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(As someone who got in too deep welcome to my playground) | Fandom blog | they/them | adult

[ingridderian]

Quick overview of all you need to know!

This is not inherently a roleplay blog or anything, BUT I have this name for a reason. As a self-proclaimed expert on all things Ingrid Derian I am open to any questions or character discussion

This show lives rent free in my brain and I'm pretty confident in my grasp on everyone's character and motivations for the most part

I predominantly use they/them but she/her is fine too, am an adult, and use many names

Note: This is a side blog

I love all the fellows equally. Wish they would've shown us John Quincy and Isosceles (the dogs) more. ALSO wish they would've shown Gigi more. And partake in a lot of off screen life speculation.

Big fan of the potential we had for a sashphensgrid throuple, huge fan of sashgrid in general, and think Adam deserves more love from the fans too

Canon can be whatever I desire

[ingridderian]

Okay I'm finally writing the post. I haven't actually seen many people here take the villain Ingrid standpoint, thankfully, but I still want to speak on it.

It's a very personal topic to me

Anyone who wanted Ingrid to be the straight up villain at any point in the series does Not get Her Character. Does not get the Struggle.

I do get the "let a girl do evil fucked up things let her do anything she wants! She can be such a fun villain!" Fun take, but there's a bigger picture here. (+ she still keeps her claws and does debatably illegal things plenty, even when not a villain)

The point is that it'd be so easy for Ingrid to just give in, "gauge eyes". It'd be the easy route, but she doesn't want to be like that.

Could she "be bad"? Easily! We've seen how she ruined someone's whole career (Slightly on accident imo, I do think the consequences were a tad more severe than she anticipated (not that that actually matters to her)) and didn't care about the fact that it ruined him. Denied him the confirmation even. As well as manipulate countless other situations to her benefit without a second thought.

But guess what? That's the point when you have ASPD. That's the point when you're a sociopath. You have to choose to be what's considered socially to be "good", you don't feel emotions the way others do. You don't feel guilt or remorse (or if you do, it's very faint or very specific (like with her broken promise to Sasha, she cares about Sasha so she cares about her promise to Sasha)), not emotionally anyways. Everything is a calculation.

For example Gigi: Ingrid observes that if she had killed their father sooner, Gigi would not be in a wheelchair. Thus; Gigi being in that wheelchair is her mistake to 'fix'. (something to be said about how 'fixing' disabled people is not really a way you should think, but it's just how Ingrid sees things. Bad situations / people she values being in distress are problems that need to be fixed.)

Also the way she got Sasha the info on her birth mother as an attempt to fix what she broke by letting Beck into their lives. Which, I have so many opinions on that dynamic there and the motivations for even sleeping with Beck in the first place. Post topic for later.

Ingrid could easily have chosen to "be bad", but she likes her people, she wants to be "good" so that she can stay around. She wants her life to stop blowing up from her impulses and lack of moral compass. She wants to help people even if she doesn't like or get most people.

She's loyal to her chosen people, clearly loves Gigi in whatever way love works for her, and fought like hell to get therapy that actually works for her.

She's a complex person, she's trying, she doesn't have to become someone she's not just to be considered good enough to not be some evil villain, she's never going to entirely lose that immoral edge, sometimes the question is murder and the answer is yes (Beck's death is an objective factual net positive to society)

Also from an out of universe standpoint it would be kind of incredibly ableist to make this incredible and explicit ASPD/Sociopath rep turn into the villain. We have Beck to showcase how people with the same diagnosis can be entirely different, can both be good and bad. Having a cluster-b disorder doesn't make you evil. Your choices are what define you.

Anyways, it's midnight and I'm tired, let's hope this rambling made a semblance of sense!

[ingridderian]

They live on my Tomodachi island btw

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[akajustmerry]

It's actually so funny in Watson how Dr Watson is like, "each of the doctors on my special special team of brilliant people remind me in one way or another of my best friend Sherlock Holmes. Yeah so there's one who's unfailingly kind despite weird family stuff, one who's obsessed with health science and desperate to escape his life, a depressed one who knows every disease ever, a hitman reinventing himself as a nurse, and my favourite one who we thank god every day choses being a neurologist over her calling to be a serial killer that hunts other serial killers who's only almost gotten everyone killed like 2 maybe 3 times max. #crowdsourcing #crowdsourcingmydeadbestie 🥰"

[kendrysaneela]

Knew Ingrid was gonna kill Beck by the end of the season! Was hoping it would be in front of Sasha and then they like made out or whatever but this is also good. Her killing him cause he fucked with Sasha

[skylarkblue]

today was terrible all round but i got to come home and watch an episode of television in which my beautiful princess with a disorder, dr ingrid derian, ran the holmes clinic like it was the fucking army, took control of every room she was in, called dr sasha lubbock her friend, and then committed crimes <3 nobody is out here doing it like her

[kateeorg]

A Eulogy for Watson (CBS)

One of my weekly watches for the past year and a half has been Watson, an odd take on the Sherlock Holmes universe which sets it in modern day with an African-American Watson, post-Reichenbach Falls, heading up a medical clinic in Pittsburgh which focuses on genetics.

It had its last episode last night after an unceremonious cancellation, meaning the writers were not prepared to have to wrap up all the storylines.

