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⌈ Secret Post #2405 ⌋

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Comments

[silverau]

I didn't know Watson even used a cane. :/ I'd be upset, too; TV totally needs to have more disabled characters having adventures and being badass.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, BBC!Sherlock really took it to whole new depths; not only was the limp psychosomatic (and the shoulder injury, though retained as legit, apparently didn't affect the character in any way at all whatsoever *koff*frozen shoulder*koff*, the limp got magicked away so the two characters (I refuse to justify them with the names ACD assigned in canon) could run like loons through the streets of London, as an Aspie head-map careened in and out of view.

...wow that came out more caustic than it should have...

If my vestibular disorder gets any worse (as it is supposed I'LL be the one with the funny stick next--I look forward to being able to brain any idiots who give me grief with it, however. XD

TL;DR: I feel you OP, and IA with silverau's comment 110%.

[elephantinegrace]

Oh, lordy, when I watched the pilot, I had to fast-forward over that whole part or risk cringing myself to death. And even then I couldn't watch it all the way through at once. It was like the entirety of Garden State; if you can get over your need on a placebo crutch, you too can have crazy adventures with a sexy brunet/te!

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Speaking of the pilot, one of my absolute favorite parts was when John shouted "damn my leg!" and then immediately apologized because I've been there myself. As clever as it was for them to change things up a bit (and give a nod to canon with the whole leg/shoulder kerfuffle), it would have been brilliant to see more of that in the rest of the series.

[truxillogical]

Well...he doesn't. Always.

Because in the books--the original things and all--the location of his wound fluctuated from his shoulder to a limp and back again. ACD wasn't really keeping tabs of it.

I dunno, I thought it was kind of clever, the way the series poked fun at the fact that the original author couldn't even keep Watson's war injury straight.

Which isn't to say that it isn't nice to see characters with different levels of mobility in more media, and especially in roles that allow them to get some action, or be something other than, say, the smart kid in the chair, almost always referred to as "Wheels."

[cloudsinvenice]

I think it's also the fact that it plays so horribly into the real-world attitude that the young, outwardly normal person with the cane can't possibly have a disability. There's been so much horrible government propaganda against disabled people in the last few years to justify welfare reforms - not that I think for a minute the writers of Sherlock sat down and planned an ableist slur; it's just that it hurt a lot of us to see shit we deal with in reality being reinforced on screen.

And yeah, I feel like I remember about three different "Wheels"-es from my childhood viewing...

[truxillogical]

Yikes. Yeah, from that perspective, I can see that it kind of sucks. It would have been better, and probably braver, to have John keep the cane while retaining exactly all of his hardcore soldier attitude. Some, as you say, "outwardly normal" people have canes.

One more thing I love about Pacific Rim--one of the characters has a cane. Yes, he's a stuffy, brainy scientist (played by the everyjerk Burn Gorman), but he is by no means static, behind-the-lines. More than once, people's lives depend on him being able to get places in time with the information he has.

And the why of his cane is never addressed. No one even mentions it--there's no tragic story about being injured in a kaiju attack, or no mention of how he was picked on for having a disability and turned to math (a possible hint that he was picked on, but for Hermann...eh, take your pick of reasons, really). He's this young guy in his thirties, and he has a cane that he needs to help with his mobility. Because none of your business, it's not really important, and can we please save the world now.

It was just one more way that silly punchy sci-fi film did a better job of reflecting the world people actually live in.

(miiiiiight be on a Pacific Rim kick right now.)

[cloudsinvenice]

I would have loved to see them handle John that way. Also, I remember a friend making an interesting point - that even if John's injury was psychosomatic, if he's been limping around with a cane for months then he will actively have gait problems because the body tends to react to an altered gait (I used to have painful injections into my hip every couple of weeks - for two days, the injected hip hurt, but for the next four, the other one hurt because I'd been leaning on it!). I'm not wholly against the idea of a psychosomatic injury being a really interesting story to explore, but it might have been handled so much more subtly...

I've been going back and forth about seeing Pacific Rim, but you've just decided me. :)