Let the Reader Beware
The Rantings and Ramblings of a retired student president of the Carleton College Science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance who is also studying to become a medievalist. Home for this year, but hopefully resuming my M.A. Program in York next year if all goes well.
Martinus (RL: Ross). 23. Male. Massive geek and nerd of many descriptions. Singer (but can't read music). Writer (fanfic). Chronic meta writer. Catelyn Stark/Samwell Tarly hybrid and proud of it. Callsign: Stan.
Resolute and stubborn stan of cerebral protagonists (and antagonists at times), honor-bound soldiers, flawlessly flawed 'righteous' warriors living in fear, walking identity crises (often of the morally-grey variety), children-at-heart, lost souls looking for somewhere to belong, lost souls who keep running, and those characters who take 'working inside the system' as a challenge, not a limitation.
This is not a spoiler-free blog for anything not currently airing.
I love nothing more than when characters reveal themselves while talking about someone else. And there is nothing more innately human than hypocrisy born of fear.
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I’m in a really awful mental place right now and the last thing I need is worry that people will think badly of me for things I haven’t actually said so I’m just going to get this out there.
I liked ’A Scandal in Belgravia’. I didn’t love it. It was better than ‘The Blind Banker’ but that really isn’t difficult. I didn’t think it was, as a story and an adaptation of the characters, nearly as strong as ‘A Study in Pink’ or ‘The Great Game.’
What I love most about the episode was basically everything about Irene Adler. And I would agree that it would have been a lot more interesting if this Adler had ultimately bested this Sherlock. I wish Moffat had gone with that, and I really wish he hadn’t included the ridiculous scene at the end, or at least made it a daydream. I’ll believe that Irene has successfully faked her own death again. I have no problems accepting that. So on that note I agree with the naysayers. Though I think Adler working over Mycroft, Sherlock, and the entire British government with the plane deception was one heck of crowning moment of awesome.
I do think Moffat and Gatiss are seriously over-doing it with the ‘Sherlock is smarter than everyone’ approach. I think this last episode made him a weaker character because he could do everything and be forgiven for any faults. I hope that’s something that doesn’t continue or is addressed. Antiheroes with no flaws are not any fun.
As has been made clear, I don’t think this is a case of the wretched trope ‘lesbian woman falls for *the right man*’. I think I see what Moffat (and Gatiss, let’s not forget he was involved in this too) was trying to do in terms of showing that Sherlock’s intellect has a magnetism about it that can overcome many things in his relationships with others. I also felt Sherlock was lying to himself if he believed that he hadn’t been affected by ‘sentiment’ towards Irene in the same way - that he was noticeably upset by her first ‘death’ in a way that clearly made him uncomfortable is all the proof I need.
You can and will disagree with me.
But I’m happy we have new Sherlock and thought there was a whole lot of great stuff in this episode that shouldn’t be entirely ruined by a bit of Moffat’s typically clumsy and insensitive writing.
And that’s the last I really want to say on this subject. Hoping for less controversy next episode.
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moveslikeshatner said:
I haven’t even WATCHED Sherlock yet and I agree.
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