Elementary 1x15 (no spoilers); my thoughts on slashy het

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I'm still offline, but next week is reading week and I wanted to give myself a short break from my self-imposed exile from fandom so I could post about Elementary. ♥this show♥ No spoilers! Just wanted to ramble about my newest pairing. I don't ship many canon het pairings, but I really do enjoy Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson on Elementary. They have

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Yes, I'm definitely with you on this post. I love Elementary and Joan/Sherlock do have amazing chemistry! I read an interview from Lucy Liu where she said that they don't have any intentions of them getting together, which was a relief before I saw the show, as I didn't want them to genderswap Watson just so they can get together, but really, I ended up shipping them hard so I'd be good with it either way! Like you said, I enjoy their friendship so much that I don't need them to get together though.

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as I didn't want them to genderswap Watson just so they can get together, but really, I ended up shipping them hard so I'd be good with it either way!

This, exactly. Like, I wouldn't mind it if they did get together, because I enjoy the intensity of their friendship--it's an incredibly slashy vibe--but I don't want the genderswap to make Holmes/Watson suddenly "okay" now that it's a heterosexual relationship whereas it would still be forbidden if they were two men.