Creative Nonsense

morganarhalina:

Since taking on this blogging position, I have been struggling to find works that would appeal to the audience that Amazing Stories has, particularly those

Why the Nausicaa manga is waaaaay better than the movie, and how it’s actually epic fantasy.

Also awesomely womanly.

thewrongkhristol:

crossedwires:

irresistible-revolution:

ambthecreative:

And apparently this makes this version of Irene Adler better than Sherlock’s Irene Adler because it makes her more idependent.

Still. No.

I haven’t watched Elementary. I refused to watch it because…

Sigh. 

People can write an entire book about how awesome Elementary’s Joan Watson is amazing and equal to Sherlock and etc etc. And it won’t matter one little bit, because it refuses to address a very simple fact. 

Sherlock Holmes is a LEGENDARY ICON. It’s called the SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE for a REASON.

There isn’t a Joan Watson franchise. It doesn’t exist. 

Everyone is too busy defending the hell out of Elementary to see it from the objective P.O.V. This is where NOT watching the show is better for this kind of discussion. 

Look. If you are a woman and of a race that isn’t white, and you love the hell out of Elementary. Awesome. Great! I’m glad you found something you find awesome. 

Still. 

I want a female Sherlock Holmes. 

The End. 

EDIT: I’ve glanced over the previous super long post that I didn’t read because it makes false conclusions about me (I don’t like Sherlock more than Elementary, I am not defending Sherlock nor am defending BBC or I don’t know what else is up there that is incorrect about me). 

I am not against Elementary. I am not for BBC over all or all white, sexist shows. I’ve watched Sherlock. I haven’t watched Elementary. I don’t know which is the better show. I am not going to argue that (though the US networks created Elementary because of Sherlock instead of creating something original. THAT is where I stand there, not about BBC and white men or anything of that nature).

I am against the idea when they decided to make a character that is usually male into a female, they chose the supporting main cast instead of the main iconic character. That is all. 

yeahbeeswax:

ambthecreative:

yeahbeeswax:

ambthecreative:

And apparently this makes this version of Irene Adler better than Sherlock’s Irene Adler because it makes her more idependent.

Still. No.

I haven’t watched Elementary. I refused to watch it because of A. It’s a stolen idea they stole from the BBC (and yes it does seem like they made it their…

Wow, this is wrong in so many levels that I don’t even know where to start.

Did you ever think for a minute that the reason Irene/Moriarty and Joan are women in Elementary is because they’re not just “women”? They’re not just “the minimal villain” or “the sidekick”?

Let me tell you something:

Moriarty/Irene is the antagonist of the whole first season. Her plans changed the whole events in the life of Sherlock Holmes because she want to. Because she is a business woman, a ‘murder pimp’, as she describe her job. Because of Moriarty, we have the premise of the whole show. You know she is an awesome character? Because the writers took the most cliché and stereotyped tropes (the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the Mary Sue, the Femme Fatale and the Damsel in Distress) and deconstructed all of them. They showed how the concept of Irene Adler in the canon is sexist and problematic, how it creates standards for womanhood and deconstructed it to the bones. With it, they created a truly tridimensional Moriarty, a well developed villain with a consistent modus operandi and flaws. Flaws that doesn’t are “being in love with the protagonist” or “being childish”. Moriarty is cold, professional, gets the job done and is extremely arrogant. 

Joan Watson is one of the most amazing characters I’ve seen in a tv show. She deconstructs the whole concept of ‘The Watson’. She is not only the sidekick. She is one of the protagonists of the show. She is the only person who can put the male protagonist down with words - not even Moriarty could do it. She is admired for everyone, including the male protagonist, and not because she is hot or pretty. She is highly intelligent, tridimensional and interesting. The point of the series, besides the relationship between her and Sherlock, is to show that a woman doesn’t need to look for a man to be happy. Joan is looking for professional success and a purpose in her life and she found it because she is good at it. She is a woman of color who screwed up the plans of the big villain, the one who beated Sherlock Holmes, a white person who underestimated her. Also, she was underestimated in the whole season, in universe and in the real life. By the Sherlock fandom, by other fandoms, by people who thought Lucy Liu was a bad actress and should do Charlie’s Angels 3 instead of Dr. Watson, by Sherlock, by her friends in the show, by Gregson, etc. The writers used it to show how this is dangerous, how this can damage a person and it was explored in one episode (1.18). She showed to everyone she is amazing by herself. She is not the best friend of color, the sidekick of color, the love interest of color. She is the motherfucking protagonist, she saved the male protagonist’s ass countless times, she solved by herself the most important cases of the whole season (1.01 the first case of the series, 1.18 two cases at the same time includi’ng Sherlock’s, 1.22 Moriarty’s last puzzle and 1.24 Moriarty herself), she is the heroine of the show, not Sherlock.

