FFS, Elementary!
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neadodsAt least the Ritchie movies showed Irene as smart and proactive before Moriarty stuck her in the fridge. Elementary gives her NOTHING - no screen time, no personality, NOTHING except a gruesome death for the specific purpose of warning Sherlemantary off a case and spinning him into drug addiction.
And then there's the Joan issue. Not that John recast as a woman of color is a problem, but the constant demeaning sexism she's putting up with? So far Sherlementary's "father" and a Baker Street Irregular have implied she's a whore; [spoiler] asked if Sherlmentary was banging her, Sherlementary himself tried to hire her as assistant *and housekeeper* -- that there, THAT'S a big damned problem.
It's everything I feared, listening to the producer going on and on abouthis Sherlementary's woman issues. He didn't cast Joan to be an advance; he cast someone he could have the hero and just about everyone associated with him treat as second-class snatch and everyone's supposed to be so pleased on the rare occasions when he can be arsed to be halfway nice to her. I suppose someone has to do the job, now that Joan has decided that putting up with that bullshit is so fascinating that she'll do it for free. I've had a problem all along with people acting against their own self interest in this show, and you can't get much more self-destructive than to lie to your client, throw away a second career, and suck up that shitty attitude of Sherlementary's for free. I'm supposed to be rooting for Joan, not wanting to smack some sense into her.
What the fuck is next, Joan singing "he hit me and it felt like a kiss"?
Hell of a rewrite for literature's most famous friendship.
And then there's the Joan issue. Not that John recast as a woman of color is a problem, but the constant demeaning sexism she's putting up with? So far Sherlementary's "father" and a Baker Street Irregular have implied she's a whore; [spoiler] asked if Sherlmentary was banging her, Sherlementary himself tried to hire her as assistant *and housekeeper* -- that there, THAT'S a big damned problem.
It's everything I feared, listening to the producer going on and on about
What the fuck is next, Joan singing "he hit me and it felt like a kiss"?
Hell of a rewrite for literature's most famous friendship.
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Date: 2013-01-12 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-01-12 11:45 pm (UTC)i wanted to say that i have a STRONG SUSPICION that the ritchie-version of irene adler isn't really dead (as long as rachel mcadams doesn't ask for too much money next time, obvs). the first time i watched the movie, i was outraged. the second time i watched, i was like, "holy crap, she's not dead at all!" not only do we never see her body, we never see her even sip from the poisoned cup. if we can watch holmes plunge into the falls and come back out alive to disguise himself as a chair, i think we can expect ritchie has something planned for irene adler (former provisions noted, of course).
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Date: 2013-01-13 12:08 am (UTC)She's an actress. Playing dead long enough to fool Moriarty? Not necessarily a problem.
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Date: 2013-01-13 06:04 am (UTC)Unless someday someone EXPECTS us to assume that....