zkydz wrote:
How about the uber clean/sparse apartment and the clipped/clinical way of speaking?
I realize I am a bit different in my speaking mainly because of my upbringing. But I'm a motor mouth with no filter and a really bad edit button.
I found it interesting that she would parse a statement made by Watson about Holmes as a 'binary statement of if, then statements.' (Paraphrased) While I do think like that, I don't verbalize it to that degree. And the asking her to say the sky was a different color is something I did not understand.
For me, it would be a compliance issue to fit in. If you want me to say it's purple, I will say so. I have a compulsion to answer questions and comply. It's just been easier that way. I won't like it, but I will not buck it. If not being asked to state something so obviously wrong though, I am compulsively honest. And that's the type of thing that's been bugging the crap outta me. That need to do things against my nature just to fit in. But, that's me and I was wondering if it applied to others.
I do realize that it is a character. I realize there is a fair amount of storytelling that must propel the story that may require accentuating things for the audience as well.
No matter what I think though about those minute details, I do like it seems to be done with thought and respect.
And, I do think her statement about not knowing what type of person Sherlock was, was quite telling by the writers.
I think so, mostly. I asked my wife how accurate it was, and she said, pretty close. I do get a bit of the robotic voice and difficulty with the eye contact, especially if I'm stressed (pretty much all Asperger tendencies of mine magnify under stress). I tend to speak in a very formal way, so the whole binary thing isn't that far off. I just figured that was partly due to her writing code for a living. I tend to sound like I'm lecturing a class of college students, because my parents were both professors, and Dad probably had Asperger's.
The extremely neat, fashionable apartment? Hell, no! It's one of my worst executive function issues. I joke to people that I decorate my home in Early Crime Scene, because it looks like someone ransacked it. However, I notice that pretty much everybody in the show seems to have a $1 million apartment in a fashionable neighborhood and an endless clothing budget, no matter what their income is. I WANT Joan Watson's clothes. And figure.
I did think they exaggerated the "can't tell a lie" thing. I can lie, just not at all convincingly. I'd have to have several minutes to think of a lie that might be believed by someone older than 6. Fiona does say she can lie, but that she chooses not to.
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12 Feb 2016, 12:25 am
