Make Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson gay lovers, fans urge BBC

UK Daily Mail ^ | July 28, 2014 | Gemma Mullin

[C19fan]

The creator of BBC TV series Sherlock has been inundated with fan mail urging him to make the detective and Dr Watson gay lovers. Mark Gatiss admitted he had been overwhelmed with explicit drawings and plotline ideas ahead of the new series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, due late next year. It follows a running joke in the show which hints the pair might be closer than friends, especially by landlady Mrs Hudson, played by Una Stubbs, 77, who often makes references to their sexuality.

[C19fan]

Don't gays gets tired of their sexuality dominating every aspect of their lives?

[Yorlik803]

Its all they have. Sad and sick that they are they feel the need to push acceptance on everyone because they know deep down that what they are doing in wrong.

[Politicalkiddo]

Gross. Good thing I don’t watch this show.

[SkyDancer]

Sick. Just sickening how gays want everything their way but don’t you dare question them because they’ll cry and call it gay bashing.

[sten]

it’s all they are. they define themselves by their sexual acts. there is very little that differentiates them from the monkeys at the zoo

this is why the world has always rejected them

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Sheesh, they can’t leave anything alone.

Next thing you know they’ll be casting aspersions on Batman and Robin.

[dfwgator]

What, maybe two letters were sent asking for this?

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s a sick, sick world out there, Toto. Everybody wants to be a sexual deviant. A freak.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The show is phenomenal and this idea makes no sense because it would kill one of the running jokes that has been in almost all nine episodes.

They are not gay. And Watson has said that emphatically. He’s married now, so I don’t know what “fans” are asking for him and Holmes to turn gay.

Yes I do. “Fans” who have never seen the show or whose own choices of sexual expression have to be validated by TV characters making the same choices.

[VanDeKoik]

The show has a major following among the gay-obsessed loonbags hipsters on Tumblr.

This is likely where this stupidity originates.

[dalebert]

according to gays every historical figure real or fiction was gay since they are no longer here to deny it.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Sherlick and Watscome.

[Resolute Conservative]

BBC? (...snickering...)

[Resettozero]

Gross. Good thing I don’t watch this show.

You oughta try it if you haven't. First two seasons are on Netflix. Start at the beginning (a very good place to start).

That said, one (or both) of the main actors have always pushed against the idea. It's part of Watson's persona ("He's not my boyfriend. Don't publish that!")

Also, BBC needs the main actors more than they need the BBC (or PBS) now.

[Resettozero]

Gross. Good thing I don’t watch this show.

You oughta try it if you haven't. First two seasons are on Netflix. Start at the beginning (a very good place to start).

That said, one (or both) of the main actors have always pushed against the idea. It's part of Watson's persona ("He's not my boyfriend. Don't publish that!")

Also, BBC needs the main actors more than they need the BBC (or PBS) now.

[dfwgator]

Like with the Lesbos and Xena.

[Lorianne]

It is a very good show.

It is some fans (questionable how many) who are supposedly asking for this plot change.

I don’t see how it would help the show at all. Even in other such shows if a heterosexual couple get together the show usually goes downhill from there. Even if the characters were gay (which they are not) the plot device of sexual tension between main characters that applies to heterosexual situations would still apply. It would ruin the show for that reason alone.

[IYAS9YAS]

Gross. Good thing I don’t watch this show.

It's actually a pretty decent show. But if they go that route, I'll never watch another episode.

[p. henry]

Recently I reread the complete Sherlock. The notion that Sherlock and Watson were gay lover is absurd and finds no basis in Conan Doyle’s work.

[Resettozero]

The show has a major following among the gay-obsessed loonbags hipsters on Tumblr.

I could have gone happily the rest of my life without knowing that.

I like the series very much so far but have to watch with closed captioning on. Brits, you know.