Comments | gardnerhill: It's official: Elementary has spoiled me for Sherlock BBC's casual racism.

gardnerhill

It's official: Elementary has spoiled me for Sherlock BBC's casual racism.

Dec 27, 2013 13:21

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Sherlock BBC's Christmas mini-sode, and for the ACD story “The Empty House.”

I saw the mini-sode teaser for Sherlock BBC's season 3.

In a word? Ugh.

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racism, only whites can save the world, elementary, bbc_sherlock, white privilege, sexism, pissy fangirl, pissy feminist, sherlock holmes

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frodosweetstuff December 28 2013, 10:28:39 UTC

I'm afraid I disagree with quite a lot of what you are saying ( ... )

gardnerhill December 30 2013, 04:57:17 UTC

...I spent 3 hours writing my response to your comment - and Livejournal swallowed it and it's lost.

I won't bother again. I won't change your mind.

I'll only wish someone besides Steven Moffat, with his racist and misogynistic storytelling track record, had his hands on BBC Sherlock.

And I assert that a Sherlock Holmes that has a Victorian attitude about travel in other countries (funny childlike brown foreigners, not quite as smart as white people), a Victorian attitude about sexuality (women and gay people are to be mocked for it), and a Victorian attitude about casting (white men first, white women only if they serve Sherlock in some way, everybody else can be a stereotype) - is not a modern Holmes but a Victorian Holmes in modern dress.

only_po January 19 2014, 23:09:44 UTC

The moment I saw the candles being lit, and then the hooded monks, I groaned. Then when Lestrade kept pointing out that it's not exactly hard to spot a blonde, Caucasian woman in a monastery of bald Tibetan monks . . . it's sad when an episode points out that a character is being foolish when we are supposed to be believing that character. For that matter, why does Sherlock have to go globe-trotting in the first place? (Let alone globe-trot to the same places in the Canon.) Unless it's an integral part of tracking down Moriarty's snipers and taking them out so that it is safe for him to be undead, it's part of Canon that didn't need to be adapted. I get the whole "going home" element they were going for but that could have been accomplished through other, more believable ways.

I have no problem with adaptations trying to stick to Canon material, but I don't think Sherlock's writers have necessarily done the best job of choosing Canonical elements that work best in this world. (John's service in Afghanistan and Sherlock's ( ... )

gardnerhill January 20 2014, 17:13:12 UTC

Couldn't have said it better myself.