There are flaws in Elementary? Yes, there are. But fiction is written by real people. Real people have flaws. Our world is flawed. Is virtually impossible to have perfect fiction, we could only try to be better. If you can’t see how Joan and Irene/Moriarty are extremely important, your feminism is broken.

You don’t get it. 

If she really was the heroine, she would have her own show and she wouldn’t be playing a character that is based on a sidekick character. It doesn’t matter what she does. It doesn’t matter. Because she is Joan Watson, based off John Watson, who’s first role (among many roles) is to be Sherlock’s companion, roommate and writer. 

As long as it’s a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, she will never be as important as Sherlock Holmes. No matter what happens. The only way you can change that is if you go back in time, and make John Watson the main character of the original books. Do that, then you can say she is the heroine of the show. 

There would be no Elementary if there was was no Sherlock Holmes.

My opinions are based solely on the whole female protagonist in mainstream media pov. The story is probably awesome. Watson and Adler probably kick major ass.

But I am not satisfied until you have a character as legendary as Sherlock Holmes be played as a woman. The fact that they didn’t go there, when they could have, disappoints me greatly. 

Please.

You didn’t get the whole point. She is not the sidekick. The show subverted the “sidekick” concept. She is the protagonist along with Sherlock. Do you have a problem just because the show has two protagonists and one of them is male? It should be only Joan? Please please please. No. 

The show spent 24 episodes to show that while Sherlock Holmes is the one who everybody thought it was the hero and the smart one, Watson is the one who gets the job done and cracks up the mastermind. It’s a subversion of the Sherlock Holmes franchise concept itself.

I get the idea of a female Holmes, but I think it’s more interesting to subvert all the current values and show that things are not what they seem to be. It makes the narrative more rich.

But clearly you are unsatisfied and this would not change anything, I’m sorry and I don’t want to be be rude, I’m just saying your initial reasons to not watch the show are really really strange. I’m a feminist and a woman of color and this show is very important to me.

I’m not saying the show is bad. I’m not dissing the show. I never seen the show.

It’s the ideas. But even more, its the reaction to those ideas.

My reasons for not watching the show are opinionated and principle based. I am against shows based off other shows and then twisted so it’s pretty much a completely different show but they don’t have the balls to change the names so they can reap the fame of work done by someone else.

And the women thing.

I actually have no real issue with the show itself. The show is terrific, judging by the love it gets.

My problem is… I’m just worried, this is as far as we’ll get. 

Watson can be a woman and be equal to Sherlock Holmes, but that’s it.

IronMan3 spoiler:

Pepper Pots can have temporary super powers and take down the villain and save Iron Man, but that’s it  (By the way, that was one of my favorite scenes in the movie)

Or whatever. And people cheer and applaud and that’s it. 

I say, NO! That’s not it! Keep going. 

And that’s basically the main message of this whole rant. 

Not that it’s no good. 

But that it’s good.

But it’s Not Enough.

yeahbeeswax:

ambthecreative:

And apparently this makes this version of Irene Adler better than Sherlock’s Irene Adler because it makes her more idependent.

Still. No.

I haven’t watched Elementary. I refused to watch it because of A. It’s a stolen idea they stole from the BBC (and yes it does seem like they made it their…

Wow, this is wrong in so many levels that I don’t even know where to start.

Did you ever think for a minute that the reason Irene/Moriarty and Joan are women in Elementary is because they’re not just “women”? They’re not just “the minimal villain” or “the sidekick”?

