Tag: Queerbaiting

“Sherlock was never a love story and never will be…perhaps we took the joke too far.”

sherlockdramaturgy:

sussexbound:

ghislainem70:

Mofftiss at Cambridge Union Q &A, link here https://consultingdadtective.tumblr.com/post/156233780067/the-mofftiss-talk-in-cambridge

Apparently they never got their actors, directors, or other members of their production staff this memo.  

Nice they see this level of blatant queerbaiting a joke.

These men…  Arrogant.  Unrepentant.  I wash my hands of them.

“Perhaps we took the joke too far…”

You don’t say…

silentauroriamthereal:

kellpod:

abitnotgood:

if not johnlock, then What

They did this. They did all of this, and then acted shocked and frustrated when we started asking about their relationship.

News flash, Mofftiss, if you’re not going to give us a fucking tree, then DON’T FUCKING PLANT THE SEED.

Queerbaiting And Other Fun Games For the Wealthy Privileged: By Steven Unfamiliar With The Concept of Emotional Fall-Out and the Resolution Thereof Moffat and Mark Traitor to His Own Community Gatiss

glassofgaytea:

softjlc:

remember that mark gatiss quote that went something like ‘’the day we have a detective show about a guy who solves crimes for an hour, then goes home where his husband is waiting for him, is the day we’ve achieved something’’. MARK MY GUY YOU LITERALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS EXACTLY AND YOU JUST DIDN’T? 

instead he deliberately played with homoerotic subtext/text and made it into something for homophobes to laugh at. he talks about achieving equality when he is literally part of the problem keeping us from that

impatient14:

sussexbound:

cupidford:

the words John and Sherlock wanted to say but never could were placed on a coffin and then destroyed to smithereens by Sherlock himself, good times

And he was forced to give those words to a woman instead. As a gay man he was forced to say I love you to a woman and never allowed to say it to the man he really loved.

Okay but this is too on the nose to be something they would legitimately present as canon. Everything has been far too pointed in this show, the explit queerness of it AND the explicit forced heterosexuality. This scene was the physical embodiment of what happens when you force heterosexuality on people. Its hurts everyone involved. Molly (despite having been let down both harshly and gently multiple times) loves Sherlock, but as a gay man he can not love her in the same way. When he is forced to, it destroys them both. Its tragic, but its real. I think thats what they were purposely trying to show.

astudyinrose:

sherlockfuckyeah:

astudyinrose:

asherlockstudy:

sherlockdramaturgy:

“And equally, I find flirting with the homoeroticism in Sherlock much more interesting.” Mark Gatiss

So thanks for the confirmation that we really weren’t seeing things all along.

Mark Gatiss confirming he was queerbaiting all along

@dammitsully

SHITHEAD

Right, so just for context, that quote is from the October 2010 issue of Buzz magazine and here is the full quote in its entirety:

Despite this lack of public awareness, being part of the gay community is clearly important to Gatiss:

“The older I get the more I want to give something back. I mean, I keep meaning to do something.” When asked if he’d be interested in making a series about gay issues, his response was enlightening:

“No, I don’t think I’d make a kind of gay programme. It’s much more interesting when it’s not about a single issue. And equally, I find flirting with the homoeroticism in Sherlock much more interesting. Of course this reflects the grand picture of everyone’s strange make-up; there are good gay people and bad gay people. I wouldn’t like to make an issue film around the culture of being gay.”

The thing is, I get what he means, in a way. Because, yes, “flirting with the homoeroticism” in Sherlock is interesting and makes for fantastic telly. Personally, I’d still say his intentions were mostly good, he just monumentally bollixed the execution. 

Cool motive. Still queerbaiting.