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

[amalnahurriyeh]

It's a fun show, as long as you can ignore all the things that are absolutely enraging about it.

This is my core feeling about it. Luckily, I have gotten very good at prying apart my "holy shit that is fucked up let's talk about that" instincts from my "has massive and inescapable fannish feels about" instincts. Sigh.

The Blind Banker is so intensely awful. I think the one time I tried to rewatch it I literally only watched twenty minutes of it, because the rest was just WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, WHY WHY WHY, YOU ARE BOTH RACIST AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE. (Although none of the casefiles are ever, truly, any good as casefiles. That one just rankles by dialing up the fuckery to eleven.)

I have deep and inescapable feels about the show, which are probably apparent from how I write about it, but it's real work to try to dig out the parts that really move me from the rest of it. And now I've imprinted in a totally awkward way on it, such that I am stuck. I enjoy what I'm doing, but it's not always fun getting there.

Unfortunately, I have too much fanon in my head to answer the poll from my own opinions, rather than fannish consensus. :)

[starlady]

I mean, there are very few if any things that are not problematic. This show just doesn't push enough of my buttons to give me any reason to get over its massive humps of fail. Particularly when the RDJ movies are giving me all the Sherlock Holmes feels I could want, in a definitely less sexist and arguably less racist way.