dude, that's been the canon subtext since the 50s
Posted on 07/28/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by C19fan
The creator of BBC TV series Sherlock has been inundated with fan mail urging him to make the detective and Dr Watson gay lovers. Mark Gatiss admitted he had been overwhelmed with explicit drawings and plotline ideas ahead of the new series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, due late next year. It follows a running joke in the show which hints the pair might be closer than friends, especially by landlady Mrs Hudson, played by Una Stubbs, 77, who often makes references to their sexuality.
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We have really entered ‘Sodom’ haven’t we?
I liked Capt. Jack’s charactor even though he was omnisexual. I never got into Torchwood, is it any good?
I watched Torchwood once...ONCE
They unfroze some guy from the past and immediately a member of the team sleeps with him.
I never thought of watching again
And he does marry a woman in the 3rd series. In fact, the woman who plays Mary Morstan (Amanda Abbington), is Martin Freeman's long-time girlfriend. She also plays Miss Mardle in the Mr. Selfridge series.
If they showed what would have happened to two faggots who “came out” in the late 1800s to early 1900s it could be efficacious.
“Tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail” would be the mildest.
It’d make for a mighty short season though, like one episode.
Holmes great but unrequited love was Irene Adler (scandal in Bohemia)
No—Not mess with Icons like Holmes and Watson—Why do Gays want everyone Gay like them?
Loved Capt. Jack too as long as they kept it light. Torchwood was good but not great. It brought together some of the plotlines in Dr. Who so they made sense and showed what happened with Harkness after he got left on the space station. Basically a parallel plot to Who, after the destruction of the Torchwood tower by the Cybermen. Harkness formed a new Torchwood org. headquartered under Cardiff. Stopped watching when they couldn’t do an episode without some pretty graphic gay scenes. They weren’t important to the plot and could have done without. The first Torchwood is on Netflix if you want to check it out. Just be forwarned, after a few episodes its not child friendly. Torchwood-Miracle Day started out good also but then went back to the graphic stuff. It is no longer on Netflix.
Hey, come on, don’t you wanna see actors on TV getting naked, slathering themselves in oil, and f***ing each other up the *ss?
Hey, let’s make Moriarty a pedophile.
No, better yet, let’s make him a transsexual and show her bl*wing a horse or two.
Now that’s entertainment!
And once we’ve done all that, there’s HG Wells, Jules Verne, Mark Twain...
Hey - how about Tom Sawyer does Huck Finn!
Didn’t Watson’s character get married last season?
Thanks for the review. I might try a couple of episodes. I’m behind on my Who episodes so I need to get caught up with those first.
The world is mad! How can 2% of the population make this much noise? People are evil!
dude, that's been the canon subtext since the 50s
With the exception of Irene Adler (whom he admired mostly because she outfoxed him) and his violin, Holmes lived entirely in his head. When he lacked mental challenges, he resorted to cocaine for stimulation. He is one of the least sensual characters in fiction. To ascribe any sexuality, hetero or otherwise, would be entirely inconsistent with his character.
Watson was married more than once. He was quite a ladies man. Holmes was not romantically interested in Irene Adler. He just recognized her as someone her as someone who he didn’t outsmart.
It’s time for another episode of “This Is Why You Can’t Have Nice Things!”
Are you sure in the current BBC version, Holmes wasn't romantically interested in Adler? He did save her life.
In the current CBS take, Holmes' thought-murdered GF Adler turns out to be Moriarity.
FWIW, In a Rathbone/Bruce voiced [US] radio epi, the retired Holmes visiting retired Watson is the object of a successful con by Adler's adult daughter.
I am only speaking of Holmes as written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
I heard the OTR radio show about Irene Adler’s daughter. Interesting.
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