Oh yes, the 'scrubbing floors' joke was hilarious. Not.
Seriously, Lestrade-as-woman would not have even needed to have an altered script! Unless, of course, they then felt the need to comment on "look at me, I'm a woman". I've talked to a couple of RL people about it and have been told that, basically, I should just suck it up and accept it because the source material doesn't really have women in, but that is just a terrible argument (and to my mind also quite offensive, since it suggests that our attitudes have yet to move on from Victorian times). As you say, the modernisation was very impressive, which just highlights the fails even more.
I did also like all the many references to the source material which were thrown in, though, which I forgot to mention above. That was lovely for a book-geek :D
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Seriously, Lestrade-as-woman would not have even needed to have an altered script! Unless, of course, they then felt the need to comment on "look at me, I'm a woman". I've talked to a couple of RL people about it and have been told that, basically, I should just suck it up and accept it because the source material doesn't really have women in, but that is just a terrible argument (and to my mind also quite offensive, since it suggests that our attitudes have yet to move on from Victorian times). As you say, the modernisation was very impressive, which just highlights the fails even more.
I did also like all the many references to the source material which were thrown in, though, which I forgot to mention above. That was lovely for a book-geek :D