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Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch, behind the scenes of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (x)

There’s a lot of talk of John marrying Mary as a way to ‘prove’ his heterosexuality. He felt the need to appear ‘normal’, so he took on a normal life: wife, child, living in the suburbs. If we expand upon this a bit, I think his reaction to Mary when he finds out who she really is is telling. 

He’s not upset that she lied. He’s not upset she has a secret identity. He’s not upset that she shot Sherlock to cover up who she is. No, the thing that appears to upset him the most is that she ‘isn’t normal’. She doesn’t conform to idea of a ‘perfect’, ‘normal’ (aka, heterosexual) life. She isn’t the happy wife in the suburbs with a child, but a highly trained assassin. John chose Mary because he thought he could have a normal life with her. He chose someone who he thought was the exact opposite of Sherlock: wanting to settle down, not go on crazy, dangerous adventures.

But, even in his attempt to chose someone completely opposite to Sherlock, someone he can pretend to be straight with, he still ends up choosing someone who is similar to Sherlock in a lot of ways.

Is it just me, or does this scene sound REALLY sexual without the video…? It seriously sounds like they just had sex at a public pool.

FAVORITE FREEBATCH/TFBC MOMENTS

Lustful Martin

Touchy Martin

Pining Ben

“getting closer”

   “notice me”

  “offended”

  “i’m fine, i’m fine”

   “please notice me”

“alright, i’m not crying inside”

   “pining in the distance”

Staring at each other when the other can’t see

  Synchronized

This

Ben about Martin

Martin about Ben

  “whether we like it or not…”

Looking like a couple

Ben waiting for Martin

Being silly

    In a very platonic…

Is Sherlock Watson good enough for you?

I just realized that in this godforsaken scene:

When Sherlock says “I think it could work”

He’s saying ”I think the name Sherlock Watson could work”

And then John, still laughing, realizes what he just heard and does a sort of puzzled look back up at Sherlock:

And Sherlock just:

And in conclusion, we’re not exactly looking at an aborted declaration of love.

first sketch on my new sketchbook

Scenes without background music: Drunk Sherlock and John play Celebrity Heads.