againstthespiritofsurprisingrice:
A trans woman will be playing a trans woman on Elementary.
More and more I feel like Robert Doherty was at some point a hardcore Sherlock fan who became fed up and went “I SHALL MAKE MY OWN SHOW WITH WOMEN AND MINORITIES EXPLORING ADDICTION STIGMA, ALSO MYSTERIES.”
Bless him.
I haven’t read past the first sentence of this post. I can’t. I am too choked up to go further. Oh my gosh, I am sitting here crying.
A trans woman will be playing a trans woman on Elementary.
RIGHT!? I was like… WHAT. Right. *fireworks*
hmmmm *considers giving this show another go*
It got soooo much better after the first couple of episodes.
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She was an exquisite painter. She made her living restoring Renaissance paintings for art museums. She travelled extensively because of her work. She was…highly intelligent, optimistic about the human condition. Usually consider it a sign of stupidity but with Irene it seemed…almost convincing. She was, to me, The Woman. To me, she preclipsed and predominated the whole of her gender. The only one I ever—
Nice.
(Source: lastisle)
elementary is for everyone.
!!! !!! ! ! !
Oh my God YES.
I need to watch Elementary, because I’ve heard such amazing stories of how it handles its characters.
Yes, you should! And don’t give up after the first three episodes. I wasn’t entirely thrilled with the writing on the first few. But oh man, it’s so good.
If you look at the percentage of ethnicities and the percentage of women on television now, it’s such a different time. That’s how you keep things current. You update and you change them accordingly.
People probably thought the same thing about the president of the United States, how is it possible that you have someone who’s not Caucasian, in that vision. I think things are shifting quite a bit.
It’s nice to be able to portray an Asian-American on camera without having an accent, or without having to be spoofy. And I think that’s a big step forward, because there are still representations of people that are more comedic. And that’s not what I’m playing.
I’m just playing somebody who represents anyone else who would be living in America or outside of it, who is just a regular person.
Jonny Lee Miller’s photo spread/interview in April’s issue of In Style!
Looking sharp, sir.
I’m sort of in love with Elementary.
I love all the Elementary haters who pull the “you’re ruining ACD canon by making Watson a woman!” like ok
In canon
- Moriarty’s first name was James. He had a brother named James. He also had another brother. Named James.
- Watson was called John and also James by his wife
- ACD pretty much forgot where he said Watson had been shot because he refers to the wound in three separate areas
ACD stone cold did not give a fuck.
PREACH
(Source: lady-tyrell)
sighhhhhhhhhhh
Seeing people complain about how the impact of having a woman on the show would have been stronger if Lucy Liu was Sherlock instead of Watson makes me facepalm. Because that’s assuming Asian women don’t face any special issues that white women don’t, that what works for empowering white women translates directly to empowering Asian women, and it’s just not. true.
Like yeah, if it was a white woman being thought of as the smartest person in the world, I follow my logic instead of being ruled by my emotions, I’m so freakishly smart that everyone thinks I’m weird, woohooo go you, that’s defeating stereotypes that have been levied against you. But for an Asian Sherlock, she would already be expected to have all of those qualities just because she is Asian. You see an Asian face and already you know that you are supposed to think “cold, calculating, emotionless machine that spits out information.” So just the act of casting (NOT FACTORING IN THE ACTUAL CHARACTERIZATION) Lucy Liu as Sherlock isn’t actually as revolutionary as some people think it would be?
