Comments | antennapedia: Great meta on "Scandal" and fannish reactions.

antennapedia

Great meta on "Scandal" and fannish reactions.

Jan 15, 2012 17:18

Stop everything & read this essay by jblum on fandom's odd reactions to Moffat and his adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia". It offers another reading of that final scene that I found fascinating and persuasive ( Read more... )

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misswitch January 16 2012, 02:30:43 UTC

Clearly I'm not doing something right because I really enjoyed A Scandal in Belgravia. It was the Hound of Baskerville that I disliked intensely.

Anyway, my biggest problem with "Scandal" was the fact that apparently Watson didn't notice that Holmes was gone when he (Holmes) went to rescue Irene.

wickedfox January 16 2012, 04:22:41 UTC

Hey, wait a sec... good point! Obviously I need to pay more attention, stop browsing online while watching the show.

antennapedia January 16 2012, 04:34:18 UTC

The Hound was purer pastiche, if that makes any sense. The elements of the original are all there sort of mixed up & modernized. The original is kind of a sucky mystery but a good horror story. Gatiss's adaptation is all about the horror aspects. I appreciate it better after my re-read yesterday.

"Scandal" was more *fun*, though. Not a horror story.

wickedfox January 16 2012, 04:21:21 UTC

That was a good essay. Swayed me from my fannish instinct post that episode.

stexgirl2000 January 16 2012, 17:18:46 UTC

I haven't watched Sherlock yet, but I really enjoyed the jblum's essay in general: it was, as you pointed out, spot on about fandom going for the black & white interpretations that undoes the presentation of complex characters. Oh, how that plays out over and over and over again.

the_emu January 25 2012, 14:05:05 UTC

Oh, great essay. I liked the episode, saw her as an excellent, strong character, liked her as Sherlock's match, and now I like her even more, with jblum's comparison to the literary character ( ... )