[ SECRET POST #1967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1967 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As far as the military service stuff and being a surgeon who has lost her license... well we don't know the full story yet. Women in the military don't have the same experience as men. They are still not allowed in combat (this policy is slowly changing but idk if it has yet). So just by changing the gender of the character, they're already changing her potential military experience. Plus, I don't really believe that Watson's military experience is ESSENTIAL to the character. And as far as being a surgeon who has lost her license... we don't know the circumstances yet. It doesn't mean that she's incompetent or a bad doctor. She might have just had a bad case. The important part is that being a surgeon who lost her license is putting her in a position where she is a bit lost in life which is why she would take up with Sherlock and get swept up in his crime solving.

But there are female army doctors and in the line of danger as well tho'. And someone said it in this thread, that Watson's military experience usually comes in handy time to time. I like that the recent Holmes canons acknowledge that fact. There is no real reason NOT to make her an army doctor. It's just making Watson more suitable for a woman to play.

And finally the options in this scenario were not Joan/Sherlock heterosexual and interracial relationship (IF the show is even going to go there) relationship vs John/Sherlock homosexual relationship. So by making John into Joan we are not being ~robbed~ of a gay relationship on TV. THAT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. IT WAS NEVER AN OPTION. So making John into Joan is NOT an example of homophobia. It just isn't. John and Sherlock is not a canon sexual relationship so there is no gay relationship being erased.

I don't think you get why people are outraged and rightfully so if they turn their relationship into a romance. Holmes and Watson has been analyzed for centuries for their homosocial relationship. Understandably with the still-current homophobic environment, no canon based on ACD's books actually make them romantic interested (although you can argue that House is prolly the closest you will ever get). However, if you get them together as different sexes, it does count for a type of erasure.

And I lol that somehow interracial couples are just as rare or controversial as gay couples to the responses for this because that's frankly bullshit. I mean, they can be both interracial and the same sex, y'know. I would've like Sherlock being genderbent too and Liu's Watson too (although I am kinda uncomfortable everyone wants Liu to be Sherlock even though it falls into a lot of East Asian stereotypes if she's Holmes. Holmes that is Black or Brown would be pretty awesome, but that's too progressive for today's TV media. Especially when Scandal is the first Black female fronted drama series that made past the first season on a major network in 40 years...).

[(Anonymous)]

You cannot both say that changing her into a disgraced surgeon fundamentally changes the character and say that the only difference in their relationship will be that she's a girl. It's actually highly unlikely they'll do more than tease at the relationship, because part of Sherlock's thing is to not be into anyone, but even if they did it'd be wrong to say that a (modern) disgraced female surgeon living in America working with American police and Sherlock will have the exact same relationship and social situation as a (modern) male army vet living in London working with London police and Sherlock. The way they interact will be different in some ways. That's part of the point of changing Watson into a girl--so it's a new take one Sherlock, not so they can pair up two characters who never paired up in the original source.

Also, aside from the likelihood of Sherlock being asexual/chaste, it's theoretically possible that Watson could still have a Mary love interest, rather than a 'Martin'.