07-21-2014, 10:34 PM
(07-21-2014, 08:33 PM)WITCHDOCTOR FANTASTIC Wrote: Maybe I'm missing the part of my brain that feels womanly pride, but I've never really detected misogyny in Sherlock. Or Doctor Who, though it's more understandable to me why people would find his insistance on having a pretty lady companion a bit funny. Eh, I don't know.
I think both characters are essentially disdainful of everyone who isn't as smart as them, regardless of gender. (As was early Sheldon.) The Doctor is a bit less obvious about it, most of the time, having had longer to observe various social behaviours.
(The Companion bit - the show was originally supposed to be educational, Susan as the audience stand-in, and a couple of teachers as chaperones, until they made her a grandchild. The New Who, with the much lesser visual age gap, let the fangirls off the leash. The progressively more special the snowflake gets, the more irritated I get - it just turns into Self-Insert Mary-Sue when the audience POV character becomes the pivot of all space and time and the only one that can save the multiverse. Bleh.)