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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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I feel like he'd be default kind of conservative only in the sense that he's too lazy to learn any NEW social niceties and he'd be quite put out if the few he DID bother to learn turned out to be out of date
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite
Yeah his main concern with Enola - or any other woman who impinged on his life - would be to get her out of his life so he could stop thinking about her as soon as possible
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