[ SECRET POST #2115 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2115 ⌋

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

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02.
[Elementary]


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03.
[To Aru Majutsu no Index]


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04.
[Ghostbusters 2]


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05.
[One Piece]


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06.
[Teen Wolf]


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07.
[Big Time Rush]


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08.
[Sherlock]


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09.
[Pitch Perfect]


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10.
[Blue Exorcist & Supernatural]


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11.
[Homestuck]


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12.
[Rose Byrne]


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13.
[khaos komix]


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14.
[Once Upon a Time]


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15.
[The White Buffalo]


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16.
[Teen Wolf]


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17.
[Dawn of the Dead]


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18.
[CSI: Miami]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #302.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

People who've watched it - is there a good reason, a plot/character reason Joan Watson couldn't be a veteran?

Okay, this is kind of complicated and I'm not going to articulate this very well, but I think the main reason for the change was the way the show wants to show murder and its aftermath. Watson's the POV character, and her reactions to things kind of set the tone. The way she's been shocked/saddened/troubled by the bodies of murder victims is the main thing I've noticed, and I'm not sure it would have made much sense if she was coming from a war-zone medic background. I mean the main reason Watson in so many of the other adaptations is kind of blase about seeing death/terrible things is because he does have that background. People were having trouble buying that just as a surgeon, she'd be so shocked by a murder scene as to have to leave the room, can you just imagine if she'd been that shocked as an Army surgeon?

I'm not saying it wouldn't have been great if she had been a veteran, or that you couldn't have even worked your way around to the same kind of reactions to things even if she was. I just feel like that's the reason the change happened.

[darkmanifest]

Well, it's possible to have been in the military and come away with an even greater sensitivity towards death and trauma, due to overexposure leading to PTSD, I would imagine. In fact, they could even say that was why A) Watson didn't stay in the military longer, and B) froze up and lost a patient during surgery after she left. Don't watch the show myself, just speaking hypothetically.

[ariakas]

I see your point - they could have arrived at the same place by having her war experience scar her, or having her compartmentalize that experience separately from civilian life, but that would have been stepping on BBC!Watson's toes a bit.

That could have been a big part of it, though again, if that was so then why not just say so? I can't help but be skeptical, otherwise. Even if it was, it's still a tragically missed opportunity, given how low a profile female veterans are given in the US.