That said, it wasn't the worst as far as unexpected endings go. But still, I feel I must say goodbye more properly:

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Dear Watson,

You were a bit of an odd duck. A Sherlock Holmes-related show without a Sherlock. You questioned, who is John Watson without Sherlock? A Watson divorced from Mary Morstan? You took elements of Holmes' origin, based on a genius medical doctor on the cutting edge of forensic science in the 1800s, and carried it over to Watson in the modern day, making him the genius medical doctor on the cutting-edge of genetics.

Your cases were interesting and often unique, though sometimes pushed along by convenience (I feel like I should have made a counter of how many times a patient conveniently collapsed in UHOP).

You didn't get a lot of love, from either casual TV viewers or Sherlock Holmes aficionados. You were compared unfavorably to the likes of House and Elementary, neither of which I have seen a lot of. Perhaps if I had, I would feel differently. But while you weren't the most amazing, I think you stood on your own well enough, made some bold swings, cultivated a significant fan base who will miss you dearly.

Your takes on classic Holmes characters like James Moriarty, Shinwell Johnson, Mary Morstan, Lestrade, Irene Adler, and even Sherlock were a little quirky, and may have turned a lot of potential viewers off in the case of the first one, but I found it interesting. In a world where so many other takes on Sherlock exist, even while this show was airing, you took some risks in your depictions to stand out. Shinwell, who is not a big character in the lore, became one of the most lovable parts of the show, even though his thick accent required me to turn on the captions every single time.

But I think I most enjoyed the original characters you added:

Stephens and Adam(s) Croft, the identical twins, one of whom believes in traditional medicine, the other in alternative medicine. We saw them come together after starting off the series adrift, and saw each of them have their own story arcs - one to open himself up to love and life and hope in the future, the other to grapple with an unexpected life change that at first seemed daunting but later showed him really coming through. While Stephens had an unresolved blow in the finale, I still feel like this series left him better than he started.

Sasha Lubbock, the sweet Asian-adoptee Texan who always tried to see the best in people and things. Unfortunately, your storyline was one of the ones left unsettled by the finale, and left you in a pretty low spot, but my hope, based on what I know of you and those in your corner, is that you would have rallied and become all the better for your crisis of faith in humanity. (And married Stephens.)

And Ingrid Derian, the sociopathic neurologist who protects her own with a fierce loyalty. Your storylines were the craziest, your loyalties and actions the hardest to read. You struggled so hard to be a better person, and I have no idea where your story was meant to end. But you certainly made things interesting, and your relationships with all the characters were so well-fleshed out.

So, Watson, while your overarching story and little twists were a mess (as in, you spent multiple episodes this season ignoring an ongoing storyline that should have had a stronger impact on the characters, only to suddenly make it relevant again as if it always had been, like, wtf?), you still managed to create an interesting mesh of medical and mystery drama with well-drawn characters I was invested in.

I will miss you, and I am sorry to see you shuffled off to pasture like this, especially with a number of personal plot threads left dangling. If another network picks you up, I will be happy to follow. But for now, I am left mourning what could have been, but hopeful it would have all worked out for each character.

[akajustmerry]

see I know not enough ppl were watching the CBS Watson show because the finale quite literally featured a reveal that Sherlock Holmes has been alive this whole time BUT imprisoned by none other than Sebastian Moran (played by Suzie Izzard) and Holmes was being forced to help Moran take over Moriarty's empire...and see if enough of youse had been watching youse would have had the CONSIDERATION, nay, the DECENCY to be like, "wait a second, this concept of Sebastian Moran fucking up Sherlock Holmes' life post-reichenbach to take over Moriarty's empire is a concept Merry has explored in multiple Sherlock Holmes fanfictions they wrote. I bet they're having a great time with this finale" and ykw I was indeed..... [thousand yard stare]...it was fun while it lasted... [clenches teeth] At least Watson and the beautiful bisexual Mary kiss kissed and fell back in love and ended up together 4ever (definitely happened, definitively so, not a dream sequence, no sir)...it's fine. It's so fine that I had a modern Sherlock Holmes show with a mostly Black cast/cast of colour that had really fun fresh perspectives on the mythos and it got cancelled right as it introduced one of my absolute favourite headcanons as a key plot point. We even had cool older lesbian detective lestrade, but she didn't even get to meet Sherlock's gay ass.... But whatever !!!! It's so fine. I'm fine and normal about it

[uranium-isotope]

Watson (CBS) Almost finished watching, I like it

[ingridderian]

JUST FINISHED THE FINAL EPISODE GET READY IM BACK oh my g

[ingridderian]

[OK so I'm still one behind on release thanks to Geolocation so I'm not looking in tags or participating in convo yet eventhough I do know pretty much everything already, but you do not BEGIN to UNDERSTAND how feral this makes me. Ok?

I could. Write a whole thing on it but I can't go that deep on main yet. I need to finish.

[ingridderian]

Adam I will never get tired of the ways you choose to sit

[ingridderian]

[ingridderian]

Adam I will never get tired of the ways you choose to sit

[ingridderian]

[Screenshot redraw but make it furries, I actually have furry designs for everyone but if you'll see them depends on my mood

This screenshot is just very fun to me, I may be behind on release but I'm having fun

[ingridderian]

[Quick self indulgent Moodboard because I was bored in the waiting room, may make more

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[ingridderian]

[When s2 finishes airing over here I will go full in on Content again. My country airing dates are a decent amount behind on release dates, so I'm staying out of the tags so I don't drive myself crazy waiting.

In the meantime! Out of context screenshots and other Things]