Sherlock Holmes...
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bibliodragon...in an Adventure with Steven Moffatts's Id.
Also known as adaptations just can't do Irene Adler right! The whole point is she's a woman Sherlock comes across incidentally as the focus in a case, and she gets one over him in managing to escape. Which tends to get translated as epic romance. She didn't need any help from Moriarty and she certainly didn't get beaten at the very end because of lurve. And she never needed saving either!
The episode was fun with great lines and fun moments, and if I wasn't an original book fan I'd probably just be going 'hmm' over Moffatt's woman issues showing up but overall enjoying it. Instead book purist raeg! I know, I know, it's a modern adaptation, why am I not raeging over that if I'm a purist? Because while the setting and case details have been changed, the characterization has done a good job at sticking to the spirit of the originals. Except for Irene. And for Moriarty, but then I didn't care for him in the books and the one story he showed up in either. Giant ham Moriarty is actually hilarious in his badness. The handling of Irene just hits too many icky sexism issues for me.
Though the whole dominatrix thing to be as scandalous in modern day as an American in Victorian times was was hilarious. If it was deliberate, and not just an excuse to be all sexy edgy. Oh Steven.
Also known as adaptations just can't do Irene Adler right! The whole point is she's a woman Sherlock comes across incidentally as the focus in a case, and she gets one over him in managing to escape. Which tends to get translated as epic romance. She didn't need any help from Moriarty and she certainly didn't get beaten at the very end because of lurve. And she never needed saving either!
The episode was fun with great lines and fun moments, and if I wasn't an original book fan I'd probably just be going 'hmm' over Moffatt's woman issues showing up but overall enjoying it. Instead book purist raeg! I know, I know, it's a modern adaptation, why am I not raeging over that if I'm a purist? Because while the setting and case details have been changed, the characterization has done a good job at sticking to the spirit of the originals. Except for Irene. And for Moriarty, but then I didn't care for him in the books and the one story he showed up in either. Giant ham Moriarty is actually hilarious in his badness. The handling of Irene just hits too many icky sexism issues for me.
Though the whole dominatrix thing to be as scandalous in modern day as an American in Victorian times was was hilarious. If it was deliberate, and not just an excuse to be all sexy edgy. Oh Steven.
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-04 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 03:39 pm (UTC)A friend of mine posted a link to this fix-it-fic which I thought was quite good - despite not having seen the episode.
http://marysutherland.livejournal.com/49914.html
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Date: 2012-01-06 04:15 pm (UTC)Thank God for fix it fanfic!