It's the drawn out romance with the two leads that makes it completely unexpected.
For me it was also an incredible relief to have a show finally admit that this is always a possibility in any story of human connection -- one option is that they are in love, one option is that they desire each other. Yes folks even if it's men. Two men can have feelings in the same room without it burning down.
It just *is* a possibility, and if that energy, that chemistry is there, it can be the best way to tell a particular story. And it can weirdly distort your storytelling if you *don't* tell it that way, or if you go out of your way to try to unstitch all the queerbaiting you did in earlier seasons. (Looks beadily at /Sherlock/.)
But was the slow burn slow and burning enough for you?
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Date: 2022-04-07 03:25 am (UTC)For me it was also an incredible relief to have a show finally admit that this is always a possibility in any story of human connection -- one option is that they are in love, one option is that they desire each other. Yes folks even if it's men. Two men can have feelings in the same room without it burning down.
It just *is* a possibility, and if that energy, that chemistry is there, it can be the best way to tell a particular story. And it can weirdly distort your storytelling if you *don't* tell it that way, or if you go out of your way to try to unstitch all the queerbaiting you did in earlier seasons. (Looks beadily at /Sherlock/.)
But was the slow burn slow and burning enough for you?