myladylyssa:

gingerhermit:

sussexbound:

Don’t 100% agree with all her conclusions, but she makes a lot of great points.

It’s interesting that even non-shipper fans are noticing how the ‘no-homo’ shift has damaged the show. When your lead characters are so gay for each other that they can’t be allowed alone together without a chaperone but you insist they’re both super straight….you might be queerbaiting.

I really appreciated how she wrote this, rhetorically, because it really mirrors what S4 does and feels like, keeping Sherlock and John apart And being so OTT. TLD and TFP are so hard to accept rationally, whereas earlier you could more easily suspend disbelief.

I don’t believe the audience is meant to *really* see Irene as a serious love interest (because omg seriously) but the mentioning of her is definitely a no homo thing, especially since in that scene Sherlock can’t even truly rebut or speak because he lets it be about John. That they bring up Irene makes me see red. I want to believe that the audience would react to John saying this to be “omg John NO you idiot!” but I may be overestimating the audience.

What Went Wrong with Sherlock?