#withanaccent

these are part of the interview i was talking about: “Don’t blame us for things that aren’t there. It is infuriating. We get pilloried for these things as if our show – we haven’t even made the thirteenth one yet – has to have the shoulders to bear every single issue and every single campaign point. You can’t do that. It’s our show, they’re our characters, they do what we want them to do, and we don’t have to represent absolutely everything in that ninety minutes. It’s impossible. ”

“But we’ve explicitly said this is not going to happen – there is no game plan – no matter how much we lie about other things, that this show is going to culminate in Martin and Benedict going off into the sunset together. They are not going to do it.”

Hi Nonny!

Ah, yes, this is from the infamous WithAnAccent Interview from SDCC 2016, which actually sparked a LOT of controversy in the fandom at the time because the writer of this article refused to release sources for their content, when Nerdgeist offered up sources with no question, and essentially, I THINK if I recall correctly (please, friends, correct me if I’m wrong), that the writer was essentially being very anti-Johnlock themselves. I actually talked a bit about it here. There was actually a followup story the following day or so, which was a “part two” and basically confirmed Mofftiss lie all the time. I believe this was the same con that Mofftiss made the speech about “grumpy bisexual” and “camp gay” comments, and how you have to be careful about how you introduce LGBT characters. I suppose the latter interview can be left up to individual interpretation.

SDCC 2016 was a wild one, that’s for sure.

That said, we also have the comments by and actions taken by the creators post-S4 (like blocking and mocking people who talked about Johnlock, admitting to queerbaiting, etc.). So yeah, I can see why you are at a loss as to whether or not Johnlock will be canon, especially after whatever the hell S4 was. And that’s totally okay, Nonny! You’re allowed to be upset, and to really not think there’s any more coming, especially when all the cast, creators and crew either speak ill of Johnlock or block people, admit to queerbaiting, or shirk the questions. It’s totally okay Nonny! You’re allowed to not believe there’s more; there’s plenty of evidence pointing to what we got is “it”.

So, what still keeps me going after all of this, after all of the negativity surrounding S4? For me, I still have faith because what the narrative is telling us belies the word coming out of everyone’s mouths. In Seasons 1 to 3 and TAB, we are shown that Johnlock is the glue that holds the series together. This is demonstrated by the utter lack of Johnlock in S4 and you get a show that makes absolutely no sense. The quality of S4 is not the same as the previous seasons, and I just have a REALLY hard time believing that this Emmy-award-winning team:

Suddenly forgot how to film a scene without getting a camera operator in the shots.

Made sloppy editing choices that look bad on the crew (ie sloppy transitions, jaundiced skin, making sure the camera people weren’t in the shots).

Repeated scenes without any explanation as to why.

Created more plot holes than answers.

Forgot ALL the rules they established for their universe in previous seasons.

Gave us SO many inconsistencies. SO MANY.

Create Eurus who makes no sense at all.

Are STUPID METICULOUS about EVERYTHING in EVERY FRAME of EVERY SHOT, but are claiming none of it means anything?

Suddenly decided to no-homo the entire series and make these characters they claim to love so much essentially NOT the “Sherlock and John show”, like they were claiming for years.

Made the first two episodes look so beautiful but created whatever the hell TFP was.

Went from TAB to... that. It doesn’t make sense.

Etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.

TL;DR: S4 makes no sense and I just CAN’T let that go. As a logical creature, I need to pick apart everything to try to make sense of it.

Anyway, I do honestly have a bit of hope for something more, that there may be a Johnlock ending eventually. I do believe either something happened behind the scenes that we’re not privy to, or it’s “recreating the outrage of the original TFP”, or it’s purposely bad to get people to realize that the show is pointless without Johnlock, or they were annoyed we figured it out. 

As many of my followers know, I reluctantly want an S5, if only to explain the fuckery of S4. 

I am a Sherlock fandom nobody, est. 2012.

I never used to care whether Johnlock would actually be canon until, much like a not-inconsiderable number of fans, the airing of series 3. I was a passive spectator to the birth of TJLC and the ensuing factioning of the Sherlock fandom along that line, and I always promised myself that I would never be a judgmental fan - live and let live, I always say. I followed the metas of LSiT as well as mid0nz (and continue to follow the latter, including her brilliant new online magazine) with equal enthusiasm, agreeing with some of their ideas and disagreeing with others. 

I continue to be a more or less passive fan; I do not get involved in fandom discourse, I do not create transformative works, I do not add comments longer than a paragraph or so to my reblogs, and my most viral post is silly and uncontroversial, thank goodness. But I was and am a thinking fan, and here are my thoughts.