I'm getting in my decade's allotment of talking about Lucy Liu

[seriousfic]

Can we please never, under pain of torture, NEVER make the argument that Watson can't be a woman because it "goes against the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle"? Because I'm going to give it to you straight-up. They already made a Sherlock Holmes TV show that was perfectly faithful and accurate to the source material. Jeremy Brett was in it.


Yes. This is exactly how they looked. Go home everyone.

And it was awesome. But they pretty much did the whole thing. You know how people say that we don't need another Superman movie because the Christopher Reeve Superman was so good? They're wrong--we never really got a Clark/Lois HEA/relationship, or the Fourth World, or the post-Crisis Luthor, etc etc, pick your poison. There's room to redo it. But Sherlock Holmes--they filmed all the stories with a guy who's perfect for the part. They actually filmed it in Britain, back when everything still looked the same as it did in Sherlock Holmes's time period.

So, this isn't a bug, this is a feature. The only reason to do anything with Sherlock Holmes is to take the near-universal concept and toy with it. You can set it in modern times, play up the bromance--but drawing a line at incorporating a woman into things is pretty much sexist on the face, unless you're going to decry the other Sherlock Holmes cinema for including texting and drag queens.


As intended by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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