February 2012
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…Holmes and Watson are not portrayed as openly gay in any adaptation I’ve seen....
– Sarah Rees Brennan on people charging that casting Lucy Liu as Watson is homophobic [x] (via theopensea)
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Romola Garai's directorial debut 'Scrubber'. →
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Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock... →
martinusmiraculorum:
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction...
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squintyoureyes:
it’s depressing to realize how often fans’ ability to be nice to people/women/characters of color is conditional. the idea of them is pleasant enough and they’re fine in the background but the minute they hook up with a lead character, or take center stage for too long, or god forbid take a spot that used to be a white persons’, the minute they in any way move out of their...
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Tumblr: America needs to stop being racist and sexist, pay more attention to women and PoC ok
CBS: Hey guys guess what we decided Watson should be played by a Taiwanese, female actress in our version of Sherlock Holmes
Tumblr: NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT HOW DARE YOU I AM BOYCOTTING YOUR SHOW I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED
#i don't feel like it's a show i would watch (cbs? well then) #but the fact that they decided to go against the grain #and hire not only a woman #but one of non-white descent #that's progressive #so i'm really ashamed of all the posts and reblogs i've seen complaining against it #if you dont like it just dont watch it #but dont you dare fucking complain when a talented woman earned a role because of her talent
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better living through beyonce: sherlocked replied... →
squintyoureyes:
sherlocked replied to your photo
I like Lucy Liu, and I’m pleased they’re casting a WOC as Watson because TV NEVER does that, but I’m worried they’re just doing this so they can slap them together while avoiding homoeroticism or, heaven forbid, gay people.
welllllllll
n my experience network television rarely ever shies away from homoerotic subtext between two white male...
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Some Girls is about the lives and loves of a group of quirky 16-year-old girls...
– Filming begins on Some Girls for BBC Three
They talk about everything from history homework to their ambitions in life. They share everything: their clothes, their moods, their secrets and - occasionally - their mothers’ tranquillisers.
GUYS.
(via keppps)
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