neadods | FFS, Elementary!

At least the Ritchie movies showed Irene as smart and proactive before Moriarty stuck her in the fridge. Elementary gives her NOTHING - no screen time, no personality, NOTHING except a gruesome death for the specific purpose of warning Sherlemantary off a case and spinning him into drug addiction.

And then there's the Joan issue. Not that John recast as a woman of color is a problem, but the constant demeaning sexism she's putting up with? So far Sherlementary's "father" and a Baker Street Irregular have implied she's a whore; [spoiler] asked if Sherlmentary was banging her, Sherlementary himself tried to hire her as assistant *and housekeeper* -- that there, THAT'S a big damned problem.

It's everything I feared, listening to the producer going on and on about ~~his~~ Sherlementary's woman issues. He didn't cast Joan to be an advance; he cast someone he could have the hero and just about everyone associated with him treat as second-class snatch and everyone's supposed to be so pleased on the rare occasions when he can be arsed to be halfway nice to her. I suppose someone has to do the job, now that Joan has decided that putting up with that bullshit is so fascinating that she'll do it for free. I've had a problem all along with people acting against their own self interest in this show, and you can't get much more self-destructive than to lie to your client, throw away a second career, and suck up that shitty attitude of Sherlementary's for free. I'm supposed to be rooting for Joan, not wanting to smack some sense into her.

What the fuck is next, Joan singing "he hit me and it felt like a kiss"?

Hell of a rewrite for literature's most famous friendship.