To be fair, changing James Bond or Sherlock Holmes to women would be incredibly stupid.
No, the idea that a fictional character can’t be reimagined is what is incredibly stupid.
They wouldn’t really be the same character. Doctor Who is the same character whether a woman or not. I recommend people stop reimagining stuff, just make new characters.
All just semantics and labels. You can make a Jane Bond that is exactly the same as James Bond except for her first name and her vagina and it’s not a big deal. Or at least it shouldn’t be a big deal but some people insist on making it a big deal.
James Bond is supposed to be all one timeline, so they just recast the actor whenever he gets too old (I think they started a new timeline recently with Daniel Craig). Sherlock Holmes is a character from classic literature, and a female in his role wouldn’t make much sense given the time period he’s set in. If they did some kind of modern day version of it, it could work, but they’d have to change his name to a female name anyway so why not just be creative and make a new character in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes? The reason that isn’t as desirable is because
Realistically they won’t do anything like that to Bond or Sherlock after how big of a flop the Ghostbusters remake was.
Well they just did it with Doctor Who, so…
They made another installment in a long-running sci-fi series where the lead character is capable is changing bodies. Much different than remaking a beloved classic for no reason and spending several hundred million dollars to only make a little over 200 million. I don’t really care much about remakes, though, the originals are still around so just watch those instead. Regardless of what they do to the main characters I tend to just ignore Hollywood’s remakes these days.