Sherlock's relationship with women

[jjhankin]

Yes it would be completely out of Sherlock's character and mentality to have any relationship! Plus it would do a lot of people's heads in!!

I myself have a similar problem as I'm on the 'high functioning' spectrum/schizoid and don't have any social skills or sexual interest!! Altho funny enough the only person I have been tempted with is indeed Sherlock! Probably because I can relate to him and his intelligence..hmm if only he was real..!!

What do u guys think? Am not a psychopath am I?! ..do your research

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

You'd only be a psychopath if John fell for you. If Sherlock did that would mean that you're intelligence was high enough to intrigue him and interest him.

[Ruthyone]

I think as you get older, you want to find out more about the world and your attitude changes about love, sex and things like that.

I'm happily single and it would take a very interesting guy for me to get involved with. I think that's why Sherlock is so captivating and women find him fascinating because he uses his mind and doesn't notice their beauty. Also, it means that clever women, if they aren't good-looking, think they would stand a chance with him.

[Carol the Dabbler]

You'd only be a psychopath if John fell for you.

 

Smile when you say that! 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Smirking like crazy

[T.o.b.y]

... clever women, if they aren't good-looking, think they would stand a chance with him.

 

I very much doubt that part... While Sherlock values intelligence for sure, his disparaging remarks about Molly's lips and, um, other features, show that beauty does matter to him (his own sure does - just look at how he dresses!). And the only women we know he got even remotely involved with were very attractive.

 

I think he likes Molly as a person, likes her a lot, but doesn't find her sexy. His "type" (if he has one at all, who knows) seems to be more showy, at least if Irene Adler is anything to go by. (Even the original Mr Holmes noticed Miss Adler's beauty, by the way).

 

[sfmpco]

Here's my feeling on the SHERLOCK women.

 

IRENE: there is an attraction but I don't see him really pursuing it. I'm not really sure he would ever feel she was trustworthy enough to have a relationship with. There's something there but not too much. I think she exists only in his mind palace now.

 

JANINE. - it would be nice if he could grow from how poorly he handled that. I could see there was a little regret on his part but there was no time to develop that after that point.

 

MOLLY - well, not enough can be said about our dear Molly. She is the one who hopes and believes in him and is up to taking him to task. She really slapped him HARD. In HLV. In fact her slaps got progressively harder AND that helped him in his mind palace to focus. She is in many ways his equal and has a lot of shared interests with him. They make a good team. Would I like to see him take a chance with her? Absolutely!!!! Will he? I hope so but we will see.

 

Certainly he's able to pretend the feelings. But can he ever flip the switch and allow himself to have REAL feelings in a relationship that is reciprocal? I hope so, but even do, I don't expect him to ever have a normal type of dating relationship like John. He would be bored with traditional date outings. So he'll have to map his own course if he chooses that direction in his life. I hope he does but at the same time, I hope it's not a huge emphasis.

 

JA

[Janie]

MOLLY - well, not enough can be said about our dear Molly. She is the one who hopes and believes in him and is up to taking him to task. She really slapped him HARD. In HLV. In fact her slaps got progressively harder AND that helped him in his mind palace to focus. She is in many ways his equal and has a lot of shared interests with him. They make a good team. Would I like to see him take a chance with her? Absolutely!!!! Will he? I hope so but we will see.

 

 

Oh no, please. No relationship for Sherlock. It would ruin it for me... 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I think Sherlock and Molly with always have a work related and friendly relationship.  They are more like brother and sister then lover material. I think Molly realizes that and has grown.

[Ruthyone]

I think Sherlock would walk all over Molly, even though she gave him a good slapping - better to be good friends.

[Arcadia]

Absolutely, unless she changes the way she responds to him.

[T.o.b.y]

 

MOLLY - well, not enough can be said about our dear Molly. She is the one who hopes and believes in him and is up to taking him to task. She really slapped him HARD. In HLV. In fact her slaps got progressively harder AND that helped him in his mind palace to focus. She is in many ways his equal and has a lot of shared interests with him. They make a good team. Would I like to see him take a chance with her? Absolutely!!!! Will he? I hope so but we will see.

 

 

Oh no, please. No relationship for Sherlock. It would ruin it for me... 

 

 

At the moment I am convinced it would for me as well, but you never know. I got used to series 3 pretty fast after my initial "oh dear, oh dear" response. And my brain has already half-resigned itself to the resurrection of Moriarty. So who knows. I'm beginning to think Sherlock can reconcile me to anything.

 

Of the women, I favor Irene. Because she's the woman, that's her whole point, so if there are other women, she loses - something. I don't know. And I like her (this version, at any rare) for herself. Yes, I am influenced by her sheer attractiveness. But there are better reasons. I think. I love how complicated she is, how dangerous, how ruthless, yet not completely heartless (that would be boring). She's deeply flawed and her life is a total mess and she is a bit mad and quite mysterious. And she's very weak yet very strong at the same time. My kind of character, I guess.

 

Don't get me wrong, I adore and worship Molly, but she's much better as a sisterly friend of Sherlock's and she deserves so much better than a tempestuous long-term love affair with Sherlock (which I think is the utmost he'd be capable of).

 

[sfmpco]

They have already said that Moriarty is dead and that they're not having 2 fake deaths.  I believe it is someone using Moriarty's image to bait the governement into bringing Sherlock back into the picture... which would mean whoever is doing the baiting knows what happened with CAM and has access to top government information.

 

You can survive a fall from a building.  You can't survive blowing your brains out.

