Meta rec: Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Know About Modern Life I Learned from Sherlock by magnetic_pole I watch BBC’s Sherlock, but have been both unable to truly enjoy it and growing increasingly uncomfortable with fandom’s over-the-top reaction to it. This post shines an unforgiving light on every issue with the show I had, plus a few I hadn’t before reading it. Beyond its brilliant breakdown of Sherlock, there’s something to the core of the message that can be applied to fandom in general. At any rate, brilliant and thought-provoking.
From reading that, it looks like Sherlock has all the issues that Moffat has in general but amped up even more because Sherlock isn't a "kid's show". I was already at ease with my disinterest in his new show but it's always... I don't know... validating?... to have someone who appears to have had no feelings about his writing one way or the other prior to watching something of his to notice the same issues that I do.
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Date: 2010-08-12 12:18 pm (UTC)From reading that, it looks like Sherlock has all the issues that Moffat has in general but amped up even more because Sherlock isn't a "kid's show". I was already at ease with my disinterest in his new show but it's always... I don't know... validating?... to have someone who appears to have had no feelings about his writing one way or the other prior to watching something of his to notice the same issues that I do.