[ SECRET POST #1967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1967 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #281.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would have given it a shot one way or another, but Lucy Liu does pique my interest and makes me more excited. It would have been better though if she had been Sherlock. I'd watch the hell out of female!Sherlock.

Anyway. As others have already said, I'm also a bit unhappy about the fact that she's not an army doctor. In a way, that almost makes me wish she could have Batwoman's backstory, except as a doctor. (If only Sherlock were female too.)

[cherrycoloured.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, did I hear something about Batwoman? :D A female Watson with a similar backstory to hers would be really interesting as would a Batwoman movie.

[zerrat.livejournal.com]

+100 on your strikeout, I wish DC would make it happen. ;_;

[spicandspan89.livejournal.com]

THIS. Plus, female!Sherlock might even be enough to stop the comparisons to House.

[drunken-clowns.livejournal.com]

This.

I don't feel that Watson's necessarily a feminine character (not in the gender essentialism way, but in the "which characters get which roles in the story" way) but with the way he's mostly portrayed, it's not exactly groundbreaking to recast him as a woman. Compared to Sherlock, he's more grounded and in touch with the world around him, and that's a pretty common stereotype used in female characters. Also lady Watson being one of the only Watsons who's not a vet is not that promising in terms of new strides for female characters.

I'd have loved lady Sherlock, though. There don't seem to be a lot of female characters with that kind of personality out there, and maybe this is just me being selfish, but that's one of my favorite character types and I wish more of them were women.

I also sort of think Sherlock and Watson work best as the same gender? But maybe that's just me too, and it doesn't rule out lady Watson AND lady Sherlock.

[queenoftea.livejournal.com]

yesss. it makes me a little nervous that they're using a lady as the 'human' partner. it's like when they turned harry mason in silent hill into a woman for the movie, because men can't have parental instincts enough to drive the plot (looking for his daughter).

[drunken-clowns.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorta. I thought it was really cool for Harry to be a man, and replacing him with Rose was actually a step backwards. If you didn't know who Harry was, his story was pretty coded for a mother, but he was still totally believable as a guy and I think most fans were pretty fond of him. Rose was pretty cool (and had much better chemistry with Cybil) but that's the standard mom horror movie plot right there. Doesn't mean it's that bad to show moms that way or anything, but likable people who don't entirely fit their gender role are all too rare, and I think necessary.

I'm just kinda meh about lady Watson. I don't think Watson loses anything by being a woman, it's just that it's a really 'safe' choice, you know? And it seems like this Watson in particular might be getting pushed into some gender stereotypes, even though Lucy herself is really wonderful (am I the only one who thinks she would have made a great Sherlock?) I get why people might prefer this Watson just because that's what they're more interested in, but I don't think either version is necessarily the "most progressive thing we should all support" or anything.