{"id":96233,"date":"2016-06-19T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/19\/closeted-john-watson-and-the-introduction-of-bbc\/"},"modified":"2016-06-19T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:56:23","slug":"closeted-john-watson-and-the-introduction-of-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/19\/closeted-john-watson-and-the-introduction-of-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Closeted John Watson and the Introduction of BBC Sherlock\u2019s Queer Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/you-keep-me-right-jw.tumblr.com\/post\/127096361240\" target=\"_blank\">you-keep-me-right-jw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/0a6a081d88ddb9a9b06b3340c188085a\/tumblr_inline_ntal3du1qK1sxoqpa_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>In ASIP, John Watson is shown in front of a line of (closed) closets while talking about his trust issues to his therapist Ella, reading her writing upside down. Symbolism is strong in <i>Sherlock<\/i>. And the colour of John\u2019s jumper even coordinates with the closet doors\u2019 wallpaper. In other words (or in another upside down reading), John is coded as a closeted man! We then hear the <i>Sherlock<\/i> opening titles which combine John\u2019s chords with Sherlock\u2019s theme, confirmed to be of a \u201cslightly off-kilter quality\u201d by Mark Gatiss himself. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/740cb1452fb320fe295f5d4c76cdfba8\/tumblr_inline_ntamlf3CVa1sxoqpa_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Our very first look at Sherlock is upside down, referencing the earlier scene in Ella\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Upside down\u2019 and \u2018off-kilter\u2019 are synonymous for \u2018queer\u2019. A connection is drawn from John Watson to Sherlock Holmes that literally and figuratively spells it out: QUEER. That\u2019s the theme of the show. We were told\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you-keep-me-right-jw: In ASIP, John Watson is shown in front of a line of (closed) closets while talking about his trust issues to his therapist Ella, reading her writing upside down. Symbolism is strong in Sherlock. And the colour of John\u2019s jumper even coordinates with the closet doors\u2019 wallpaper. In other words (or in another upside &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/19\/closeted-john-watson-and-the-introduction-of-bbc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Closeted John Watson and the Introduction of BBC Sherlock\u2019s Queer Theme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11947,129,12092,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96233"}],"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=96233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}