Elementary Meta: Shipping Joan and Sherlock

[fannishliss]

Shippping Joan/Sherlock..... well, I guess I do ship them for a certain value of shipping.  :P  I mean, I think the show has done a fantastic job of creating their relationship as being based on mutual trust and respect and the fact that they just *get* each other. And are willing to fight each other to make it clear that respect must be paramount.   So I certainly do ship the hell out of that. 

What I like the most is this: Sherlock fighting this thing he still has for the woman he knew as Irene who is really Moriarty.  That is just... killer.  shudders!!  And also, his penchant for being tied up and punished.  YES.  And then, his willingness to sleep with the woman who was after Mycroft, and his fury that Mycroft didn't appreciate it!!!  That's the kind of thing I love about this Sherlock.  He deeply gets how messed up he is, but he still keeps trying. He certainly likes it rough and wrong.  :D

Joan, then... sees sex as an itch to be scratched, very similarly to Sherlock, but.... *wants* there to be a civilized parlay about it, a set of rules.   What I love about Joan is her boundaries.  She has all these locks on, but despite them,  Sherlock is deep inside her now.  I freaking LOVE that.  Her relationship with him, while strictly "platonic" is deeper now that anything she's ever known -- in my opinion.  And it does irk her that Moriarty is still deeper inside Sherlock than she is, while not deserving that coveted position AT ALL.

I think I could see Joan and Sherlock engaging in an "arrangement" that could grow, over time, into something more like "romance."  But what I'd love to read sometime would be Joan opening Sherlock's passion, that place inside him that Moriarty plundered, that nearly destroyed him, and that is now LOCKED LOCKED LOCKED, but still aches for a woman who never was real -- and yet he knows that Moriarty created Irene, and a horrible little perverse thing inside him loves Moriarty for that, despite hating her with every atom.

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[paperbackwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm really conflicted about the Joan/Sherlock relationship in the show. I love it and could see it become more than a friendship and I think it would work but I'm not sure I want it.

I like that fact that for Sherlock, sex is all about the physical, the bondage thing, having no qualms about paying for it, his detachment fuels the idea of him as a sociopath. I also think that he finds genuine romantic or indeed any friendship as confusing, so when he makes one, like with Moriarty, he cannot just let it go but he's obsessed with finding out why he feels the way he does.

So the fact that he feels deeply for Joan does not automatically mean that he expects or wants the relationship to be physical but I suspect that he does want her physically but for purely sexual reasons.

I also think that from both Joan and Sherlock's view, they both 'get' each other but also feel there's much more to learn from and about each other. I think they both have an understanding of human nature but that they as people, on various levels, defy that and that's why they have achieved this deep bond.

My fear is that if the show were to steer them into a physical relationship, we'd lose some of that or, god forbid do a 'Moonlighting' which would break my heart. But it also makes sense to me that they are the kind of people who would just end up banging each others brains out.

I just don't know. I know original the show was conceived as never to have a romantic thing between them but it looks like they might try and sneak it in somehow.

See. Conflicted : ) x