Henry Cavill striding out of Scotland Yard yelling HAH! needs to be a GIF
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I don't know how I feel about the fact that famous superdumbass Lestrade is played by one of the two POC in this film
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah I mean eventually the books come around to Lestrade not being such a bad guy But he's a cop and ACAB And TV always makes the cop or the judge or the school principal or the medieval Captain of the Guard a PoC
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Well, and Lestrade's entire purpose of existing is to be WRONG so that Sherlock looks smarter when he's inevitably right. I mean, he's not necessarily bad (except he's a cop, but on a sliding scale!), but he's not very good at investigating
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
He's a bad investigator because of his ACAB traits, his eagerness to jump to conclusions of guilt and arrest someone, what Sherlock calls his lack of imagination is just as much a lack of empathy, adherence to conventional prejudice So yes, making him a PoC is unfortunate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
I mean how do they even justify that periodwise, it's Victorian London
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Exactly. I don't want to be the person who whines that any POC representation in period pieces is hIsToRiCaLlY iNaCcUrAtE, but this just rings of badly-thought-out tokenism
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect
I have no idea what to say about the Black Suffragist and possibly-terrorist teahouse proprietress who teaches jiujitsu and dispenses wisdom to white girls, either
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
It's one of those unfortunate implications things "Wow, feminists back then had all these superpowers and whatnot and it still took them that long to get the vote? I guess they weren't trying that hard"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It also doesn't hit the balance between modern liberal sensibilities and past liberal sensibilities. I think the books mostly do pretty well walking that line, so you get a sense of how the discourse has evolved since their time. The movie yanks things violently forward 140 years
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Yeah the classic trope in these movies where someone is just like "As an apparent time traveler from the 21st century I think all of this society's values are stupid" and the whole society is just like "Gosh we've sure been made to look foolish"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
In this scenario Mycroft represents the monocle-popping fool blustering "MOST UNORTHODOX" but everybody else has seen the light so they ignore him till he harrumphs off to have a smoke or something
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
I hate that it's somehow become fanon that Mycroft is a judgmental conservative This is a guy who's literally so hopeless at social niceties in canon he founded a club where you're not allowed to talk at all
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