3) I was told as a kid that if I got stuck in "fantasy-träsket", I'd only be reading fantasy. :P I think I have a much more varied literary diet than people stuck reading crime novels, or the collected works of August Strindberg, or whatever. But you know, fantasy wasn't real literature. (Probably because it involves making up your own rules. :/ )
Someone else likes it, it's not just my own little secret anymore!!
5) But that theory falls apart with the fact that they don't really care about Watson's canon characterisation either.
Ah, yes. Elementary, which I haven't really gotten that into as of yet. I've seen a couple of episodes on tv, and I rather like their Joan Watson. (Though I confess to being disappointed that she wasn't a vet from Aghanistan. Come on, writers! The war was started by Americans, and women soldiers are way more common now!) I don't know how prevalent shipping or anti-shipping is in the Elementary fandom, but it does seem like most prefer it as a friendship thing. :/ So in fact, pretty much the usual "runining the friendship forever" stance, which yeah, is a bit overdone at this point.
5.1) Exactly!! The new version (Sherlock) changes her from an opera singer with controversial affairs to a dominatrix? Okay, seems like a fair setting update, making her appear "scandalous" even to modern eyes. She gets inolved in a more complicated plot involving Moriarty? Okay, sure, they are playing on Moriarty as the "spider in the web", and it's actually less of a deviation than what they did with Jefferson Hope. But then they went and removed her canon love interest and had her weak spot be her attraction to Sherlock? Stop! Stahp! What are you doing?!? (I mean, to be fair, they did have her beat him in the first round, making her the first woman to beat him. But still...) It's the one epsiode of the Sherlock series that I have the most mixed feelings about, and not just about Irene. I kinda like/dislike/cringe/laugh/cry/fist-shake/hate/love it?
Someone else likes it, it's not just my own little secret anymore!!
5) But that theory falls apart with the fact that they don't really care about Watson's canon characterisation either.
Indeed.
Ah, yes. Elementary, which I haven't really gotten that into as of yet. I've seen a couple of episodes on tv, and I rather like their Joan Watson. (Though I confess to being disappointed that she wasn't a vet from Aghanistan. Come on, writers! The war was started by Americans, and women soldiers are way more common now!) I don't know how prevalent shipping or anti-shipping is in the Elementary fandom, but it does seem like most prefer it as a friendship thing. :/ So in fact, pretty much the usual "runining the friendship forever" stance, which yeah, is a bit overdone at this point.
5.1) Exactly!! The new version (Sherlock) changes her from an opera singer with controversial affairs to a dominatrix? Okay, seems like a fair setting update, making her appear "scandalous" even to modern eyes.
She gets inolved in a more complicated plot involving Moriarty? Okay, sure, they are playing on Moriarty as the "spider in the web", and it's actually less of a deviation than what they did with Jefferson Hope.
But then they went and removed her canon love interest and had her weak spot be her attraction to Sherlock? Stop! Stahp! What are you doing?!? (I mean, to be fair, they did have her beat him in the first round, making her the first woman to beat him. But still...) It's the one epsiode of the Sherlock series that I have the most mixed feelings about, and not just about Irene. I kinda like/dislike/cringe/laugh/cry/fist-shake/hate/love it?
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