[ SECRET POST #2016 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2016 ⌋

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

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Comments

[miarrow]

I don't think that's actually true, possibly same anon? I don't feel like Sherlock really did much with Watson's military experience other than the pilot episode (and his psychosomatic limp was completely gone after that, of course).

Not to say that you don't have the objection to it for that reason, but most of the vitriol I've seen is based on the fact that Lucy Liu somehow removes the gay from Sherlock/Watson and oh god a woman, let alone a POC woman getting in the way of our queer baiting programming!

I'm waiting to see how the lack of military history plays out. It'd have been nice to see an example of a WOC solider on the television and I am curious as to why they felt to make the switch, but I'm not going to cast it out completely.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the same as grudgey anon, but I wanted to address the point.

The thing you have to remember is that for some of us we aren't just comparing this to Sherlock. We're comparing this to all the different Holmes adaptions and going "but why is the military background suddenly gone when its a woman Watson?"

And maybe you need to hang out in different places? Because most of objections I've seen and heard have been about them radically changing Watson's history in a way that's sort of insulting. The only time I see the "But ewww a girl" stuff is from people defending Elementary.

[anonymouslyyours]

I specifically remember us talking about mouse Watson being an active doctor and a veteran.

[miarrow]

I've seen the "ew a girl/POC" reaction pretty much everywhere. I've seen a few reasonable points about the erasure of her military background, which I am also considering and still wondering why that decision was made.

I think it's hard on both sides of people that are reasonable to continue to recognize reasonable arguments when they're bombarded with ridculous ones.