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

[melannen]

BBC Sherlock isn't clever enough for Ravenclaw. :P (Possibly I would have voted differently if you hadn't linked those old posts for me to re-read, but... yeah. He's exactly the sort of thoughtless that would fit right in to Slytherin, plus I suspect if given the choice, which the Hat probably would have done, he'd've chosen the house most likely to annoy his brother.)

Mycroft probably is Ravenclaw, though. Being in Slytherin would've made it too obvious what he was up to, and he doesn't want power for its own sake (or acclaim at all.) (BBC!Mycroft is more Slytherin than his Doyle counterpart, though, Doyle!Mycroft probably didn't even get offered Slytherin.)

BBC!John is, a, an adrenaline junkie, and b, has trouble remembering his girlfriends' names, both of which are 100% Gryffindor traits, and, c, has a tendency to do morally ambiguous things without it ever shaking his conviction of moral rightness. (Doyle!John is probably Hufflepuff, though, what with the being gentlemanly, dashing, and badass.)

[starlady]

God, what even was with the supposed casefile in 2x01. It makes no bloody sense, no matter what Mycroft blathers on about.

Yes, you're right that he certainly is an adrenaline junkie.