[ SECRET POST #4265 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4265 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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05. [SPOILERS for Elementary season 6]



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06. [SPOILERS for Suspiria]



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[fscom]

05. [SPOILERS for Elementary season 6]
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[(Anonymous)]

THAT SUIT! That suit. That. Suit.

[(Anonymous)]

Joan's outfits have been amaaaaazing this season. So many tailored suits!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in love with the coat she's been wearing recently.

[(Anonymous)]

RIGHT? Gimme!

[(Anonymous)]

well,

"wanting to wear the suit myself" wasn't actually what i had in mind but that's a very valid belief as well, go off

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, both reasons of admiration are valid. Lucy Liu is very attractive.

[(Anonymous)]

Why have you been deadset against it? It makes sense to me if you don't ship it because of lack of chemistry/etc, whatever people see in a ship, but to go in thinking, "I don't want to see these people together ever," before experiencing the media makes no sense to me.

[silverr]

Not OP, but for it it's because portrayals of genuine male-female friendship without UST are fairly rare. I like seeing something new on screen.

[(Anonymous)]

Which is fair enough for this iteration, but OP said they're against Sherlock/John in general, not just in this specific instance.

[silverr]

Ah, sorry, you're right, I did miss that opening statement (though I don't ship canonical Holmes/Watson either :p). I paid more attention to the picture and the tag of the secret.

ETA: fwiw, I also like portrayals of m/m unshakeable friendship as well sometimes. IMO, relationships of mutual affection and respect aren't necessarily inferior or less intense than relationships with romantic or sexual elements.)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Tastes differ. I like my Holmes and Watson to be platonic partners, not romantic partners. I enjoy seeing their business partnership built upon friendship rather than romance, and it doesn't matter who's playing those roles.

[(Anonymous)]

They might really like ace Holmes, as he appears to be so in the original stories. I was pretty deadset against it too, but I have (very rarely) run into a fic that makes it work for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I am 100% down with ace Holmes, because that interpretation fits the ACD version best, IMO. I guess I should clarify... I'm not sure that ACD Holmes was asexual, but it seemed to me like he preferred to live his life without the distraction of romance and marriage. In that time period, that pretty much cut back on your sex life unless you visited prostitutes or had a discreet affair with a married woman/widow, neither of which really seems in character.

[deird1]

Sure, but there’s two different things there. Elementary’s Sherlock is definitely not asexual - but you could certainly say he prefers to live his life without the distraction of romance and marriage. Is it the attitude you find important, or the lack of sex?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't ship Holmes/Watson in the ACD canon. In fact, I never shipped them in any form until Sherlock came along and that's the only time I've shipped them to-date. Still, given how different various adaptations and derivative works can be and how the characters and their relationship are not always portrayed the same way, I'm not going to maintain any kind of strict policy on it and I agree it's weird to do so. Still, I can understand how not shipping them in the original canon might make shipping other versions of them too much of a turn-off.

He's been really sweet this season (in his own Sherlock way).

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure, given the way this season was scheduled on CBS, everyone on the show was expecting this to be the farewell season. I feel like they have been trying to make sure the audience knows how much Sherlock values the people around him (it's definitely working) and they were sort of headed towards making sure everybody was on solid ground at the end and there weren't any hanging relationship threads.

Re: He's been really sweet this season (in his own Sherlock way).

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't even think of that possibility, but it makes sense! I'm glad the show's been renewed, though. IMO it's gotten better over time and this season is my favorite so far. I'd hate to see it cancelled.

Re: He's been really sweet this season (in his own Sherlock way).

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm glad it's been renewed, too. And I agree it has gotten better, it has definitely been appointment TV for me this summer. I do sort of wish we got to see some of the build up to the mysteries that are basically just asides at the beginning before the main mystery for the episode, though, they sound really interesting.

Re: He's been really sweet this season (in his own Sherlock way).

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but I love those asides and how they're callbacks to how ACD canon did that from time to time. Remember the Giant Rat of Sumatra? This season has really been a lot more connected to canon and I'm digging it.

[(Anonymous)]

I love their relationship. They're always having honest conversations about their feelings and generally being so open with each other. It's why I don't ship them, actually, because unlike a lot of other potential pairings in media, it's harder to suspend disbelief that that they are secretly pining for each other or just hadn't realized how much they care about each other until a crisis moment.

That said, I wouldn't be completely opposed to them getting together - as long as they keep on being their wonderful selves, I don't care - but for me, the romantic tension just isn't there.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a really good point. If one of them did develop feelings for the other, it's hard to imagine many scenarios where it wouldn't come up for discussion.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I'm with you. I've always been so intent on their relationship remaining platonic, plus I don't really like kids and (usually) have no desire to see them on shows I watch, but man. Something about this season...I'm suddenly shipping them hard and don't at all mind the possibility of a kid if they raise it together.