- “what’s the fun
- in having a female watson
- if she doesn’t hit the sheets with the irritable detective at least once”
- entertainment weekly
- are you fucking kidding me
What’s the point in having a woman if she won’t have sex with a man I mean really
sherlock holmes
[Image: Art of Sherlock and Joan as middle schoolers; Sherlock is kneeling on the ground next to some white flowers, with a magnifying glass and a huge grin. “Did you want to show me some—” Joan starts to ask, and he crows “It’s poisonous!!” with tons of hearts and colors to show how exciting and magical he thinks that is. “Oh ok.” Joan responds resignedly. Sherlock’s jeans are ripped at the knees and he’s wearing a purple “BEE YOURSELF” sweater over a collared shirt, and Joan is wearing purple boots, gray tights, a pleated skirt and a letterman jacket, with a clip in her hair the same purple as the boots.]
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELEMENTARY AU wait do they look too old shit MIDDLE SCHOOL ELEMENTARY AU
if you can’t see, holmes’ shirt says ~BEE YOURSELF
Ok, I haven’t even seen Elementary yet and I love this
I made LiveJournal icons. Unfortunately, no-one uses them anymore. Or uses LiveJournal anymore, I suspect. This makes me sad.
[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah – young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.
This is
a sodding
BRILLIANT
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Finally saw the trailer for Elementary. It looks rather good, I must say. (I am open to any and all Sherlock Holmes adaptations, they’ll never take the place of the books.) I’ve liked Lucy Liu ever since she did the ‘I Dated A Robot’ episode of Futurama, and I like the idea of a tatooed Sherlock for some reason. And it all looks very pretty, and…yeah, I’m totally looking forward to it.
Except, again, it probably won’t air in the UK for ages. >:(
Sherlock megapost
I have Warmed Up to Sherlock now. The show, I mean. I still don’t quite like Benedict Cumberbatch’s interpretation. He’s a great character but he’s not my Holmes, if you know what I mean. And Martin Freeman isn’t my Watson. But I did finally feel the friendship between them in this episode, and it was so sad. Especially when they were sort of reaching out to each other and not touching, when Sherlock was on the roof. Wibble.
Also: Jen from The IT Crowd was in this episode! <3 Which brings me neatly into what I really wanted to talk about, which is the women of Sherlock. I know that A Scandal In Begravia was accused of being sexist because Irene failed to beat Sherlock, as she did in the original. Instead, he guessed her password, defeated her and saved her life. I've only seen it once, so I doubt I'm qualified to talk about if it was sexist or not. But…Irene dies in the original stories. By the time Watson starts writing A Scandal In Bohemia, she’s now ‘the late Irene Adler’. Assuming that there’s not that long between the story taking place and Watson writing it, Irene died young. So in the original, she dies. In the new one, she lives. That sounds good to me. Everything else (her role as dominatrix, her being saved by a man…) I’ll let smarter people go over.
And then there’s Molly. I LOVE HER. I even hastily made an icon of her so I could use it on this post. Her role in The Reichenbach Fall was so quiet but so, so important- Sherlock disregarded her for so long, but she persisted on being his friend, on trying to help. Moriarty thought he’d targeted all Sherlock’s friends, but that one girl, that one lovely compassionate clever girl, she slipped under his radar and she was the key to the whole thing. Moriarty used her, and then ignored her, and that was a bad mistake. I’ma gonna point you towards Molly’s entry on the official Sherlock site- “…she’s good at her job and, in some ways, far more perceptive about the real Sherlock than he is himself.” Irene Adler might have been the only woman to know who Sherlock was, but Molly knew the man he could grow to be.
I love her okay? I could write PAGES about her. She’s great. Anyway-
One more woman to discuss: Sally Donovan. I hate that everyone seems to hate her so much…and calling her a ‘whore’, or a ‘cunt’, I really hate that.
She’s a cop. She weighed up the evidence as she saw it and came to a not unreasonable conclusion. And- as unpopular as this opinion might be- I can easily see why she would distrust and dislike Sherlock. Don’t forget, she’s a black woman in a profession still dominated by white men. She’s probably worked all her life to get away from people like him.
I LIKE HER OKAY.