This entry is magnificent, and these comments are magnificent and just about everything I'd want to say has already been said here (or I've said it in my pages and pages of emails to eccentric_hat
I just have to add my voice to the comments about Irene/Sherlock. I realize I'm preaching to the choir and we all seem to agree that the Warehouse scene was THE BEST SCENE but I am really shocked about the criticism I've read in reviews that Irene is gay so she can't be into Sherlock. I mean, seriously, did they not hear anything other than the "I'm gay" line in THE BEST SCENE? Yes, a character says she's gay, while driving home a point about just how messy and complicated emotions and attractions are and then people are surprised that she has messy and complicated feelings?
Anyway, I guess I just want to write a love letter to the writers thanking them for taking the show there because really, right now, what they're doing with John and Sherlock, it is everything I've ever wanted from this fandom and so much more interesting and nuanced than anything I'd ever expect from television.
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I just have to add my voice to the comments about Irene/Sherlock. I realize I'm preaching to the choir and we all seem to agree that the Warehouse scene was THE BEST SCENE but I am really shocked about the criticism I've read in reviews that Irene is gay so she can't be into Sherlock. I mean, seriously, did they not hear anything other than the "I'm gay" line in THE BEST SCENE? Yes, a character says she's gay, while driving home a point about just how messy and complicated emotions and attractions are and then people are surprised that she has messy and complicated feelings?
Anyway, I guess I just want to write a love letter to the writers thanking them for taking the show there because really, right now, what they're doing with John and Sherlock, it is everything I've ever wanted from this fandom and so much more interesting and nuanced than anything I'd ever expect from television.
And, in closing, here's Steven Moffat, balking at the idea that Adler can be summarized as a love interest and insisting that the show is more complicated than that. The pertinent part starts at 1:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCxfpI-lt8&list=FLi4_y9f5WBNGM0_Gt4CTNEw&feature=mh_lolz
"Well, IS it a love interest? It's two magnificent predators circling each other in a dark and terrible fascination."