sherlockismyholmesboy:

oxfordtweed:

° Watson is no longer the accomplished and decorated war hero and army doctor, two aspects of the character which have always, in some way or another, coloured the way the character behaves and the decisions they make. Not only does it change the character, but it sends a message that women aren’t capable of fighting for their country.

° Related to the above, Watson has no longer been invalided home from anywhere. Again, this is not only important to the character, but sends a message that war wounds are only sexy on men and that women are too weak to go through that.

° She’s a disgraced surgeon who’s lost her license. Oh. Not only has she had the military career erased, but she’s incompetent as well? Fabulous. There are so many other reasons for her to be able to be Jonny Lee Miller’s Boswell without also taking away the one thing that does make her successful. This is completely unnecessary, and once again sends the message that women can’t cope in fields that are predominately male-dominated.

°Joan Three Continents Watson will never fly. As much as I’d love to see this aspect remain intact, I strongly doubt it will. And I think this will be the biggest disappointment of the lot.


Poor reasons to be annoyed with CBS right now:

° Watson is a woman, so all the gay will be erased. What gay, exactly? The only Holmes I can ever recall as being canonically stated as gay was from the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and Watson was horrified to learn this. All other adaptations where homosexuality is mentioned have been rife with ‘lol they said “gay”’ jokes.

° Watson being a woman will kill the ship. Yes, because heterosexuals are so disgusting. Oh wait…

° I prefer to look at manmeat in my porn. … I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. I can’t even begin to articulate how ridiculous this is.



TL;DR: Yes. it is fine and dandy to be upset for CBS, but a lot of people are being upset for the WAY wrong reasons.

Holy shit, is this ever a welcoming sight to see. Somewhat. I didn’t know they made her a disgraced surgeon instead of an army doctor, which pisses me off slightly. Way to pave the way off in the opposite direction, CBS.

What happened to “Watson was a genius in his own right?” This is worrying. I would love to see a BAMF Joan Watson, but that doesn’t sound like what they’re doing. Getting harder and harder not to prejudge with every new piece of information.