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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 [personal profile] magnetic_pole wrote when the show was originally airing:
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 [personal profile] melannen's posts on the show too: 
And this post, Modernizing Holmes by [personal profile] 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


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%)

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Date: 2013-01-13 23:39 (UTC)
melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
Really? I see all kinds of fascinating stuff about gender and identity in Bohemia - most foregrounded, that it's about Irene choosing to move between the class/gender roles of Bad Girl and Good Wife, and what she has to do, to manage that, and the way then men's preconceptions about those two categories keep them from seeing what she's actually doing. The identities she moves between are roles that are not nearly as distinct in the modern day as they were in the late 19th/early 20th century, but it's huge in the context of where the story was originally set.