[ SECRET POST #2081 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2081 ⌋

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

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[Paul Ryan / Matthew Morrison]


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[The Incredible Hulk]


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[inuyasha and mobile suit gundam]


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[My Chemical Romance]


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[The Closer/Major Crimes]


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[Perception]


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[The Circle/ The Engelsfors Trilogy]


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[The Shoes-Time To Dance (official music video)]


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[UC Gundam]


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[Friends]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They're not even that similar as shows.

I mean, yes, they share the "set in the modern day" thing, which is a pretty big similarity. And they're both adaptations of the same thing, so there's some commonality. But Elementary really seems to be taking the characters in a different direction from Sherlock; it really seems like a very different take on the source material.

I mean, for Pete's sake, look at the two Watsons: one is probably the most textual, straight-forward Watson adaptation ever (imo); the other is an Asian woman who's working as Holmes' sober companion. These are not really all that similar; they're two different ways of working with the source material, both of which have the potential to be really cool.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the big difference in how Elementary treats the source material is that it's only loosely inspired by it it. It's more a House or Mentalist style program that actually uses the Holmes name.

Which is actually really interesting to see.

[(Anonymous)]

Asian woman who's working as Holmes' sober companion

All of that can be textual and straight-forward; you say Asian and a woman like that would intrinsically alter her character. And Watson IS Holmes' sober companion.

I get that Liu's Watson is very different in character, but let's not point to her identity stats as the main reason, hmm?

[(Anonymous)]

Why not? The fans of it certainly do. No one will shut up about how Joan Watson is a woman and Asian and isn't that progressive! never mind the creators didn't think a woman as a military doctor was believable and that they need to have her be 'fallen' to create sympathy for her Oh! And there is a difference between a friend being a 'sober companion' and having someone daddy hire you.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're solely interested in adapting the Watson in the text, the character you put on screen will not be an Asian woman, because the Watson in the text is a white Victorian man, not an Asian woman. So the fact that they made the character an Asian woman implies that they're willing to change things and that they have a certain attitude to the adaptation, especially in comparison with Sherlock where Watson is a white male ex-military doctor.

I agree that Joan Watson is also different in terms of her character and her personality, and I certainly don't think that's because she's Asian or a woman. She's different in many ways. Two of those are her race and her gender.