Before the last Sherlock is aired
Jan. 15th, 2012 01:33 pmHere's a good read, via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selenak :
"A Sandal in Fandom: Steven Moffat, Irene Adler and the Fannish Gaze "
Many very good points. Among them, here are a few picks:
About Sherlock:
"If there's an emphasized spine running through the whole show, it's what Lestrade says in the very first episode: Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and one day he may even be a good one. As he stands, the story makes clear, he's both a fascinating, charismatic genius and a thoroughly rotten human being. More than that, the text points out that there's development at work; John Watson is there to humanize him. If there's a first big turning point for the character, it's probably the end of The Great Game, which is the first time Sherlock shows any sort of genuine concern for the welfare of another person. Before then... check out how appalled Watson is earlier in that episode, when Sherlock's reaction to Moriarty killing an innocent is "Well technically I won". Sherlock is explicitly painted as a man who's a long way from decent.
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selenak :"A Sandal in Fandom: Steven Moffat, Irene Adler and the Fannish Gaze "
Many very good points. Among them, here are a few picks:
About Sherlock:
"If there's an emphasized spine running through the whole show, it's what Lestrade says in the very first episode: Sherlock Holmes is a great man, and one day he may even be a good one. As he stands, the story makes clear, he's both a fascinating, charismatic genius and a thoroughly rotten human being. More than that, the text points out that there's development at work; John Watson is there to humanize him. If there's a first big turning point for the character, it's probably the end of The Great Game, which is the first time Sherlock shows any sort of genuine concern for the welfare of another person. Before then... check out how appalled Watson is earlier in that episode, when Sherlock's reaction to Moriarty killing an innocent is "Well technically I won". Sherlock is explicitly painted as a man who's a long way from decent.
( Read more... )