We’re going to get textually confirmed, passionately snogging Johnlock. Everyone knows this. We’re going to get it. But I don’t think it’s going to be soon. I know that everyone thinks we’ll get Johnlock in the season four finale and then a season of consulting husbands, but I don’t think we can. Stick with me.
(Without a kiss on the mouth, no matter what Sherlock or John say, including the words “I love you,” some people will still seeit as platonic. Therefore, I’m determining “canon Johnlock” to be the first kiss: the point where absolutely no one can deny it anymore.)
There is so much miscommunication between them, I don’t think it can be resolved in the number of episodes we have until the S4 finale.
Honestly, I think it can barely be resolved by some time in S5. It’s not just “miscommunication;” it’s miscommunication that’s been ingrained in their natures.
like this is so devastating, like he’s told himself over and over “he doesn’t feel things that way”, and it’s always been a sort of source of comfort for him, “it’s not ME, he doesn’t feel that way about ANYBODY”, but then it did seem like he felt that way about someone and it hurt so much, but then it was all a ruse, it was all fake, John can never trust anything Sherlock says ever again, if you think he’s just going to believe it when Sherlock either confesses or kisses him or whatever in the Three Garridebs scenario, nO HE IS NOT
BECAUSE OF THIS
I think what “The Three Garridebs” is going to do is get John to start considering that Sherlock does “feel things like that.” But that’s still a ways off from full Johnlock.
Sherlock’s got issues, too: Sherlock deduced John’s feelings at the wedding, but he only thinks John’s interested in Sociopath-Genius Sherlock, which will make him more reluctant to show John Real Sherlock. Obviously, he was pretty open on the tarmac, but he thought he was going to his death, so he had nothing to lose.
The reason their miscommunication is so bad is because it feeds off each others’. John can’t handle seeing Sherlock be how he so desperately wants him to be if it’s not real, so he shuts Sherlock down when Sherlock tries to open up (ex: THoB), which makes Sherlock think John only likes Sociopath-Danger-Genius Sherlock, which makes him all the more determined to continue to be like that so that John will stay, which makes John sure that Sherlock really is like that, which makes him unwilling/unable to see it when Sherlock tries open up because he can’t let himself think it’s real… You see the problem. So I think “The Three Garridebs”is going to break that cycle, but that doesn’t necessarily establish a new pattern right away. I think “The Three Garridebs” gives them the opportunity to reevaluate what they thought they knew about each other, and that will lead to Johnlock.
In S1, S2, or even very early in S3, this show could’ve followed the storyline where the two leads get together romantically but they still
have issues/miscommunications to work out, which they do while they’re
still together. At this point, though, I don’t think that can happen
anymore. Nearly all - or quite possibly just all - of John and
Sherlock’s issues with each other would disappear if they actually
admitted their
full feelings for each other: then John would know Sherlock really does
“feel things like that” and Sherlock would know John values him for more
than the work. The fact that they can’t/won’t talk about how they feel
is fueling this show. Mofftisson can’t resolve the tension before the
end of the show or the show would be really boring, and they can’t get
together at this point without resolving the tension. Ergo they can’t
get together before close to the end. If they had gotten together
earlier - say, kissed in TRF - then the story could have them together
but John still thinks Sherlock doesn’t “feel things like that” and
Sherlock thinks John just values him for the work, but at this point,
everything is so built up that it’s all going to come out at once.
I know that the writers love married!lock and Gatiss has talked about a detective drama where the main detective comes home to his boyfriend. But I think that’s the direction they were going with the pilot, and that’s the change they made.
For the vast majority of viewers, Johnlock in the S4 finale would not be “softly, softly.”
It should be - if this were a heterosexual couple, everyone would’ve seen this coming in ASiP - but it’s not.
gay/bi/pan/ace/trans themselves and/or educated about such things
None of
which applies to the general audience. We only just figured out TJLC ourselves. LSiT has got to be about the
biggest TJLC blog there is, with apparently about 15K followers. The overnight viewing
figure for HLV was 8.7 million. So the number of people even considering TJLC right now is literally negligent.
Johnlock in S4 would basically come out of nowhere for casual viewers. It would feel like a total narrative direction 180. They think John is happily married and Sherlock really is a sociopath, and so - even besides any reservations about viewing a queer relationship - it just wouldn’t make sense to them. The majority of people don’t see it… yet. They should, but they don’t.
Obviously, there’s no way to convince everyone, but there are a good number of people who wouldn’t be against it but are just uneducated and don’t notice it: those people can be convinced. But not if it comes as - what they feel is - a surprise. It has to be so obvious because Johnlock is basically “thinking outside the box” for a lot of people. It doesn’t even ping on their radar. “Softly, softly” - in my opinion - means that viewers will figure out Johnlock for themselves before it becomes canon (at least subconsciously). So when it happens, they’re like “Oh, yeah. That makes sense.” That’s how you convince people of things: make them think it was their idea.
That’s not where most people are at, not even close, and I don’t think we’ll be at that point by the S4 finale. I think “The Three Garridebs” is supposed to be the point at which the casual viewer first considers Johnlock as a viable option. Like: “That was very… strong for platonic. That was platonic… wasn’t it? I mean… he said he loves him, but that was just… Actually… now that I think about it…” Because I think it would take something as big as “The Three Garridebs"to make Johnlock ping on most people’s radar. And then they have a couple of episodes to sort of mull it around in their mind, and then when it happens, it makes sense to them, so they support it.
I don’t think The Johnlock Kiss fits in “The Three Garridebs.”
I know a lot of people really love this idea, but I don’t think it fits with the tone Mofftisson have set up. It has to do with the fact that it’s not a detective show; it’s a show about a detective.
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