Let me tell you something:

Moriarty/Irene is the antagonist of the whole first season. Her plans changed the whole events in the life of Sherlock Holmes because she want to. Because she is a business woman, a ‘murder pimp’, as she describe her job. Because of Moriarty, we have the premise of the whole show. You know she is an awesome character? Because the writers took the most cliché and stereotyped tropes (the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the Mary Sue, the Femme Fatale and the Damsel in Distress) and deconstructed all of them. They showed how the concept of Irene Adler in the canon is sexist and problematic, how it creates standards for womanhood and deconstructed it to the bones. With it, they created a truly tridimensional Moriarty, a well developed villain with a consistent modus operandi and flaws. Flaws that doesn’t are “being in love with the protagonist” or “being childish”. Moriarty is cold, professional, gets the job done and is extremely arrogant. 

Joan Watson is one of the most amazing characters I’ve seen in a tv show. She deconstructs the whole concept of ‘The Watson’. She is not only the sidekick. She is one of the protagonists of the show. She is the only person who can put the male protagonist down with words - not even Moriarty could do it. She is admired for everyone, including the male protagonist, and not because she is hot or pretty. She is highly intelligent, tridimensional and interesting. The point of the series, besides the relationship between her and Sherlock, is to show that a woman doesn’t need to look for a man to be happy. Joan is looking for professional success and a purpose in her life and she found it because she is good at it. She is a woman of color who screwed up the plans of the big villain, the one who beated Sherlock Holmes, a white person who underestimated her. Also, she was underestimated in the whole season, in universe and in the real life. By the Sherlock fandom, by other fandoms, by people who thought Lucy Liu was a bad actress and should do Charlie’s Angels 3 instead of Dr. Watson, by Sherlock, by her friends in the show, by Gregson, etc. The writers used it to show how this is dangerous, how this can damage a person and it was explored in one episode (1.18). She showed to everyone she is amazing by herself. She is not the best friend of color, the sidekick of color, the love interest of color. She is the motherfucking protagonist, she saved the male protagonist’s ass countless times, she solved by herself the most important cases of the whole season (1.01 the first case of the series, 1.18 two cases at the same time includi’ng Sherlock’s, 1.22 Moriarty’s last puzzle and 1.24 Moriarty herself), she is the heroine of the show, not Sherlock.

There are flaws in Elementary? Yes, there are. But fiction is written by real people. Real people have flaws. Our world is flawed. Is virtually impossible to have perfect fiction, we could only try to be better. If you can’t see how Joan and Irene/Moriarty are extremely important, your feminism is broken.

You don’t get it. 

If she really was the heroine, she would have her own show and she wouldn’t be playing a character that is based on a sidekick character. It doesn’t matter what she does. It doesn’t matter. Because she is Joan Watson, based off John Watson, who’s first role (among many roles) is to be Sherlock’s companion, roommate and writer. 

As long as it’s a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, she will never be as important as Sherlock Holmes. No matter what happens. The only way you can change that is if you go back in time, and make John Watson the main character of the original books. Do that, then you can say she is the heroine of the show. 

There would be no Elementary if there was was no Sherlock Holmes.

My opinions are based solely on the whole female protagonist in mainstream media pov. The story is probably awesome. Watson and Adler probably kick major ass.

But I am not satisfied until you have a character as legendary as Sherlock Holmes be played as a woman. The fact that they didn’t go there, when they could have, disappoints me greatly. 

therealerice:

Still reeling from the epicness that is Star Trek Into Darkness, I went ahead and searched for tags for #Khan expecting a bunch of Benedict Cumberbatch appreciation posts. Boy, was I wrong.

Apparently, there are many people who are in an uproar that Benedict…

EXACTLY. 

Also, if you protest Khan being played by a white man, then you cannot say a word towards those who protest Johnny Storm being played by a black man. 

That’s not what equality means people! 

In my opinion, race is a color. That’s it. A movie is a canvas. Go nuts. Want it all white? Make it all white.  Want it all black? Awesome! Want it a mixed rainbow? How about an assortment of asians and a dash of black, but no true whites? Sounds good. Lets do it!