The absence of women is my biggest problem with it as well. Sarah had some promising moments but generally just faded into the background as 'generic love interest' and beyond that there was really nothing. I was especially annoyed by the bitchy female detective who served only to be a bitch and for Sherlock to make an ~hilarious~ joke about her giving the jerky policeman a blow job. Colour me unimpressed.
Omg Lestrade as a woman would have been brilliant. Why did they not think of that?! *sigh* It is a problem, I think, that was almost sadly to be expected when you have a show based on a Victorian text that is pretty of its time with the casual sexism/ignoring of women, written by men (awesome men who are often very good writers, but still suffering from the all-too-typical problem of forgetting the existence of women in the universe) who are crazy fanboys of the text and so just never think of developing those oh, what do you call them...oh yeah, female characters.
Hopefully it will improve next year though. Generally I was impressed with the writing and the modernisation and the first episode especially was excellent. They did just have a lot of issues with casual sexism, racism and homophobia via stereotype. Which is tragic.
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Date: 2010-09-16 09:19 pm (UTC)Omg Lestrade as a woman would have been brilliant. Why did they not think of that?! *sigh* It is a problem, I think, that was almost sadly to be expected when you have a show based on a Victorian text that is pretty of its time with the casual sexism/ignoring of women, written by men (awesome men who are often very good writers, but still suffering from the all-too-typical problem of forgetting the existence of women in the universe) who are crazy fanboys of the text and so just never think of developing those oh, what do you call them...oh yeah, female characters.
Hopefully it will improve next year though. Generally I was impressed with the writing and the modernisation and the first episode especially was excellent. They did just have a lot of issues with casual sexism, racism and homophobia via stereotype. Which is tragic.
Anyway, will stop wittering now!
xxx