No, no useless at all! I had conflicting feelings, too. As you might have seen in previous comments, I read a kids' version of the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was very young, and I've loved him ever since. I enjoyed these episodes, even as I reacted violently against this version of Holmes and the message they were sending. Culture is complicated. :)
I didn't realize that the creators of this series were also the creators or writers of the new Dr Who, and friends tell me this explains a lot about the themes of human and superhuman and the peculiar, shorthand kind of character development we see. I do know that this scenario--organizing an entire movie or show around the explanation of and excuses for a man's bad behavior--is all too common.
I *do* think that you can read and write these stories against the grain and find something new and wonderful in them, and I don't think that makes you (us) bad progressives, or bad lesbians, or bad people. But I just wish we didn't have to, you know?
Thanks for such a long and thoughtful comment, cartoonheroine. M.
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Re: this is a long and possibly useless comment, and was written while 80% asleep.
Date: 2011-05-28 09:08 pm (UTC)I didn't realize that the creators of this series were also the creators or writers of the new Dr Who, and friends tell me this explains a lot about the themes of human and superhuman and the peculiar, shorthand kind of character development we see. I do know that this scenario--organizing an entire movie or show around the explanation of and excuses for a man's bad behavior--is all too common.
I *do* think that you can read and write these stories against the grain and find something new and wonderful in them, and I don't think that makes you (us) bad progressives, or bad lesbians, or bad people. But I just wish we didn't have to, you know?
Thanks for such a long and thoughtful comment, cartoonheroine. M.