i-am-watsoned:

watermeloncholy:

lttlmisslst:

reallysherlock:

freakxwannaxbe:

One of these is not like the other ones

WTF America. Just WTF.

It pains me too look at.

GOD FORBID AN ASIAN WOMAN INSTEAD OF A WHITE MALE 

ALERT THE PRESSES

IT’S THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD

2012 HAS BEGUN 

THIS HURTS MY HEART 

I’M THROWING UP BLOOD 

AMERICAN DIVERSITY QUOTAS IS RUINING OUR WHITE MALE FANTASY 

/my impression of fans who are too stupid to function 

I really fail to see how this casting choice can fall under the ‘OH BUMBLING AMERICA’ umbrella that the rest of the world likes to hoist. This seems to be taken as a matter of American’s ignorance rather than a conscious decision that a group of people made. The people doing the casting were not confused as to what Watson canonically and generally (in terms of adaptations) looks like. They are trying something new.

I’ve seen so many people who have projected the worst possible face onto this by saying things like

• they’re just doing it so that they can have a gay couple who is not actually gay!
• they just want to sexualize all the things!!!!!11!one
• what
• are you
• talking
• about
• no one has made it clear that this was the intention of this casting choice AT ALL

All we know, is that Lucy Liu is going to be playing Watson. And there are a lot of ways that this could be a huge fuck up, but it won’t be because she’s a woman, or because she’s Asian, or because ‘she doesn’t look like how Watson traditionally does.’ If there is a problem, it will be because of the writing, not because Watson is a woman, and no one is going to know that until the show is actually on.

If you don’t want to divert so far from the canon, or you don’t like having a female for whatever reason, then fine. Don’t watch it. That is fine. But please, stop acting as though American’s are somehow fundamentally flawed for choosing to cast an Asian woman instead of a white man.

This is an adaptation. It’s success is not judged on how well, in your mind, it copies the adaptation that have come before it.