#johnlock confirmed

Okay okay so we all remember the heartbreaking scene in Doctor Who, season 2, episode 13, Doomsday.

The Doctor was projecting his image to the beach and the last thing he said after Rose told him he loved him was, "Quite right, too. And I suppose if it's my last chance to say it, Rose Tyler, I-" and of course his next words were going to be "I love you"

WHILE WATCHING THIS SCENE I THOUGHT OF ANOTHER, VERY SIMILAR SCENE IN ANOTHER FAVOURITE TV SHOW OF MINE.

Remember the equally heartbreaking scene in His Last Vow, series 3, episode 3 of Sherlock? "John, there's something I should say. Something I've meant to say, always, and never have. Since it's unlikely we'll ever meet again, I might as well say it now."

Mycroft, to John: Sherlock’s business seems to be booming ever since you and he became...pals.

SOME THINGS:

1.) MYCROFT HESITATES BEFORE EMPHASIZING ON THE WORD ‘PALS’

2.) SHERLOCKS EYES SHOOT UP WHEN MYCROFT SAYS IT

3.) MOFTISS DIDNT NEED TO INCLUDE THIS, NEVER DISREGARD ANY SMALL HINTS/MOMENTS THAT LEAD TO JOHNLOCK

I’ve seen a few people complain that this post I made is not actually a shout out to the fandom TJLCers, but rather a completely arbitrary statement and we are Reaching. To counter, in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (dir. Billy Wilder), the answer to this question is yes, absolutely.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has been cited as a major source of inspiration by both Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, and they both admire Billy Wilder’s work, so any similarities between the two cannot be treated as a coincidence. The universe is rarely so lazy.

I invite you to pull up a copy of the movie online (or, if you’re more inclined to a more legal way, pop a DVD in) and skip ahead exactly 20 minutes. This my friends, is the most important part in the entire film. A woman asks Sherlock Holmes to be the father of her child. He declines for Reasons. Those Reasons are explained with the conversation he has with this woman’s translator:

ROGOZHIN: [...] and we considered Tschaikowski -- HOLMES: Oh, you couldn’t go wrong with Tschaikowski -- ROGOZHIN: We could -- and we did. It was a catastrophe. HOLMES: Why? ROGOZHIN: You don’t know? Because Tschaikowski -- how shall I put it? Women are not his glass of tea.

Tschaikowski is gay. That’s what that means. It’s not hard to infer. Things didn’t work out because couldn’t get it up with the Madame because he’s not attracted to women. This same analogy is used minutes later to imply that Holmes himself is gay (for Dr. Watson):

HOLMES: The point is that Tschaikowski is not an isolated case. ROGOZHIN: You mean, you and Dr. Watson -- ? (Holmes nods) He is your glass of tea? HOLMES: If you want to be picturesque about it. 

“Cup of tea” is absolutely code. It was code in TPLoSH, and it is code in BBC Sherlock. This line was inserted by the writers to draw a direct connection to this scene in TPLoSH. It doesn’t actually matter if the writers put this line in for specifically for us or not, but because they did, we know that tea is an important metaphor now, and probably always has been. We’ve been right to look at drinks all along. We've been two steps ahead of the rest of the fandom this entire time.

TL;DR - We were right about tea being gay and now antis are mad.

[This scene also contains the “I’m not free” line, as seen in John’s texts when he breaks it off with E, but that’s something for another meta.]

Sherlock: “Drey-cliff House—remember that one, John?”

Sherlock watches John stand up to Culverton’s creepy monologue, John says “No one’s untouchable”: 

End of the creepy monologue scene, Sherlock is looking past Culverton to John. This look to me says “NOW can we get him?”

And John’s face responds, breathing rapidly: “Oh God, yes”:

Sherlock: “We had chips, I think she liked me!”

Mary, on video: “…the man we both love.” 

And lastly, Sherlock finally puts on the deerstalker:

Don’t forget that Molly is a mirror for John in so many ways. If you’re one one those who don’t believe it, look more carefully and compare the two charaters in the way they look and what they say. For example, in the “I love you”-scene Molly is wearing the exact same shirt she wore in The Empty Hearse when Sherlock used her as a stand-in for John (which is kind of not okay, but you know, Sherlock is Sherlock).