tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post5435657184128020727..comments2023-08-24T05:25:10.454-07:00Comments on this, that and everything else: Say goodnight, Irene.Ms. Edna (squared)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09889351629770150723noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-17308243304724693192012-05-12T04:35:58.518-07:002012-05-12T04:35:58.518-07:00Imagine a modern version of Casablanca with Rick t...Imagine a modern version of Casablanca with Rick texting his faithful Dooley Wilson, “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Or Rick writing to Ilsa, “Here’s looking at you, kid.” It is as absurd as some of those ludicrous people I see texting in the park daily. Being online is being out of touch, and for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would want to be on Facebook. It’s bad enough to be pursued by children and wives for acting like a normal man acts without posting it for all to see.<br />Connecting emotionally is what it’s all about—at least with friends or with women—and looking at smart phones will not cut it. Get unconnected and start living.un sherlockednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-17686198151401505342012-05-11T21:43:59.836-07:002012-05-11T21:43:59.836-07:00Excellent review and totally agree with you about ...Excellent review and totally agree with you about the changes done to the character of Irene Adler.<br /><br />I have voiced similar thoughts in my <b> <a href="http://buddy2blogger.blogspot.com/2012/05/review-scandal-in-belgravia-sherlock.html" rel="nofollow">review</a> </b> as well.<br /><br />Cheers!Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16498276962097853996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-3951668391207194332012-05-08T09:56:38.027-07:002012-05-08T09:56:38.027-07:00SORRY IRENE!
But from Tottenham to Taipei, we fol...SORRY IRENE!<br /><br />But from Tottenham to Taipei, we follow HIS every public move like a pride of leopards. And why not? Infectiously restless, Cumberbatch is the greatest Sherlock Holmes of all time, a feat that’s anything but elementary.Ms Edna's gaggle of fansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-72099434609970480032012-05-08T04:49:00.204-07:002012-05-08T04:49:00.204-07:00But most of all, I missed the moment at the end (i...But most of all, I missed the moment at the end (in the original version) when Holmes pretends to sympathize with the arrogant Bohemian King (the client who feared blackmail in the original story) who expresses regret that Adler, his former lover, was not marriageable:<br /> "Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?”<br />“From what I have seen of the lady, she seems, indeed, to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said Holmes coldly.Rochernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-71326483378605242242012-05-08T04:46:45.361-07:002012-05-08T04:46:45.361-07:00Thank you I finally puzzled-out the reason the hik...Thank you I finally puzzled-out the reason the hiker was distracted. He must have been watching Irene Adler on his IPhone!found my answernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-12336318126613120702012-05-08T04:26:11.797-07:002012-05-08T04:26:11.797-07:00I saw season 2 when it first aired in England, and...I saw season 2 when it first aired in England, and I was irritated by this episode. Seeing it months later has not changed my perception. I have to agree with Mona. Instead of enjoying British wit and repartee (and I adore Cumberbatch) well, Sunday night I just found it petty and irritating.a britnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-56385177533171417362012-05-08T04:07:39.726-07:002012-05-08T04:07:39.726-07:00I’m not looking for role models or moral lessons.I’m not looking for role models or moral lessons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-25112320284141580922012-05-08T04:03:18.100-07:002012-05-08T04:03:18.100-07:00Conan Doyle’s work can justly be accused of being ...Conan Doyle’s work can justly be accused of being a boys’ club, and there are plenty of young men in nice suits and posh accents in Sherlock. Indeed the show seems worryingly convinced that everything will be OK so long as such men are in charge. But it’s harder to stomach the other kind of boys’ club which peeps out of this show – the resentful postfeminist backlash which yearns to humiliate women and put them “back in their place”. If this is the Revenge of the Nerds I’ve heard so much about, it’s a lousy cause and it’s going to find a lot more angry women. And Sherlock needs to sort itself out in a hurry.yep a womannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-54313088768680017702012-05-07T21:37:40.345-07:002012-05-07T21:37:40.345-07:00Connecting emotionally is what it’s all about—at l...Connecting emotionally is what it’s all about—at least with friends or with partners—and looking at smart phones will not cut it. <br />Get unconnected and start living!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-68915190513805268372012-05-07T21:30:02.789-07:002012-05-07T21:30:02.789-07:00Frankly my dear Mona, I don't give a fig. Let&...Frankly my dear Mona, I don't give a fig. Let's talk elections!Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-77455022617030764562012-05-07T21:15:31.861-07:002012-05-07T21:15:31.861-07:00I love this. The depiction of Irene Adler is my ma...I love this. The depiction of Irene Adler is my main problem with Guy Ritchie’s & the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes and the reason I don’t like them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-65558101234604455222012-05-07T20:58:14.859-07:002012-05-07T20:58:14.859-07:00And yet there was but one man for her, and that ma...And yet there was but one man for her, and that man was Sherlock Holmes, of dubious and questionable memory.asterixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03962658112600654006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-84678982871786518722012-05-07T20:48:45.009-07:002012-05-07T20:48:45.009-07:00O dear, more typical modern pornvilization of La B...O dear, more typical modern pornvilization of La Belle Irene!Alistairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-22709766470724069472012-05-07T20:32:57.587-07:002012-05-07T20:32:57.587-07:00"Brainy is the new sexy." Purred the min..."Brainy is the new sexy." Purred the minxy Irene Adler. <br /><br />Where the dickens did she leave hers?Syl v Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03484770779311958287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-53140803566585429332012-05-07T20:24:27.941-07:002012-05-07T20:24:27.941-07:00You read my avatar?You read my avatar?Ms. Edna (squared)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09889351629770150723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-86405671501448174102012-05-07T20:21:31.850-07:002012-05-07T20:21:31.850-07:00I took the business (in the BBC episode) with the ...I took the business (in the BBC episode) with the blog counter, and the very simple flirty texts, to mean that they are communicating at some more complicated level and that all of this is code either pre-arranged or embedded. Their relationship is not even a bit about sex – it is about mind. <br />Ms. Edna?Anjahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10174619497644825577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-61471965308035439452012-05-07T20:19:00.240-07:002012-05-07T20:19:00.240-07:00Touche! A woman who speaks her mind. Thank you, M...Touche! A woman who speaks her mind. Thank you, Madam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-28734316777754101772012-05-07T20:16:39.830-07:002012-05-07T20:16:39.830-07:00Oh, Karen, I adore you. I like your reading better...Oh, Karen, I adore you. I like your reading better, too, and I will treasure it in my heart so I can like this episode.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02764602166973915977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-1950989186871381852012-05-07T20:10:40.388-07:002012-05-07T20:10:40.388-07:00Dear Mona,
I have not seen the movie but I saw the...Dear Mona,<br />I have not seen the movie but I saw the BBC production and I didn’t read the episode that way; I read the ending, and the scene where he is going through their texts, as meaning that, from an early stage, she and Holmes have been in collusion to pwn Mycroft and Moriarty and her other enemies like the CIA. Retrospectively, the entire sequence where she humiliates him in front of his brother, and he breaks her, then becomes a major bluff. Setting up a way of convincing everyone that this time she really is dead.<br />The relationship is based on the fact that they are two of the smartest people on the planet and like each other enough at a purely intellectual level to take on the challenge of playing against the other two and winning as a team. The fact that she is gay and he is – presumably – asexual is something that enables them to outwit even the effete Mycroft who still thinks in conventional terms about sexual motivation.<br />Even if Moffat confirms your reading, and it turns out that he is being the same old sexist shit that he always is, I prefer mine. Because it is not an insult to my intelligence.Karen (DB)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-26711537060218872622012-05-07T19:59:08.492-07:002012-05-07T19:59:08.492-07:00"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. ..."To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex....”<br />Moffat was determined NOT to give her that by the end of the episode. And thus, he managed to wipe out a rather spectacular character in ten minutes.frenchtoasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04535674362743497554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-76267494413409687922012-05-07T19:49:16.479-07:002012-05-07T19:49:16.479-07:00It’s fun when a story written over 120 years ago h...It’s fun when a story written over 120 years ago has better gender politics than its modern reimagining. With BBC’s Sherlock, this is exactly what happened. The most recent episode, A Scandal in Belgravia puts a modern spin on the Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia, and manages to engage in a horrifying mess of feminism-fail by the end.<br />I would gladly keep the sparkling, sexy, sharp Irene Adler of most of the episode, and cut off the end entirely. And if the BBC need to fill up the full 90 minutes, why not extend the scene where she is beating Sherlock Holmes with a cane? And perhaps, let’s see him beg for mercy. Twice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-78772702629593008272012-05-07T19:32:23.125-07:002012-05-07T19:32:23.125-07:00Yes, it is tiresome that today every fictional cha...Yes, it is tiresome that today every fictional character needs to have a sex drive and that a woman and man can never have a professional relationship or friendship.<br />Or, perhaps, this is my view, because I enjoy friendships regardless of gender and sexual orientation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486208150044133942.post-42570183188050923832012-05-07T19:20:43.344-07:002012-05-07T19:20:43.344-07:00Food for thought. Thanks.Food for thought. Thanks.Ms. Edna (squared)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09889351629770150723noreply@blogger.com