I went back to a couple cases to answer this question, hence the delay.
In the books Watson strikes me more as a hero-worshiper than as someone in absolute need of the Sherlock factor in his life. Holmes seems to be a bit more dependent of Watson, but mostly because he is his only friend, a place that Watson has earned mostly due to his worshiping of Holmes and his attempts at imitating Holmes' techniques, which, if you think about it, is rather narcissistic of Mr Holmes.
I think the movie tried to play way up the gay angle and, in my opinion, it came out more as an old marriage, which is a dynamic that doesn't necessarily spell twu wov, yanno? And so, since they are not an actual old marriage, they come across (imho) more as co-dependent rather than interested in each other like that, not saying there isn't the possibility, if the fic is well written, just that it doesn't seem that obvious to me from what I saw.
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Date: 2010-02-02 01:08 pm (UTC)In the books Watson strikes me more as a hero-worshiper than as someone in absolute need of the Sherlock factor in his life. Holmes seems to be a bit more dependent of Watson, but mostly because he is his only friend, a place that Watson has earned mostly due to his worshiping of Holmes and his attempts at imitating Holmes' techniques, which, if you think about it, is rather narcissistic of Mr Holmes.
I think the movie tried to play way up the gay angle and, in my opinion, it came out more as an old marriage, which is a dynamic that doesn't necessarily spell twu wov, yanno? And so, since they are not an actual old marriage, they come across (imho) more as co-dependent rather than interested in each other like that, not saying there isn't the possibility, if the fic is well written, just that it doesn't seem that obvious to me from what I saw.