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Racist or sexist…Hm. Watson can only be a white man y’all! Also, shouldn’t we be BEYOND looks? Like, if she plays a good…

So, you say you read the stories, but you didn’t READ them. The point of Watson being male is…

“So, you say you read the stories, but you didn’t READ them. The point of Watson being male is the PLATONIC relationship that builds between a man that is, for all intents and purposes, an introverted sociopath and a man who gets him to be human, if only around him.”

Right, because a relationship between a man and a woman can’t be platonic. You don’t know what CBS is planning. You’re just assuming that it won’t be played platonically.

“And you speak of Adler, THE Woman. Good lord, you really don’t understand the story, do you? Adler was only ever mentioned in A Scandal in Bohemia, and even though that is my favorite story, she is not supposed to be a main character. They shouldn’t try and shove Adler in as some interest or a long standing character because the point of Sherlock Holmes is his life of almost perpetual lack of relationships, again, I go back to Watson and his friendship.”

Sorry, I like tits in my stories. Make Sherlock a woman (or heck, both Holmes AND Watson) and then maybe we’ll talk about why it may or may not be important for modern interpretations to include Adler as a strong, independent female character. Conan Doyle was a slave to his times - we don’t have to be. If you’re making a show that’s supposed to be purely accurate to the originals, then sure, play a Scandal in Bohemia word-for-word, but I think adaptions without that professed purpose are free from that. Therefore, there’s no reason for Adler not to be included as a returning character. Either that, or go back in time and make Mary Russell a canon character.

“Because the dynamic is wrong.
And that’s why the fans are mad. Not your racist, sexist rant.”

Your rant is a sexist rant, it’s just more cleverly disguised. The snide remarks about Irene Adler are unnecessary fyi.

“Arthur Conan Doyle might have only written Sherlock for the money, but he’d destroy the character for all the crap that’s been done to them and the series.”

You’re a close, personal acquaintance with Conan Doyle then? You’ve summoned his ghost in some eldrich circle and had a chat about Lucy Liu as Watson? I could just as easily say “Conan Doyle would destroy the character if he knew people were writing him in a gay relationship with Watson” or “Conan Doyle would be turning in his grave if he knew a half-assed hack like Moffat was writing Sherlock.” See how ridiculous that sounds?

Holmes is a blank slate. Anything can be done with it, and the notion that that impacts or insults the original material in some way is ridiculous. And I’ll remind you that Conan Doyle DID try to destroy his character. He tossed him off a fucking cliff and it didn’t kill him.

Sure, CBS could completely take this move balls-up, and, personally, I wish they’d genderbent Sherlock if they needed to genderbend somebody, or they’d made them both girls, or they’d made them both men (or women) and played it like a real gay relationship. But until they do screw this up, I am in complete support of Lucy Liu as Watson.

This is a real thing.