#and thats the best argument ive seen counter to tjlc

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RE the argument that TPTB didn’t realise people expected Johnlock and tanked their show as a result of the expectation and their lack of a plan. That TPLOSH was their favourite movie alongside Rathbone because Mark got unresolved gay pining and Moff got sexy Irene Ashdown character.

Mark admires TPLOSH for "desperately unspoken" pining, yes, but he commends The Boys in the Band for revolutionary deviation from subtext into text. Would he, a gay fanboy, want to make his adaptation of the canon a colossal queerbait ‘because he didn’t want anybody else to do it first’?

Why not do happy worstan lmao? The J/S romantic set-up is mutual. If it was one-sided it would emotionally rub salt in the wound for the audience, which is a positive if that’s what you’re going for, but instead there is a sense of tension because John is unhappy too. A  build-up.

I was gonna go on but honestly it just appears to me that S4 enforces every TJLC reason prior to it. There are so many ways they would avoid this mess. The glitches, the fucky plot premises; these breed skepticism. If they really wanted to tank the show they could’ve had Moffat wake up at the end of TFP and curse the cheese sandwiches that caused that crazy dream he just had. By doing this,though, they’ve ruined the entire show: they’ve rewritten the story. To tank the show, they should’ve made S4 irrelevant but instead they tied the two intrinsically.