{"id":224918,"date":"2014-03-01T18:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T18:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/01\/deducingbbcsherlock-cant-two-guys-just-have-a\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:42:34","slug":"deducingbbcsherlock-cant-two-guys-just-have-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/01\/deducingbbcsherlock-cant-two-guys-just-have-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-224918 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/01\/deducingbbcsherlock-cant-two-guys-just-have-a\/attachment\/224919\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n14jhgWn611ts5583o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n14jhgWn611ts5583o10_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n14jhgWn611ts5583o10_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deducingbbcsherlock.tumblr.com\/post\/77026120302\/cant-two-guys-just-have-a-close-platonic\" target=\"_blank\">deducingbbcsherlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Can\u2019t two guys just have a close, platonic love\/friendship?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so sick of hearing this question. As if books, shows, and films are flooded with homosexual relationships and why can\u2019t we just have a male friendship story for once, when in reality we live in a world of bromances and queerbaiting and it\u2019s about time someone did something\u00a0<em>different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying Johnlock is definitely endgame. Personally, I believe\/hope it is, but I can\u2019t predict what the writers will do. But if you think the idea of these two characters realizing that they have romantic and\/or sexual feelings for one another is a joke,\u00a0<em>we have a serious problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s recap where we are here at the start of His Last Vow. Sherlock and John have acknowledged that they are one another\u2019s best friends, and that they love one another. Up until the wedding, they had several months of solving cases together. Sherlock had his best friend and blogger. John had his best friend, all the crime and danger a growing boy needs, and he was engaged to the woman he loved. Things couldn\u2019t have been better for either of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet Sherlock leaves the reception early and they don\u2019t speak for a month.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s John, lying in bed with his pregnant wife, dreaming of the war he misses (the exact dream he had in the pilot, this is called regression). And then the war fades, and Sherlock walks into his head. Ask him if he wants to see some more.\u00a0<em>Oh god, yes.\u00a0<\/em>(I know I know, he\u2019s talking about \u201c<em>the game.\u201d<\/em> Good thing subtext isn\u2019t a thing that exists and writers aren\u2019t well aware of how and when they use it.)<\/p>\n<p>John throws off his wife\u2019s hand off and sits up, Sherlock\u2019s face still clear in his mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John loves Mary. John is happy they are expecting a baby. John hasn\u2019t seen his best friend in a few weeks (I\u2019m not counting the honeymoon, it\u2019s not like he expected to spend time with him then). So could someone please tell me how to interpret this scene in any way other than\u00a0<em>John needs\/wants something from Sherlock that he is not getting.\u00a0<\/em>Could someone please tell me how this opening scene is indicative of a strong\u00a0<em>platonic<\/em> friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because I\u2019ve got news for you. Sherlock and John\u2019s superstrong friendship was established loud and clear in TSoT, to the audience and to one another. Up until Sherlock makes his vow during the reception, that episode showed us two characters with everything they could want. Sherlock has friends now, and a\u00a0<em>best<\/em> friend to solve crimes with. John has Sherlock back, and after all his failed relationships back in season one, he\u2019s marrying a fantastic woman that gets along great with Sherlock (and that\u2019s certainly a first).<\/p>\n<p>But neither are happy at the start of HLV.\u00a0<strong><em>And there are no more relationship revelations for these two to have except for THE one.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I find it funny that I get anon hate on my johnlock metas saying I\u2019m \u201ctrying too hard\u201d or coming up with \u201ctortured metaphors\u201d when I\u2019d have to work so, so much harder to come up with any other interpretation of this show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deducingbbcsherlock: &ldquo;Can\u2019t two guys just have a close, platonic love\/friendship?&rdquo; I\u2019m so sick of hearing this question. As if books, shows, and films are flooded with homosexual relationships and why can\u2019t we just have a male friendship story for once, when in reality we live in a world of bromances and queerbaiting and it\u2019s about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/01\/deducingbbcsherlock-cant-two-guys-just-have-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,129,1810,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224929,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224918\/revisions\/224929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}