[ SECRET POST #2558 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2558 ⌋

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

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[Frozen]


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[Cabin in the Woods]


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[Trailer Park Boys]


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08. [SPOILERS for Elementary]



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09. [SPOILERS for Zelda comic]



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10. [SPOILERS for Breaking Bad]


















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11. [SPOILERS for Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]
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Comments

[intrigueing]

Well, ACD did have a lot of female characters with just as much prominence (one story) as Irene (actually, way more prominence than Irene -- Irene had only one onscreen scene and almost no dialogue, just a letter. Her popularity is due to how big a personal impact she had, rather like Moriarty being TEH VILLAIN because he was such a big deal, not because actually had a single actual scene in canon that wasn't hearsay). There were plenty of female characters with a lot of involvement in the one story they appeared in -- Violet Hunter, Violet Smith, Mary Sutherland, Lady Brackenstall, Helen Stoner, Mrs. Hope, Mrs. St. Clair...a bunch more.

What ACD didn't have is any recurring major female characters, but then again he had only one major recurring character of any gender -- Lestrade. Mycroft only had two appearances (three, if you count The Final Problem), Mary had three with dialogue (one major, two minor), Mrs. Hudson had several appearances, but all of them minor. Hopkins had...three, I think? So technically, the fans or producers, if they wanted het pairings, could have just expanded the roles of those one-shot female characters the way they expanded Irene's, Mycroft's, and Moriarty's.

I think the main difference is that there's a difference between clients and personal associates when it comes to shipping -- people like to ship characters who have a lot of potential exposure to each other so the assumption of the pairing can be slipped in between canon scenes or behind the scenes, and/or stories can be written about the subtext or about the slooowww buuurrrnnn, because there's not as much fun in shipping a pairing where the only reason the characters would stay in contact is if one said "hey, I liked you, want to go out sometime?" ;)