Meme rant, Sherlock

[skull_bearer]

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What the hell Sherlock?!!!


I am beginning to hate this series with the same fire as Man With the Iron Heart, Firefly and Perdito Street Station. Wonderful books with interesting premises and fantastic ideas who fuck their own shit up to the point it's actually insulting to read (or watch). Modern day Sherlock Holmes? Awesome, great. Actors? Brilliant (although still not sure about their Watson). Plot... Oh, well yeah, incomprehensible, but hey, the first one was good.

Managing to be more culturally backward than the original series, which were written in 1880? Fuck.

For me, it was the revelation that Irene Adler was going to be a dominatrix terrified by Moriaty and in love with Holmes (despite being a lesbian, so all she clearly needs was some good cock) that made me want to start kicking kittens to death. Let's face it, Irene Adler is the most abused of the Holmes canon short of Watson up until recently. Doyle wrote a female character who was so progressive, popular culture still hasn't caught up as of 2011. She's brilliant, talented, skilled, proactive, and capable of outsmarting Sherlock Holmes. She doesn't use her 'feminine wiles' to get her way, just her brains. She has no interest in Holmes, in fact, she's in love and going to be happily married.

And her protrayals have been uniformly trying to shove her into the 'acceptable female heroine' box of the day (except for Grenada, but Grenada is awesome like that). She's almost always Holmes' love interest, in the recent movie she got fridged before the opening credits, and now she's a sex-defined and over her head (WTF? Irene Adler does not get over her head!) and in love with Holmes AGAIN.

Do you remember how Irene Adler actually used to be an opera singer? Yeah, can't we have that back? The Victorians were MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN YOU.

Now, I could be wrong. The series isn't out yet, and maybe Irene won't be over her head, or in love with Holmes, maybe she was just using Holmes to get what she wanted from Moriarty and put herself in a position where neither of them could touch her, retire from her job and live happily ever after with her new wife. That would be awesome. This series' track record? Doesn't bear that up. We're talking about the series who's version of Mary is so boring I can't even remember her name. Who wrote the episode of skeevy orientalism. Who is continuing the movie's policy of playing up the 'ghey' aspect of the books to make clear that our heros couldn't possibly be gay and HOLD THAT UP AS BEING PROGRESSIVE.

So yeah, no high hopes.

Also:

Can we please have a Holmes story without Moriaty? The guy turns up in one story out of sixty something! He's boring. I want the stupid weird cases of the Holmes books, where it was just people rattling around and bouncing off each other in weird ways without an all seeing- all controlling mastermind behind it. I know you little people would prefer to know that there's a higher power behind the bad things that happen to you, even if it is an evil one, but there's no rhyme or reason to bad things happening, and trying to tie it all back to Moriarty is not even unreal, it makes no sense and makes Moriarty look like an idiot.

(I know Grenada put him in the Red Headed League. That's fine, that's foreshadowing. Having him in every one? Boring as fuck. Fridge the bastard)

Comments

[pollums.livejournal.com]

Hahaha yeah.... agreed. Moriarty stories are often my least favorite (except for the Game of Shadows plot, which I thought worked with all the over the top campiness and plotholes). I like the Holmes mysteries because they always end with some kind of hidden emotional human drama! Not because of the intricacies of a crime overlord.

Have you ever heard the BBC Radio version of Scandal in Bohemia? There the scandal is that Irene Adler is a crossdresser and the photograph is of the king of Bohemia kissing her as a man, which I thought was pretty clever and fun :D

I mean I'm excited anyway- I'm always excited to see new Holmes adaptations! And I always love Moffat's over the top writing. but I agree with ya I agree with ya

[sarah531.livejournal.com]

For me, it was the revelation that Irene Adler was going to be a dominatrix terrified by Moriaty and in love with Holmes (despite being a lesbian, so all she clearly needs was some good cock) that made me want to start kicking kittens to death.

Say whaaaaaaaaat?

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

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