People In my house watch Doc Martin. And clearly, Doc Martin is supposed to have Autism, Asperger's Autism like me.
I only have two questions to ask.
The first is: Doc Martin is Autistic. What's the rest of the town's excuse?
Because everyone in the series is irritated all the time, not just Doc Martin.
The second is: where's Doc Martin's happy Autistic moments?
Autistic people are hypersensitive. To bad things. And to good things.
But we never see Doc Martin blissed out when talking about his favorite things with someone.
Because when an Autistic is obsessed privately with his favorite things, you may not see the bliss
But when an Autistic gets to talk about their favorite things with another person, you see the bliss!
Where's Doc Martin's happy Autistic moments when he gets to talk about his favorite things with someone?
Because when you're Autistic, the joy is as powerful as the pain, and we never, never see the joyful side of Doc Martin's Autism!
We never see him blissed-out like a giddy child, we never see his Autistic happy moments!
Believe me, I have had lots of those happy moments!
And those Autistic happy moments that you don't see should be reflected too, we should see him with as much quiet satisfaction as irritation, reflecting all the private happy moments that you don't see!
But then again, with everyone else in the town also irritated all the time, I don't blame him!
However, he should still be having his happy moments, for I certainly don't see him breaking down emotionally!
But then again, this show simply has the same emotional range of all the modern shows- only more quietly, since it's British!
This is television in Britain and America in the 21st Century, and the American shows are far more brutal!
Save for a precious few like Big Bang Theory!
Which brings up Sheldon Cooper!
If you want to see a well-written and brilliantly acted Autistic, look no farther! For Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang theory rings so, so true!
He certainly has his happy moments, and they ring so true to me!
Doing a Brain-different character this well is hard, Big Bang Theory should be commended!
Hell, doing a character this well is hard! Doing a character this true to life, this true to how people really are, no matter how Brain-ordinary they are, is hard!
Big Bang theory should be commended!
Sheldon Cooper is the sitcom character equivalent of Tolkien's Middle-Earth- they clearly put a lot of work into his character, down to his family background, his specific quirks, everything! Just like Tolkien worked out the languages and everything, making his Middle-Earth so true to itself, they clearly put a lot of work into the character of Sheldon Cooper! Everything about him is so true to life, the kind of family life he came from makes sense for his character, everything! That he came from a loving but quirky and slightly mad family makes so much sense to his character, that he went into theoretical physics makes sense, everything! Doing a character that well is hard!
I don't expect every character to be that well-done; that's an awful hard standard to match! But let Sheldon Cooper be an example of how to do it right; you don't have to do your character that well for it to be a good story, but this is the gold standard to shoot for!
Watching Sheldon Cooper and seeing someone like me, I feel like Sally Field at the Oscars: You like us! You really, really like us!
Watching Doc Martin, I think, well, they accept him as much as they accept anyone! (It isn't all bad from that show!) And the rest of them are not that different from him! None of them are ever happy, either! (That's just sad!)
Anyway, just my two cents, don't let it stop you from enjoying Doc Martin if you like, for it's no different from all the other modern shows with the same narrow emotional range!
None of them accurate to real life! (Where are the happy moments in House and CSI? Life isn't all gloomy!)
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson