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

[starlady]

I actually copied out all the relevant parts of the three Sorting Hat songs, and I think the Slytherin characteristic Sherlock fits most is that he's cunning and ruthless. And pure-blooded. and neoliberal.

You don't think the person he cares most about is Sherlock, really?