We all know that the scene in HLV where John displays his totally platonic happiness for his bro Sherl hooking up with hot babe from his wedding is 1000% more green than it has any right to be.
But really though, this is Jealous John at its finest. The color metaphor is painfully obvious. Green with envy. The already green things in the flat seem to stand out even more, while some things that aren’t green at all appear to be.
The door appears yellow-green and the wallpaper is green. Acid green.
Here again, you can see the wallpaper is green.
The thing is, though, is that it’s not green at all. It’s blue.
At Sherlocked Con this weekend I went over to Arwel’s tabel to check out the wallpaper, and they had some squares of it. It is really very blue. In this gif when he says “Higgins?” you can see the wallpaper and how blue it is.
They would have to VERY intentionally make it green. I asked one of the guys there where in the flat it was used, and he said in the hallway by the bathroom. I pointed out this scene in HLV, and he said that was the decision of the lighting director. As we know, everything in this show is deliberate. The amount of work that has to go into an incredibly short amount of time means that every decision has to count. They wouldn’t go through the trouble of bathing that hallway in yellow light for nothing. In short, Jealous John is canon and they want us all to know that.
john and sherlock have never been allowed to be canonically gay in over 100 years and i think it’s about time we as a fandom collectively take our heads out of our asses and acknowledge that the stories have been cursed. bitter at his famous detective’s continued success, arthur conan doyle used his dying breath to curse his stories so that john and sherlock’s love may never come to fruition. “you may marry him, murder him, or do whatever you like with him” was a TAUNT, because he KNEW that there would be ONE THING you could NEVER DO. THIS IS WHY BILLY WILDER’S MOVIE WENT OFF THE RAILS, WHY SHERLOCK KEEPS THE TAPE RECORDING IN SHACKLEFORD HOLMES, WHY EVERYTHING!!!!!! WE MUST BREAK THE CURSE!!!!!!!! WE MUST SET THINGS RIGHT!!!!! JOHN AND SHERLOCK MUST FINALLY BE ALLOWED PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
