Sherlock creators cannot stress enough that #Johnlock is not happening
#Sherlock creators want #Johnlock shippers to know Sherlock and John aren't gay 📺 https://t.co/fsIhkkUcXi pic.twitter.com/V3TbqOoEHE
- UPROXX (@UPROXX) July 28, 2016
- At some point last year Moffat said, “Everyone wants to believe [Sherlock]'s gay. He’s not gay. He’s not straight. And Doctor Watson is very clear that he prefers women. People want to fantasize about it… But it’s not in the show.”
- At Comic-Con this year, he also spoke on a panel about the ways that homosexual relationships were portrayed in media (lol okay) some of the things he said apparently led Johnlock fans to believe that he was not only confirming the relationship, but also confirming that the two characters would lock lips in the Series 4 finale (who knows, that part might actually be true).
- In response, Moffat and co-writer Mark Gatiss had to set the record straight yet again.
- Moffat: “It is infuriating frankly, to be talking about a serious subject and to have Twitter run around and say, ‘Oh that means Sherlock is gay.’ Very explicitly it does not. We are taking a serious subject and trivializing it beyond endurance.”
- Gatiss: “He explicitly says he is not interested. Doesn’t mean he couldn’t be. Doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with it. I’m a gay man. This is not an issue. But we’ve explicitly said this is not going to happen… 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. And if people want to write whatever they like and have a great time extrapolating that’s absolutely fine. But there is no hidden or exposed agenda. We’re not trying to f*ck with people’s heads. Not trying to insult anybody or make any kind of issue out of it, there’s nothing there. It’s just our show and that’s what these characters are like. If people want to do that on websites absolutely fine. But there’s nothing there.”
- Fans got pissed at that and went so far as to claim that the whole interview was staged to the point that Gatiss even tweeted that nah folks, they really said those things.
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Moffat is trash but these shippers somehow are worse. ONTD, have you ever deluded yourself into believing that your fav ship was legit?