The Sign Of Three

[poliphilo]

Sherlock Holmes is an inhuman calculating machine, right? Well, no, that's just what he's like on the outside. Underneath he's this misunderstood soul who feels his loneliness deeply and loves his buddy with a love that  is very wonderful, passing the love of women- and don't you just want to gather him up in your Cumberbitchy arms and reassure him and make it all better!

This isn't drama- it's fan-fiction.

Oh, and by the way, the mystery he was called on to solve last night was so preposterous in every way it would have disgraced Midsomer Murders- a show no-one takes seriously, though heaven knows why not; it's at least as funny as this, twice as gruesome and entirely free of sentiment.

Comments

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Homoerotic relationships are in vogue this year. Everybody wants to write some kind of love story between a same-sex couple... usually with no actual sex involved because that would be "just to icky" for most audiences to tolerate.

I haven't seen "Sherlock" in awhile, but the last time I saw it, it appeared that they were driving heavily towards one of these sexless emotionally tortured relationships.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Conan Doyle's Holmes is entirely sexless- and, frankly, I like him that way.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

I have read some queer theorists think that there is an implied relationship between Holmes and Watson that is just not expressed by the author. I think that it may be true on Watson's side, but Holmes seems like he is on the autism spectrum to me, and I'm not sure that he is able to respond to anyone's affections.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't buy it. Holmes never shows sexual interest in anybody, while Watson- who eventually marries- has quite an eye for the girls. Doyle was writing magazine fiction for money; he wasn't pushing some secret gay agenda.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I totally agree - he is above all sentimentality