Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular and beloved characters in literature, and for years, fans have made him their own, giving him new stories or even adding to his mysterious backstory, and in some cases, they have gone as far as to write theories about Sherlock and company. Sherlock Holmes made his debut in in A Study in Scarlet and went on to appear in a total of four novels and 56 short stories.
The Great Detective has been adapted to all types of media for over a hundred years, and one of its most recent TV adaptations was Sherlock , created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.
The series brought Sherlock played by Benedict Cumberbatch and John Watson Martin Freeman to the modern world, with up-to-date reinterpretations of their cases as well as new stories. When the series brought Sherlock back in season 3 , the writers included multiple explanations on how he survived without really revealing how he did it, and it was obvious they took a look at the most popular fan theories to come up with some possible ways in which he faked his death. Sherlock showrunners were well-aware of the existence of Johnlock and the fan pressure that came with it, with Moffat assuring fans multiple times that, while they lied about various plot holes and purposedly misled them many times, Johnlock was never part of their plans.
From the very beginning of Sherlock , a possible attraction between Sherlock and John was hinted at and almost immediately shut down by them mostly John. Once they began living and working together, various characters close to them simply assumed they were a couple, among those Mrs.
Serial narratives are fueled by drama, and they often create that drama by shaking up character relationships. But fans pushing for their ships to become canon are typically looking ahead to what they call "endgame" — they believe that when all is said and done, after all the drama, their ship will, essentially, be the one that comes out victorious.
Generally, they consider any alternative to be unpardonable. Clinging to this kind of all-or-nothing view of a character pairing is, in general, a recipe for massive disappointment. Fans of ships involving queer characters, characters of color, disabled characters, and other drastically underserved identities often lobby creators to acknowledge and embrace the validity of their ships.
They frequently cite the sad but widely observed fact that characters who fall within these underserved identities rarely get to have meaningful canonical relationships written about them.
Conflating ships that involve underrepresented identities with the desire for inclusion gets especially dicey when it leads fans to prioritize support for their ship over other intersectional concerns. The prioritization of a ship at the expense of other intersectionality concerns is also present on The , which earlier this year featured a queer canonical relationship between main character Clarke and the warrior queen Lexa, a. This belief argues that the people in charge of the narrative are deliberately concealing the "truth" about a relationship.
Because it involves an official cover-up, this particular ideological thread is particularly well-suited to ships involving real people real person fiction, or RPF and ships involving fictional queer characters.
It almost always escalates into outright fandom conspiracies, especially if the ship involves a perceived real-life relationship between two same-sex celebrities. And like all conspiracies, this level of shipping can lead to hardcore, alienating belief systems. Ships often involve a combination of these three basic branches of belief. Of course, combining these three ideological strains serves to make the overall shipper ideology that much stronger — and that makes interactions within and between different ideologies that much more fraught.
These days, because so many fans treat shipping as a serious matter of urgency, they tend to approach the fan-creator divide feeling utterly justified in their belief that a ship will be or should be canon. Yet creators and writers generally have no idea what kind of belief system has amassed around a ship until members of that ship approach them to try to discuss it. Creators and other cast and crew members who interact with fans tend to get asked basic questions like, "Will this ship be endgame?
In other words, the creators are seeing only the tip of the iceberg that is a fandom's investment in a ship, and fans are seeing only the tip of the iceberg that is the behind-the-scenes production of the canonical storyline. Add in the fact that both fans and creators usually believe they can see the whole iceberg, and the result is inherent miscommunication. This disconnect can lead to feelings of resentment on both sides. It can also lead to creators accusing fans of wanting to control their narratives.
The modern state of fandom involves an uneasy imbalance between fans and creators. But creators tend to engage with fans via a top-down approach. It's possible that shipping as ideology has arisen in part because of these imbalanced power dynamics with creators. But it would be far more accurate to say that shipper ideology is ultimately about fans trying to find a way to gain equity with creators, to work with them in a tacit collaboration.
For creators who are winging their interactions with fans, knowing when a ship has become a collective fandom ideology, and why, might help give you a bit of autonomy from your fandom. At the very least, it might help you remain neutral in your presentation of various ships and plot points and avoid unexpected pitfalls.
Henry Jenkins famously said that queer fanfiction "is what happens when you take away the glass. Shipping is exciting, fun, and often a progressive and empowering experience. And if a ship ultimately becomes canon, so much the better. However in comparison, significantly less people support tjlc. Quite a few people have said no, and a similar amount of people are undecided.
An overwhelming amount of people once again ship sherlock holmes and John Watson, seconded by the canon relationship between John Watson and Mary Morstan. In addition to this, a large majority of responders see homosexual subtext in the canon, seconded by those who are undecided or unsure if they see it or not.
Most people have seen Granada, Private Life, and Elementary as well. Universal with Rathbone comes in as the last of the popular ones and the rest of the listed adaptations and others not listed have varying lesser numbers.
There were many reasons for all the responses however this post would be miles long if I included them all. I will be making a separate post for some of the best responses and linking this one to it. Thanks to everyone who participated in this project, and who put up with my initial mistake on the first survey. It was very awesome reading the thoughts of so many people on a single subject.
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