SPOILERS

[piplover]

Sherlock spoilers ahead. Read at own risk.  I mean it. 


So.  Scandal in Belgravia. Went just about as bad I as I had feared.  I missed the first part, so I will watch it again to catch up, but what I did see was pretty much what I had been dreading. 

God forbid, after all, that Irene Adler be anything but a sex interest for Sherlock Holmes.  I mean, you can't have a woman who is smart not be sexy, right?  Or try to get into the pants of the person she's trying to work.  Or have your main character not reciprocate, even though the episode basically confirmed he's asexual.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be watching this episode too much.  I'll probably like parts of it, once I can see it in it's entirety, but really?  You can't just leave well enough alone? You have to make one of the few woman who was brilliant despite living in an age where her sex determined her options, into a sex object? 

It really makes me sick.  Honestly, I know I shouldn't expect better.  But I still thought they would avoid the trope. I guess I shouldn't have trusted them so much. 

Comments

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You should read the story that marysutherland just put up, I think.

Poor Irene, she's never going to be adapted very well. (I'd love to see her SING for once, myself.)