MASTERPOST OF QUOTES RE: THE RELATIONSHIP IN ELEMENTARY

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from here:

“For me, [romance is] completely off the table,” Rob Doherty told TVLine. “It’s just not in my head for season one and, looking ahead… I just don’t feel like that’s a part of the show.”

Doherty joked: “The original Holmes, to the best of my knowledge, never slept with Watson.”

“People will ask us [about their relationship] every week, and there will be people who want to see it happen,” he acknowledged. 

“I don’t want to break any hearts but it’s just not in our plans. And I have felt no pressure [from the network] to pursue that kind of storyline.”

from here:

“I also was sort of up for the challenge. I knew it would be inevitable that people would be fascinated by the ‘will-they-won’t-they’ that would come up and I like that the question is there and it exists, but I also don’t feel any rush to… In fact, let me be blunt - I don’t want them to end up in bed together. That’s just not what the show is for. 

“I don’t think that would be true to the spirit of the original relationship between the two characters, and that’s important to me. I’d like to show that a man and a woman can be friends and go to work and live together and not end up romantically entangled.”

Carl: ”Robert often calls it a bromance, but one of the bros just happens to be a woman. 

“I think it’s a really apt description because there’s this idea that a man and woman can’t be together - on a show, especially - without needing to be together sexually or in love or whatever. And this is really just about the evolution of a friendship and how that happens. Watching that should be as much the story of this show as the mystery you see week in, week out about who killed who. 

“You know, we love that and those stories will be great, but the mystery of this relationship and how the friendship comes into being, that should be something that draws people in too.”

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