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tabbystardust:

I made this graphic because some people like to complain that changing the gender/sex of the characters somehow “ruins” or “desecrates” Arthur Conan Doyle’s legacy. Funnily enough nobody ever complains when they are turned into mice, dogs, etc. (Presumably because they are still male.) As you can see there have been several female versions of these characters in the past, and they have hardly ruined anything.

Some of the oldest adaptations only had the actor info for Holmes on IMDB, so either Watson didn’t exist in those films at all, or the actor is unknown. (If he did exist it’s pretty safe to assume he was male.)

I excluded incarnations where Holmes/Watson only appeared once as guest stars in unrelated tv shows. (There were lots.

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SHERLOCK: These are magnificent creatures. Clyde will likely outlive both of us. You didn’t really think I would eat him, did you?

JOAN: I don’t know. I guess it’s hard to know what you’re going to do

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evawrites:

another thing Elementary did well:

“I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion- hunter has done. Who knows?”

Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

Basically, Sherlock Holmes says he completely understands torturing and murdering a dude who has tortured and murdered the woman he loves.  If he loved.  As he did in Elementary—love Irene, that is.

Still LIVID about the fridging, don’t get me wrong.  But Sherlock’s actions concerning Moran in M?  Completely ACD canonical.