BBC Sherlock, and a question

[starlady]

My sister finished showing me Sherlock last night. It's a fun show, as long as you can ignore all the things that are absolutely enraging about it. (On that note, listening to my sister yelling at the TV when the commentary video was playing was priceless. She hates what the show did to Irene Adler too.) I still can't do any better than two posts that magnetic_pole wrote when the show was originally airing:

• Neoliberal Holmes, or Everything I Need to Know About Modern Life I Learned From Sherlock
• A Scandal in the Blogosphere

I don't have a link handy about everything that was wrong with the second episode, but let me not omit to mention how Orientalist and racist it was. And if anyone can explain the nonsense with the planes and the dead bodies in 2x01 to me, that would be cool, because it makes no fucking sense. General protip: if you are more racist or sexist than Arthur Conan Doyle, you've got real problems.

Well, actually, I was thinking of melannen's posts on the show too: 

• Sherlock
• I'm bored, Sherlock, and your casefiles are boring

And this post, Modernizing Holmes by naraht, has some discussion that is still interesting.

We also got into a fairly heated argument about the following question.

Poll #12525 Sorting Sherlock and John

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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What Hogwarts House is Sherlock?

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Ravenclaw
25 (58.1%)

Slytherin
18 (41.9%)

What Hogwarts House is John?

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Gryffindor
19 (44.2%)

Hufflepuff
24 (55.8%)

Comments

[sapphoatsunset]

Sherlock seems to me very concerned about Sherlock. He helps because he wants the notoriety. He likes being the 'best' and the 'only' xxxx and takes on cases that no one else would because when he solves the puzzle, he is just that much better than everyone else. He's an academic, but only because it's a means to an end, and showing one up on Mycroft makes him gleeful. He likes that the police force is crippled without him and that he always has the answer first because he can preen and feel superior. And, he doesn't truly explain things in terms people can follow--sure he explains things, but does anyone connect it all completely? I think that's on purpose. Manipulate the competition and ensure they can't beat you. He's underhanded and cunning. Def Slytherin.

For John: I think he does the right thing but because he had to be pushed into excitement and wouldn't do it without Sherlock, I think he's a Hufflepuff.

[starlady]

My sister and I were specifically arguing about John and the risk-taking--like, obviously Mycroft is right when he tells John that he misses the war, welcome back to it? And obviously John is a brave BAMF. But let's not forget that he went to the war as a doctor (classic support capacity/profession), and like you say, he has to be pushed into it by Sherlock (though he takes to it like a duck to water once he does). So yes, very much a Hufflepuff along Cedric Diggory lines.

And yes, I agree with everything you say about Sherlock too. I think it's very telling that I don't actually like or sympathize with him in this rendition very much, whereas normally my "I WAY OVERIDENTIFY WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES" feels are always at 11.

[sapphoatsunset]

Yay agreement! I actually like this Sherlock though because he seemed more flawed to me than previous one's and I can appreciate that he's a bit human. Yes, he's a super genius, but he's also human in his motivations. It makes for an interesting character study ^__^

And, truthfully, if I was a good copper case story, I read The Yard again. :)

[starlady]

I find BBC!Sherlock much less relatable because sociopath who ostentatiously hasn't learned to give a shit about other people. Whereas I find most other Holmeses to be very relatable, and very human.