[Caya]

Well yes and no. There have been cases, the most famous probably being Phineas Gage. Which is not to say I'd want Moriarty back. But humans can be surprisingly resilient.

[jesskayding]

I think he's in love with THE Woman. He got really sentimental. He kept her phone after saving her from a beheading. He did solve the Coventry conundrum in like 5 secs to impress her. When he thought she was dead, he excepted that cigarette from Mycroft.

 

She successfully seduced him. In the end he was also on a leash... He broke away for a brief moment "sorry about dinner"... But then risked his life.." Run" he told her.

 

SO3... She was all up in his head. If he had no feeling for her... He could simply delete her. No Sherl has Looove on his mind

[jesskayding]

Now. If Molly can move on... I have said this before... She & Lestrade would make cool couple.

[T.o.b.y]

Now poor Molly. She can't make that man "I.. I.. I.." then fall back into a stuper in his bed.

 

No, not poor Molly. I'd much rather be the one person Sherlock Holmes will let down his defenses for (if only a bit) and to whom he will admit not being okay and needing help, than the sex goddess he'll eventually despise himself for lusting after.

 

And yes, Molly and Lestrade would make a great couple.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Definitely.  If I can be said to "ship" anyone on this show, it's gotta be Molly & Greg.

 

[jesskayding]

 

 

 

 

Now poor Molly. She can't make that man "I.. I.. I.." then fall back into a stuper in his bed.

No, not poor Molly. I'd much rather be the one person Sherlock Holmes will let down his defenses for (if only a bit) and to whom he will admit not being okay and needing help, than the sex goddess he'll eventually despise himself for lusting after.

 

And yes, Molly and Lestrade would make a great couple.

I don't see Sherlock lusting after The Woman... I really think he's impressed with her intellectual prowess, her way of creative survival, & that she's nearly as rebellious as he is.

 

She truly did/ does love him... Sherlocked she is.

 

Not only that she's the only person so far that he's bothered to keep something (her burned phone) for sentimental reasons. The man @ least admires her, if he's incapable of romantic love.

[jesskayding]

They have already said that Moriarty is dead and that they're not having 2 fake deaths. I believe it is someone using Moriarty's image to bait the governement into bringing Sherlock back into the picture... which would mean whoever is doing the baiting knows what happened with CAM and has access to top government information.

 

You can survive a fall from a building. You can't survive blowing your brains out.

I like this theory... Makes since. Hmmm... Mycroft maybe? Sherlock himself? Not The Woman?? Wouldn't it be funny if Anderson & his "theorist" figured something out.

 

Wouldn't be Wiggins. It would be a complete shocker if Tom (Molly's X) turned out to be someone else. Mary could be behind it... Hmmmmmmmm

[T.o.b.y]

Leaving aside the fact that Molly would have to be highly intelligent to have such an important job in a renowned institution like Bart's, it's a mistake to judge a book by its cover. Just because she has a shy manner and not much dress sense doesn't mean she can't be loyal, brave, bright and determined - the qualities which Sherlock evidently values in John.

 

She's the one who sees Sherlock's sadness - at the wedding as well as before the Fall - and the one he turns to for help. She keeps his secret for two years. She's also the only one who understands his personality well enough to realise how much he's going to struggle with his wedding speech. She has the scientific knowledge to help him in his work. In many ways, she'd be an excellent match for him (if he wasn't gay ) So she gets flustered sometimes, because she's crazy about him....Well, cut the girl some slack. Who woudn't get in a bit of a flap in the presence of Sherlock?

 

Janine as a partner for Sherlock? Nah. Shrewd and tough, with her eye on the main chance, and very worldly but no genius. Sherlock does a lousy thing, pretending to propose to her, and she manages to forgive him after she gets back at him, which shows a big heart...but Mrs Sherlock Holmes? No. She's too ordinary.

 

Irene, however, isn't ordinary at all. Very clever, very ruthless, very good-looking, doesn't care how people judge her....She's a perfect match, in many ways. And he did go halfway across the world to save her. So, could the pro domme be the one for the consulting detective?

 

Maybe. But I 'm still voting for John.....

 

You characterize the women very well!

 

I'm still voting for "Sherlock remains permanently single". Aside from that, I think it's sex - Irene, love - John, friendship - Molly, buddy - Janine.

 

[jesskayding]

I'd prefer him to remain single as well. I do like the idea of him being absolutely careless with women's hearts & using them to get whatever he needs for a case.

 

He'd be a very, very bad boy in need of recreational scolding.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I'd prefer him to remain single as well. I do like the idea of him being absolutely careless with women's hearts & using them to get whatever he needs for a case.

 

He'd be a very, very bad boy in need of recreational scolding.

 

I agree with keeping Sherlock single.  I see his relationship with Molly as a friend and a really close one but maybe not quite to the "she's like a sister to me" stage even though that type of deeper level of friendship was almost implied in 3.1.

[Schlauer Fuchs]

 

I see his relationship with Molly as a friend and a really close one but maybe not quite to the "she's like a sister to me" stage even though that type of deeper level of friendship was almost implied in 3.1.

 

Indeed. Though admittedly: Would Sherlock know what it really is like to have a sister? I feel his relation to Mycroft wouldn't necessarily introduce him to this special kind of friendship/love that connects siblings and that makes their relation different to that of "just friends".

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Molly did claim that Sherlock used her bedroom as a bolthole....wishful thinking....or just Sherlock being totally disrespectful of boundaries.