No problem, I get where F!S is kind of a minefield, having just gotten into a stupid argument with an anon there myself which I'm still trying to get myself to ignore.

And I've seen plenty of legitimate complaints about what they did as far as Watson's back story, so I don't think that's racist at all... if anything the posts I've seen about that are saying that Lucy Liu deserves to play a better character, so.

I don't think American TV was ever even contemplating doing Sherlock and Watson as a gay couple. So I guess that's part of why I don't relate as much to that objection to the casting -- I mean I really don't think anyone even thought "We'll make her a woman or this will be too gay!" My bias I guess?

Yet, yeah, they do want to escape having gay couples in general and that is pretty sad. Just it doesn't bother me particularly that they don't do it in this particular show, but that doesn't mean every single person who wants to see that is a racist.

/rambling, sorry.

P.S. I'd be more likely to watch it if they made Sherlock and Watson women. But what do I know.