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Make Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson gay lovers, fans urge BBC
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 28, 2014 | Gemma Mullin

Posted on 07/28/2014 7:45:23 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

We have really entered ‘Sodom’ haven’t we?


61 posted on 07/28/2014 10:14:43 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: AZHSer

I liked Capt. Jack’s charactor even though he was omnisexual. I never got into Torchwood, is it any good?


62 posted on 07/28/2014 10:24:51 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: jaydubya2

I watched Torchwood once...ONCE

They unfroze some guy from the past and immediately a member of the team sleeps with him.

I never thought of watching again


63 posted on 07/28/2014 10:26:03 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Sans-Culotte
"And in the original stories, Watson was married (to a woman)."

And he does marry a woman in the 3rd series. In fact, the woman who plays Mary Morstan (Amanda Abbington), is Martin Freeman's long-time girlfriend. She also plays Miss Mardle in the Mr. Selfridge series.

64 posted on 07/28/2014 10:38:25 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: C19fan

If they showed what would have happened to two faggots who “came out” in the late 1800s to early 1900s it could be efficacious.

“Tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail” would be the mildest.

It’d make for a mighty short season though, like one episode.


65 posted on 07/28/2014 10:49:00 AM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: p. henry

Holmes great but unrequited love was Irene Adler (scandal in Bohemia)


66 posted on 07/28/2014 10:50:52 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: dfwgator

No—Not mess with Icons like Holmes and Watson—Why do Gays want everyone Gay like them?


67 posted on 07/28/2014 12:14:46 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: jaydubya2

Loved Capt. Jack too as long as they kept it light. Torchwood was good but not great. It brought together some of the plotlines in Dr. Who so they made sense and showed what happened with Harkness after he got left on the space station. Basically a parallel plot to Who, after the destruction of the Torchwood tower by the Cybermen. Harkness formed a new Torchwood org. headquartered under Cardiff. Stopped watching when they couldn’t do an episode without some pretty graphic gay scenes. They weren’t important to the plot and could have done without. The first Torchwood is on Netflix if you want to check it out. Just be forwarned, after a few episodes its not child friendly. Torchwood-Miracle Day started out good also but then went back to the graphic stuff. It is no longer on Netflix.


68 posted on 07/28/2014 12:44:21 PM PDT by AZHSer
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To: C19fan

Hey, come on, don’t you wanna see actors on TV getting naked, slathering themselves in oil, and f***ing each other up the *ss?

Hey, let’s make Moriarty a pedophile.

No, better yet, let’s make him a transsexual and show her bl*wing a horse or two.

Now that’s entertainment!

And once we’ve done all that, there’s HG Wells, Jules Verne, Mark Twain...

Hey - how about Tom Sawyer does Huck Finn!


69 posted on 07/28/2014 1:33:30 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: C19fan

Didn’t Watson’s character get married last season?


70 posted on 07/28/2014 1:37:27 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: AZHSer

Thanks for the review. I might try a couple of episodes. I’m behind on my Who episodes so I need to get caught up with those first.


71 posted on 07/28/2014 2:14:08 PM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: C19fan

The world is mad! How can 2% of the population make this much noise? People are evil!


72 posted on 07/28/2014 2:16:12 PM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Yep, as somebody else said, will we see this happen with Batman and Robin????

dude, that's been the canon subtext since the 50s


73 posted on 07/28/2014 8:32:52 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

With the exception of Irene Adler (whom he admired mostly because she outfoxed him) and his violin, Holmes lived entirely in his head. When he lacked mental challenges, he resorted to cocaine for stimulation. He is one of the least sensual characters in fiction. To ascribe any sexuality, hetero or otherwise, would be entirely inconsistent with his character.


74 posted on 07/28/2014 9:24:08 PM PDT by p. henry
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To: Billthedrill; Calvin Locke

Watson was married more than once. He was quite a ladies man. Holmes was not romantically interested in Irene Adler. He just recognized her as someone her as someone who he didn’t outsmart.


75 posted on 07/28/2014 10:05:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Jimmy Valentine
I see no evidence in Scandal in Bohemia that Holmes had any romantic feelings for Irene Adler. He had admiration for her wit and intelligence.
76 posted on 07/28/2014 10:12:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: C19fan

It’s time for another episode of “This Is Why You Can’t Have Nice Things!”


77 posted on 07/28/2014 10:13:25 PM PDT by RichInOC ("ARMAGEDDON!!!" *BOOM!* "And the rodents' red glare...gerbils bursting in air...")
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To: nickcarraway
I guess it depends on whose adaptation of Holmes you're looking at at any giving moment.

Are you sure in the current BBC version, Holmes wasn't romantically interested in Adler? He did save her life.

In the current CBS take, Holmes' thought-murdered GF Adler turns out to be Moriarity.

FWIW, In a Rathbone/Bruce voiced [US] radio epi, the retired Holmes visiting retired Watson is the object of a successful con by Adler's adult daughter.

78 posted on 07/29/2014 7:01:14 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

I am only speaking of Holmes as written by Arthur Conan Doyle.


79 posted on 07/30/2014 12:15:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Calvin Locke

I heard the OTR radio show about Irene Adler’s daughter. Interesting.


80 posted on 07/30/2014 12:16:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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