Tbh it’s quite clear the writers didn’t really know what they were doing. They remind me of the first times I experimented with cooking with spices. I kept adding this and that, just for the thrill of it, and sometimes the meal was delicious… but others it was inedible.
Not only is it clear that the scripts are not the “final versions,” I would also just like to remind everyone, for the hundred thousandth time, once and for all, that Martin and Ben are terrific actors but have absolutely no power to overrule a script. They can ad-lib a line here and there, especially a cute joke (”Am I the current King of England?”), but they cannot change the meaning of the entire show on their own.
The reason the scenes in the show differ from the scenes in the script is because the script was changed by Moffat and Gatiss. Period.
It defies belief to think that Martin and Ben could take it upon themselves to tell a different story than the one the showrunners were telling and have the showrunners just go along with it, informing their directors and editors to just
*sigh* go ahead and do what Ben and Martin want, they’re the ones really in charge. Yes, there has been a history of actors “secretly” playing characters as gay, but that doesn’t extend to changing the dialogue in multiple scenes to suit their own ideas.
If you are a TJLCer and you honestly believe that Ben and Martin conjured up Johnlock all on their own, then how do you explain the “oh my god” and “my husband was just the same” appearing in the ASiP script, “bathed in starlight” appearing in the TGG script, the subtext in the script throughout the whole show, the subtext in the visuals throughout the whole show (including Sherlock’s flashbacks to ASiP!John in TLD), the subtext in the music throughout the whole show, and the fact that they apparently both decided to abandon this plan mere days after forcing yet another aborted love confession onto their weak, pushover showrunners at the end of TLD? If this was an actor-led coup that required the cooperation of the editors, directors, cinematographers, lighting directors, production designer, costume/hair/make-up team, and composers, then why didn’t it succeed? Why no romantic John-in-a-blanket scene?
I’m honestly confused as to why TJLC not only throws out seven years of consistent evidence, some of which it just got its hands on yesterday, just because a clearly incomplete, non-final script has surfaced, but has also embraced the long-debunked idea that Moffat and Gatiss have no partnership with their actors with allows for the exchange of ideas in both directions (Martin deciding to replace a line with a look, which the showrunners obviously approve of, because they’ve spoken about it with admiration; Moffat and Gatiss deciding to tell the actors to do something that they haven’t written into the script, which the showrunners have…also acknowledged that they do).
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