{"id":146056,"date":"2015-07-11T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T18:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/11\/what-do-you-mean-by-unreliable-narrator-about\/"},"modified":"2015-07-11T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T18:41:51","slug":"what-do-you-mean-by-unreliable-narrator-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/11\/what-do-you-mean-by-unreliable-narrator-about\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY “UNRELIABLE NARRATOR” ABOUT JOHN??"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the years there has been much conjecture by fans of the original ACD Holmes stories about how much of what John Watson wrote down actually happened exactly as he wrote it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Many people believe that especially when it came to Holmes and Watson\u2019s relationship, the stories that Watson published for public consumption were very sparse on details, or would change things that could possible incriminate them (homosexuality was illegal at the time, and in 1895, the year Mark Gatiss confirmed most of The Special was set, the author Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for just such a thing).<\/p>\n

Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have also talked about this in interviews, this theory that not everything John puts in print can\u2019t be relied upon as accurate.<\/p>\n

So in the clip they just released, we see a lot of focus on how John left Sherlock out of The Hound of the Baskervilles, even though it sounded like he featured more in the tale in reality, then what John\u2019s story would lead you to believe. \u00a0Mrs. Hudson bemoaned how John had characterised her, and John mentions that the illustrator is to blame for people thinking that their rooms are dingy and that John has a moustache. \u00a0(I liked that part, because there is a certain level of gay subtext surrounding moustaches, and here we have, again, people making assumptions about John and Sherlock\u2019s relationship. \u00a0\u2018The Illustrator\u2019 is drawing John as moustached [gay], and so now John\u2019s just like\u2013fine, if that\u2019s what you think here!)<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026 \u00a0That\u2019s what I meant by John as unreliable narrator. \u00a0That did prattle on. \u00a0My apologies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though, you know\u2026 The moustache might also be symbolic of a\u00a0\u2018beard\u2019. \u00a0So the illustrator draws john as strait, and now he\u2019s had to act straight just so the public will recognise him, but he\u2019s never been straight.<\/b><\/p>\n

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/b><\/p>\n

Because Sherlock prefers him clean shaven!<\/b><\/p>\n

The moustache is john\u2019s ability to pass as straight, but like that means that in the special it is just something he has had to\u00a0\u2018put on\u2019 to be acceptable to the general public. \u00a0But in reality, he\u2019s not that. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

OMG!<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to cry. \u00a0Victorian John is full on embracing of his same-sex attraction, and he only puts on the moustache (\u2019beard\u2019) because Victorian homophobic society is forcing him to!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

you were fuckin told and you didn\u2019t fuckin listen (not u sussexbound \ud83d\udc97)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

graceebooks: sussexbound: sussexbound: Over the years there has been much conjecture by fans of the original ACD Holmes stories about how much of what John Watson wrote down actually happened exactly as he wrote it. \u00a0 Many people believe that especially when it came to Holmes and Watson\u2019s relationship, the stories that Watson published for … <\/p>\n

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