alexxphoenix42:

gloriascott93:

jellylovesfaith:

There more I think about, the more what Steven, Mark, Ben, Martin, Amanda, Loo say – what any of them say – don’t matter. Just like what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said didn’t matter. 

Sherlock Holmes was a never ending nightmare for ACD. One he desperately wanted to get rid of. From his overall attitude towards the character, it comes off as if he genuinely hated everything to do with Holmes.

And yet he wrote through the eyes of someone who absolutely, unwaveringly and without any reservation adores Sherlock Holmes. John Watson’s love for Sherlock Holmes shines through every line of the stories and it is so obvious. Whether you choose to see it as romantic love or platonic love is up to you but it is undeniable that Watson loves his Holmes very deeply – in a way most of us will never be fortunate to experience. ACD could have easily made Watson less enamored of Holmes in his later work. He could have easily made Holmes seem unlikable even to Watson and yet no matter how much ACD might have disliked Holmes, he wrote a character who will adore Holmes forever. This is why I think the actual content – what it written and what is shown – matters a whole lot more than whatever the creators of the content say.

Steven and Mark say that they never intended for Sherlock and John to be in a relationship. But anyone with eyes can see the very obvious hints and subtext peppered through out the show. We see two characters desperately in love with each other and that is how I will always see the Sherlock and John from Sherlock. 

ACD thoroughly disliked Holmes and yet gave us a character who adores every fiber of Holmes.

Moffat and Gatiss kept denying the presence of a love story and yet they gave us two characters who are unconditionally in love with each other.

Bottom line is, what is written and what is shown, is far more important than what the creators think or say. 

Flawless.

Sometimes the characters themselves speak, and demand to be known.