Did you watch Last weekend’s premiere of Sherlock, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman? We don’t want to spoil it for you if you haven’t seen it yet, but let’s just say Sherlock and Watson share a pretty steamy kiss. (LOL, JK, no, they don’t.)
Of course, Sherlock’s sexual orientation has been much discussed long before the latest BBC series arrived. But the show certainly isn’t reluctant about showing two men show share a close emotional bond, if Sherlock’s mechanisms can be described as “emotion.”
Is this show homoerotic? Well, it’s certainly pretty homo-ish, what with Cumberbatch and Freeman playing a pretty intense bromance. Show creator Steven Moffat once said of the pair, “They are just incredibly good friends. If Sherlock is gay, and who knows if he is, then I don’t think he fancies John,” although he’s certainly capable of jealous when his pal’s attention strays toward the opposite sex.
In other words, the “erotic” aspect may be in the eye of the beholder. So let’s behold!
Here’s what Martin Freeman had to say about their characters: “There are a lot of people hoping that our characters are rampantly at it. If you want to think that they are secretly at it, then you can, but we’ve never played anything like that.”
Okay, fine. It may not be intentionally there, but he just gave us all permission to insert our own subtext. And we do love a good insertion.
Remember when they were moving in and Mrs. Hudson was like “there’s another bedroom upstairs … if you’ll be needing two bedrooms.”
Wink, Wink.
And in Season 1 when Sherlock was “flattered” by what he perceived to be Watson’s “interest”?
Wink, Wink.
And then there was the time Watson got back from the gym, and he was all sweaty because he didn’t have time to shower, and Sherlock made some pithy remark that bothered Watson so he seized Sherlock and threw him over his knee and started spanking him, and Sherlock could only just squirm and whine and his butt got all red, and then Watson made Sherlock lick his pits? (That happens later in the new season. You haven’t seen it yet. Trust us.)
For reasons that are not entirely clear to us, fantasies involving Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have become strangely popular in China. Watson is known as “Peanut,” a pun on the phonetic quality of his name in Chinese, and Cumberbatch’s nickname is “Curly Fu.”
If you like, you can go waaaaaaay down the rabbit-hole of gay subtext with “Decoding the Subtext,” an unbelievably extensive analysis of queerness in the original books. A sample:
This is the second occasion we have had been witness to Holmes waking Watson; only this time he has not bothered to dress, something that, in Victorian times, would have been considered quite indecent.
Okay, this really seems like grasping at straws. Why not just put it all out in the open with some really raunchy slash?
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