talesfromtheend:

repair-her-armor:

[Please take note that the commentary is just for fun. Bunch of sarcasm. Don’t take it too seriously. I am getting tired of these outfits, though.]

1. The classic Bikini Armor. If you’re lucky you might get an actual shoulder-pad! If the designers even bother…

Hahaha I recognise most of these from specific MMOs.

Hello TERA and Guild Wars 2.

Holy crap these are great lol

There needs to be a phylogenetic tree for terrible armor design. We can sort this shit with science.

Can I just say that I love that this episode was titled “Heroine”

It has the obvious connection to heroin, which I will get back to but then the two women are the heroines of their own stories. 

Irene/Moriarty is the heroine in her conflict with Holmes, she beat him. In her story, she is the protagonist and the winner.

Then Joan, precious Joan, SHE is the one to beat Moriarty. SHE is the heroine of not only her story, but the show. Not Sherlock, but Joan. 

Now, back to the heroin connections. Obviously, there’s the plan to trick Irene by staging Sherlock’s overdose. But also, heroin was what Sherlock turned to when he lost Irene the first time. And when he loses her the second time, by finding out that she’s Moriarty and thus not the Irene he fell in love with, well then he turns to Joan. Not in a completely healthy way, because he doesn’t let her help him as much as he should, but he still relies on her. And so, with this loss of Irene, instead of turning to heroin, he turns to his heroine, Joan Watson. 

A quick comment on The Woman (as I will call her). I believe that women are often stereotyped as the weak damsels in distress. I am glad that she was more than that. But I also believe that the opposite of that stereotype is the cold-heated emotionless bitch. I’ve seen some comments on Tumblr tonight about The Woman, and how her obsession (love?) for Sherlock brought her down in the end, and how that made her a weaker female.

That belief in and of itself is equally stereotypical. Sherlock and The Woman are broken, brilliant people. She is a psychopath, a cold killer, a criminal mastermind, and power-hungry. That does not negate her ability to have emotions. She was not portrayed as having some sort of developmental or personality disorder that would rid her of empathy. Why can’t a women be brilliant, insane, evil, and caring?

That’s what interested me so much about Natalie Dormer’s take on The Woman. She was wholly Irene and wholly Moriarty. She can be both, and she is both. You’re not doing women a favor by thinking that you can only be powerful if you are emotionless. The Woman was not brought down by her “womb.” She was brought down by her humanity and curiosity.

She’s not a women who lost because of those damned ~lady emotions. She was a person who lost because she is human. And she was bested by another woman, Watson, who encompasses everything caring, loving, kind, and thoughtful about humanity, while still being brilliant and kickass.

If you think The Woman is weaker for this, you’re just falling into a trap- the one that says men can be leaders/brilliant/loving/ruthless, but women have to be only one. Let’s respect both The Woman and Watson for who they are as characters, and the actors who play them, and the writers. Not every woman is the same. And some women do have humanity and some have compassion and that does not negate their ability to be smart or evil.

/rant