ever- been written about, spoken of, or suggested because of the anti-lgbt culture engrained throughout society at the time. The co-dependant partnership of Holmes and Watson was the closest that could be achieved when it came to M/M ‘Love’ interest.
A male male relationship would NOT be referred to as a ‘love interest’. Dr. Watson could only ever be referred to as Holmes’ ‘partner’ and ‘friend’. Any reference to ‘love interests’ dealt with women by default. Sir Arthur was stating his disapproval of Holmes having a relationship with a woman.
This point is significant as it is further evidence regarding how it is adaptations that try to show Holmes as being straight and interested in a woman that have to bend the stories to do so, not the ones that show Holmes as having other inclinations. It is the -straight- adaptations that are deviating more from the canon stories and have to break canon when they try to push heteronormativity.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had written about having a preference that Holmes remained single and alone or living with Dr. John Watson then being romantically interested in a women.
Thank you for this @tendergingergirl! – in addition to the religious connotation of “vatican cameo” in ACD canon, we have an actual puppet, or a ventriloquist dummy materialized in the final minutes of TFP…
Which of course brings us all the way back to TGG…
But remember the twitter storm with Kermit the frog right before series 4 aired?
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