Posted on 07/28/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by 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.
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That would the Billy wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. It's recent, if you regard 1970 as recent. You must be as old as I am.
Well, this does put an amusing slant on some of the dialog in the stories. Doyle was fond of using the word "ejaculated" when an explanation burst forth from Watson. A line from narrator Watson would sometimes read "Great Scott!" I ejaculated. I guess the modern Watson would say "Great Scott, I ejaculated!".
As the West falls.
“there is very little that differentiates them from the monkeys at the zoo”
I am not a zoologist nor do I play one on the internet, however, I really don’t think that monkeys are totally focused on sex every waking minute. You, my friend, demean monkeys.
Very sick and very vocal minority.
If you want to kill the show, by all means, have it go gay.
Actually the show is quite good, and as they said it was a running gag because Holmes and Watson lived together and went everywhere together. But just as in the books Watson gets married and Holmes is attracted to a woman. If the plot is changed to make them queer it will be too bad as I and I'm sure many others will stop watching. There is little enough actual entertainment to be found without the queers being inserted for sympathy and social engineering.
sex or poo flinging I believe makes up the majority of their day
tho we test monkeys for their mental capacity... something no one bothers to do with fags or liberals
Is it really asking so much for people to stick with the story and stop putting in politics for the sake of politics?
Watson is already strongly straight. Holmes seems uninterested either way
I hope they don’t turn this into a gay pride series
I’m not familiar with that show. What was the title?
Yes, in a few cases it can work but the usual plot device of unconsumated sexual tension in series TV still rules
Great show. That would ruin it.
Yes, and they’ll probably want to remake Hawaii 5-0 and have McGarrett and Danno hook up. Sheesh.
It’s already British. Wouldn’t making it gay be redundant
> Im not familiar with that show. What was the title?
Chuck
It’s on NetFlix
I found an archive of the various radio adaptations a while back, but they admittedly got old, the same stories being reworked every 10 years or so up until the 1960s.
Little late in the series for that plot twist.
RE: fans urge BBC
I love the way they hide behind the word “fans”.
Out of the millions who watch the show.... how many such “fans” are there?
They almost ruined the new Dr. Who when they made Capt. Jack Harkness gay and more. Luckily, his sexuality kinda stayed a running joke and he left the show for a spinoff. Torchwood was fine as long as they continued the joke. As soon as it went explicit, the show tanked. They tried to revive the series but couldn’t stay away from the gay crap. It tanked again. The story lines didn’t need the crap and people just wouldn’t watch it.
The media and gay community are always telling us that gays represent 10 to 15% of the general population.
It is probably more like 2% yet they insinuate their disgusting lifestyle into everything.
Again, it is a complicit media that allows this to happen. Oh, yeah, and obammy.
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