Mark Gatiss about Johnlock (and TJLC):
“Question: ‘Did you at any point have to resist the temptation of Sherlock and Watson being gay?’
Mark: ‘It’s not a temptation [screams of ‘Johnlock’ from the crowd]…I feel very strongly about this, the trouble is, when you make a successful show of any kind, people then feel that it should…
“but he chooses like Mycroft to remove them from his life.”
Didnt MG read his script for TEH? You know, where sherlock is trying to convince mycroft that it’s good / better to have feelings for people? Or what about the entire TSoT? The ENTIRE thing? The sherlock gatiss describes here would’ve just wished John well and gone to find more cases and not bothered with best man speeches, napkin folding, and so on.
Like, I honestly don’t get it. I don’t believe the tj*c “lies” thing because I seriously have no idea what they’d hope to gain by being so firm about it not happening if its going to happen. But why talk about sherlock’s character in a way that contradicts all of series 3? Is MG also pretending that series didnt happen??
No, I actually think he’s explaining s3 really well: “That doesn’t mean he is not capable of feeling them. It just means he actually tries to remove them cos he knows they’ll mess him up, they’ll mess up his work.” Sherlock tries to remove them from his life, but he fails, and yep, it messes up his work. The softer, more emotional Sherlock overlooks obvious deductions (“Liar” Mary), lets the voice of feeling literally intrude on his process (“Jealous?”), and fucks up royally with Magnussen. It seems s3 is one long lesson in the price of emotions. Don’t get me wrong—it’s a price he’s willing to pay, because he loves John. But it’s very, very costly.
I don’t think that what he’s saying here contradicts s3. It’s absolutely true that the visual rhetoric of the series is romantic, at times erotic, but this just doesn’t have to denote genital sex. (My own read has always been that Sherlock’s sapiosexual, that he gets off on knowledge, so that knowing other people, understanding them the way he comes to understand John, is the ultimate intimacy.)
But look, we do not need Gatiss’ permission to ship these two, or to find their interactions erotic, or be moved/get off on the idea of them together. Just because it’s not canon doesn’t mean it’s not real, if by “real” we mean meaningful, beautiful, and true. Not all truths are literal facts. What else is fiction for?
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