Sherlock’s quite a small world, actually, so we can’t do everything in that. But to take the other show… Doctor Who, I think, can do more, and should do more. And we’re working harder every year to try and get that better. But the perspective that I always look at is that I don’t think about it – and nobody should think about it – as ‘satisfying the activists’ or ‘satisfying the pressure groups’. That’s not what’s important. What you’ve got to be saying to children is that you are all welcome, and that there are loads of people like you, and you all belong out there in this space, in the future, and that’s what matters. The ticking boxes exercise is never going to work, because it ends in what you call tokenism.
Steven Moffat asked
‘How do you deal with treading the line between representation and tokenism within the show?’ (
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Saying it again bc it’s more appropriate on this quote –
So if it ended with bad female characters, and bad gay characters and a big gay gun over the mantel that never went off, and the aces are pissed about “romantic entanglements,” and the neurodivergent folks are upset at how both Sherlock and Eurus were handled, and even the dogs in the audience are barking about dog erasure, then what are we looking at as an “improvement?” Hudders got more lines in t6t?
They literally could have done better even in this “small” show without sacrificing any “plot” or making anyone feel like they were “checking boxes.” For god’s sake, we DON’T want you to check boxes, we want you to UNcheck a couple you didn’t need. Leave out one line, for example, don’t make Eurus queer and rapey; done. And tell me, where has the show lost any integrity without that?
There, that one’s free, off you pop and do better now, boys.
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