![]() I love the female characters Mofftiss have brought in / fleshed out to breath life into this show. I was not in any way saying that I think Sherlock is anti-feminist. That said, we do have characters like Molly and Janine now in the storyline, so perhaps in S4 the Bechdel test will be passed. (Even the most memorable female creation within the Holmes universe, Irene Adler, appears in a story where she is important because of the men she is affiliated with.) Since the show has stayed as true to the source material as it can with some obvious changes (modern setting, etc), I'm not surprised that we don't see a lot of female characters having discussions in the show. The only female characters in ACD canon are either clients of Holmes, Mrs Hudson, or "love interests" of either Holmes or Watson pretty much everyone else is male, and most of the female characters don't speak a whole lot anyway. With the exception of Molly Hooper, the writers have shied away from conjuring up brand new characters and plot lines that were not even tangentially in the original Holmes stories, and said stories were populated by - for the most part - male characters. I'm pretty sure it fails the Bechdel test, but that's probably not attributed to the fault of the writing as it is attributed to how closely Moftiss adhere to the ACD source material.
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