BBC Sherlock “ship” questionnaire

(Okay I’m just going to make this post a bit longer and more official)

Hello, tumblr Sherlock fans! I have one little favour to ask. If you have exactly 30 seconds to spare, could you please fill in this tiny little questionnaire about your favourite Sherlock pairings? It’s not something I’m doing for fun, I do this because of my bachelor thesis that is focused on the relationship between John and Sherlock and how it could transformed throughout the adaptations + what could affect them. 

So, please, please, help me, fill this in and reblog. You have my gratitude.

A huge thanks for all of those who took time and filled in my Irene Adler questionnaire. You’re awesome! I’m going to post it again just to lure another bunch of people into it!

So here it is : Irene

And remember: Choose only TWO WORDS from the list and write ONE WORD that is not included in the list.

Thank you! :)

Irene Adler questionnaire

Okay, here  it is.

It’s very simple, it won’t take you more than five minutes, and if you fill it in, you help this girl with the completing of her bachelor thesis.

It is a short questionnaire about the canon, BBC, and Guy Ritchie’s movie Irene Adler.

Please, help me. I’m counting on you, fandom.

Okay I have a question for you smart English speaking people.

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler is referred to as a “well known adventuress”. I’m curious about that term, as the Webster dictionary defines it as “a female adventurer, esp: a woman who seeks position or livelihood by questionable means” In Czech, it was simply translated as a female adventurer, but without the derogatory context. So I’m just asking, when the King called her an adventuress, he meant to insult her, right? He didn’t actually mean that she’s a well known traveller, slaying dragons and what not. Hm? Maybe that’s why she’s mostly depicted as a foxy woman, cooperating with Moriarty, because of this little word and its interpretation.

Some of my friends also suggested that the term could describe an independent woman, who stands out and doesn’t really follow any society rules that were common in that time. Something like a suffragette. Could they have a point?

My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterizes you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight, but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less well illuminated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light, and being satisfied with such a result.

Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Just imagine Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock saying this to Martin Freeman’s John.

Plot twist: someone with the ‘Stayin alive” ringtone is actually a Bee Gees fan.

Okay…so I tried to make a photshop thing. I think it’s quite good for a first try.

How come noone is talking about Jim Moriarty’s IT alias????

ZUCCO. JIM ZUCCO.

And his e-mail is: jim@dynamicasteroid.com (the name of his IT company)

DYNAMIC. ASTEROID.

(It’s in the Casebook, look it up.)

Doctor John Watson & John (part 1 of ‘who the hell knows how much’)

“The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.”
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air, or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.” 
“Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, the great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
“There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence…”
“So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realised that I must make a complete alternation in my style of living.”  

•  We know, that BBC John misses the war, so does the first caption really relates to him?
• Why did Moffat and Gatiss make up an extra character, John’s sister Harriet? Was it simply to add something personal and more specific to Sherlock’s first deduction about John? Or do you think Harriet was supposed to be another part of John’s rather miserable life?
• Do you think that John missed London and therefore chose to live there, even though he had no money? Or he moved there hoping for a chance to experience something new?
• We know that the original Doctor John Watson was interested in the flat-sharing mainly for the reason of not having any money. But we also know that BBC John has trust issues and doesn’t relate to his family, he isn’t eager to communicate with old friends or colleagues. Did the lack of money beat his social issues?

“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In the old days Stamford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm.”
“I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it by the time that we reached our destination.”
“I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone.” 

•  As it is evident from the picture, the BBC John does everything to avoid a conversation, especially with an old friend.
• We also know he really doesn’t want to share his story, his current state.
• Unlike the original Doctor Watson, who is quite pleased with the idea of a flatmate, BBC John doesn’t seem to be very convinced by the suggestion. So was it curiosity that made him to have a look at his potential flatmate? Excitement? Chance for a change? Or was it just money?

What do you think?