[ SECRET POST #4892 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4892 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Character adaptations that you hate

[(Anonymous)]

If she had won in the end, it would have been okay at least, even if not great. But she lost, and then he had to go save her, and it made everything all the stupider and grosser. Moffat's Sherlock had to be the indomitable ubermensch, and that made everything they did with Irene a nonstarter; she was never going to go toe to toe with him. She was always going to fail. She was written to fail.

The other issue, of course, was an issue of Moffat fucking up what he was insinuating in his writing. If-- if-- he had actually gone through with making Irene and John mirrors of each other (a gay woman with an exception; a straight man with an exception) then it might not have tasted as shitty for him to have leaned into the horrible lesbophobic trope of there always being at least one man that she'll go for. The framework was there. But then Moffat 100% doubled down on his het bullshit and denied any homosexual intent between Sherlock and John, which then also silently doubled down on having actually thrown a gay woman under the shitty trope bus.

LONG STORY SHORT I 100% agree with you and it breaks my heart because it could have been so much better.

Re: Character adaptations that you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Strongly seconding all of this. They had so many good ingredients there, but the way they used them was just insultingly horrible. I loved Irene, in all her vicious, brilliant, unapologetic, indomitable glory...until the writers threw her under the bus.