Fair warning

[w_a_i_d]

So I have long been dreading what Moffat might do with The Woman. I have lately been told that he has made her a lesbian dominatrix. If this is true, I am going to destroy everything in the world and I thought you might want to know in advance.

(Obviously, all for representation of queer characters but not as oh! She's so out there and exotic and

Comments

[tweedisgood]

Oh dear, oh dear. Agreed: doesn't sound good, let's hope it's overwrought PR.
Although of course she could be a lesbian dominatrix just for fun, and have another profession altogether, I guess.

[w_a_i_d]

It's true, and it's even worse than I imagined. See my update if you want to see the awful truth.

[tweedisgood]

WHY do they feel the need/desire to do this? So much more possible in this so-called age of equality.

Moffat: like many talented people, you can be a real dick sometimes.

[dracutgrl]

Not far-fetched. Sorry. Please do not destroy EVERYTHING in the world. I quite like pasta and my corner of things. Except in winter - then I would happily destroy it myself.

[enname]

So if destruction of the world is imminent, does this mean I don't have to keep transcribing this document in the British Library, but can go out and play in London?

*hopeful in a sort of also repulsed manner*

Thank heavens for the ........ liberatedness of canon. Never thought I would say that.

[tweedisgood]

Yea, its odd how with all the patronising, avoidant Victorianness of it all, there is...space, somehow, for what is not spelled out to be imagined more to our way of thinking. We can enter into those women's inner worlds almost *because* ACD didn't feel the need to go there.
If that makes any sense.

[enname]

It makes complete sense. The women that are there are often just conventional caricatures, but some are contain hints of entire inner worlds behind the restraint and convention. The pleasure is in filling in the blanks and reading the subplot. Not entirely unlike reading for homosexuality, or indeed reading around other Victorian 'bling' for what could be there.

[adena_kaiba]

I've been lucky enough to hear a lot of spoilers about the episode. That's why I now know there are NO DEPTHS to which this episode doesn't sink.

And I used to love this series so much. *sniffles*

[adena_kaiba]

One of the worst thing, IMO, is the sheer hypocrisy of it all.

Their Irene is *supposed* to be "gay", as much as Sherlock was *supposed* to be married to his work, and this episode is *supposed* to be about "Sherlock AND love" instead of "Sherlock IN love".

The whole episode, as well as everything else Moffat and all the actors say contradict that. If you ask me, they pretend to keep it "ambiguous" because it sounds "cooler" than a -- and I quote! -- "mundane" love story but in fact that's exactly what they had in mind when they made it.

It sounds like bad fan fiction with a Mary Sue who's so great even the gay/asexual/somehow impossible get character falls in love almost instantly.

From people pretending to despise all that is "boring" and "mundane", I find the amount of clichés in this episode incredibly ironic! And immensely depressing to me.
Also I find the constant flow of contradictions between what they say and the actual episode quite insulting to the fans' intelligence.