So I just watched the Sherlock pilot again after a few years, and it's given me some thoughts. First of all, Sherlock is really really extra. Also, he doesn't come across as cold and unfeeling as he thinks. He really tries to appear cool, and to impress John. He makes a few guesses instead of deductions to this effect.
Also from the Angelo's scene, Sherlock is clearly into men and not opposed to dating men, in this example men being John, and turns John down because he doesn't want to date, not because John is a man or because he isn't into him. He reads the room and thinks John is flirting with him, or at least into him, John says it's not the case. However when he says "unattached, like me, good" seriously John why would you say that to your platonic flatmate, and why say it like that? That's at least a little bit gay. And then there's the "it's all fine" and asking specifically bf when Sherlock says women are not really his area. The whole conversation reads like John is into Sherlock and has an avoidant attachment style or something when he turns him down. It also reads like internalised homophobia a little bit on John's part.
It was interesting to go back to the episode again after some time. They really click from the beginning and seem to understand one another really fast.
Also worth mentioning about John is he refuses to be paid to deliver info about Sherlock to someone, while he barely knows Sherlock anyway, and above all, he flat out shoots a man dead that he perceives as a threat to Sherlock (rightly so I'd say, but still), while he still barely knows Sherlock! If anything that can't be called normal platonic flatmate stuff. That's some kind of soulmate shit, at least.
And while I know the showrunners didn't intend it to come out like this, it's definitely there in the text, there's not even a need to look very deeply in it. It's barely subtext at this point, and it's only the pilot. I can't fault all of us for getting so caught up in Johnlock, but I have had time to emotionally distanced myself from it now.
The vicious and delicate fond gestures, the famished and devoutness glances intricate till the core. Even that intangible atmosphere surrounded created to keep them in their own world.
I am utterly and completely convinced that Kevin, fresh out of the Nest, was given his 02 Palmetto State Fox uniform. He can't wear it yet officially but he has it and he uses it as inspiration. Works out in it for his PT to hype himself up about being able to wear it to official games.
He is then met with the reality that there is no one coming to do his laundry like there was in the nest. He thinks 'Well... hot sanitizes right?" and proceeds to use both warm water and high heat to the point that even the Cotton Synthetic Fiber jersey shrinks to unwearable levels.
Kevin is now faced with the option of going up to Coach Wymack (his secret dad) and admitting his mistake or this is what he has to work with. He tries it on and the crop-top booty shorts combo has Nicky hollering, Andrew staring and Kevin deciding to just admit his mistake and then talk to Abby about how to wash them properly.
Changbin: And why, every time you leave the room, do you have to mention cereals?
Jisung: What the bloody hell are you talking about now?
Changbin: Cheerios! Cheerios!
do you think little sammy picked daisies for dean. do you think little dean put them in a dusted glass on the motel kitchen counter with a little water. and later they pressed one of the daisies in dad's journal, with sammy sitting on top of it for a whole evening while watching cartoons.