SCANDAL IN MY PANTSIA!!

[pocochina]

Who's up for a Sunday night episode review/rant? Sherlock 2x1 is some low-hanging-goddamn fruit, but fuck it, I'm cranky.

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[lutamira]

Well, I don't know if you ever got around to reading more posts about this, but there has been some fantastic conversation. I'd start with cesperanza's interesting take on the body/mind male/female aspects of the ep, or check out kate-lear's post (which has links to a bunch of other really incensed great reaction posts. Then, after you are positively lathering with feminist indignation, read this "okay, let's all think about this from outside fannish space for a minute" piece by jblum, which references SPIKE and others and also made me lather in indignation, but in different ways. (I like that last one best for pointing out that the Irene Adler everyone seems to reference and wish had been written bears no more resemblance to ACD's Irene than the BBC Irene does, and that the canon Irene was not as independent and strong and woman-motivated as we all want her to be. It makes for a fascinating commentary on fanon vs. canon, especially in light of all the other reaction posts linked here

[pocochina]

ooooh, thanks for all the links!

Oh, yeah, that second episode of S1 was completely terrible, it's just that there was at least some entertainment value here and there in scenes that weren't directly about the fail? Not that it's an excuse, of course, just that it wasn't *all* there was to the episode for me like there was here. I'll try to keep an open mind for the second episode, though!

[lutamira]

Well, definitely the difference here is that I did find lots to entertain and enjoy in the midst of the fail for this episode, whereas I really didn't like TBB very much at all. I feel like Cesperanza sufficiently summed up my watching experience - 45 minutes of glee followed by 45 minutes of WTF? But clearly I don't mind Sherlock's asshatness as much as you do, mainly because I feel like we've been told about it and warned about it so much already. We keep getting told that he has no friends, we see that he is estranged from his brother, his co-workers actually, actively hate him, and if we didn't see him acting in ways that made him deserve all that ire, I feel like he would quickly become a woobie, rather than the non-socialized being who can't be arsed to care about others' feelings the way we are told he is. (Even John's interactions with him are in some ways dependent on that jerk factor "I always hear punch me in the face when you talk, but usually it is just subtext"). And yeah, I totes agree that in SiB we see people who

[pocochina]

I don't mind Sherlock's asshatness as much as you do, mainly because I feel like we've been told about it and warned about it so much already. We keep getting told that he has no friends, we see that he is estranged from his brother, his co-workers actually, actively hate him, and if we didn't see him acting in ways that made him deserve all that ire, I feel like he would quickly become a woobie, rather than the non-socialized being who can't be arsed to care about others' feelings the way we are told he is.Ah, I see. I think my initial interpretation of Sherlock, without pretending I have the expertise to be specific or certain about this, was that he was in some way neuroatypical? So it wasn't so much a question of liking him or not one way or the other, just that I was really interested in how *his* mind worked, and in how it complicated his interactions with other people, for them and for him, you know? So for that to become the excuse for the script to indulge in pointless nastiness...it made me dislike him where I hadn't before