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PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on May 02, 2012, 01:23:56 pm --- This has quickly become one of my favorite shows. I love Mr Cumberbatch as well. He seems to be playing the
character with a renewed verve. I know its greatly different because of the time frame. That however is not the reason
that I have noticed such a difference from the always accepted way that he has been interpreted.
The other interpretations has always had him being very strident and unbendinly secure in everything he thinks. He
always seems to have a decision made. Then trying to find evidence to prove himself right.
This character seems to be thinking on his feet, and often willing to change his mind if the information warrants it.
I too was under the impression that the two main characters were lovers. I got several hints, and they make off
hand remarks tht lead in that direction. Its not overt, but there. Now they seem to be saying he is going to fall for a
woman. Maybe he is bi sexual.. ?//
May be wrong, I too am willing to accept new information.. It is just my interpretation of it.
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I haven't been on any Sherlock boards since last fall since I didn't want to be spoiled for the new season, but many of us were afraid they'd go the Sherlock-falls-for-Irene route since they were doing that episode. I sincerely hope not. The producers had been trying to stick close to the original stories as much as possible, and the episode with Irene Adler has NOTHING to do with a romance, unrequited, from a distance or otherwise. I hope they didn't sell out for the sake of trying to reassure a larger audience of Sherlock's heterosexuality.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on May 02, 2012, 06:34:21 pm ---Many of us were afraid they'd go the Sherlock-falls-for-Irene route since they were doing that episode. I sincerely hope not. The producers had been trying to stick close to the original stories as much as possible, and the episode with Irene Adler has NOTHING to do with a romance, unrequited, from a distance or otherwise. I hope they didn't sell out for the sake of trying to reassure a larger audience of Sherlock's heterosexuality.
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"To Sherlock Holmes, she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. ... It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. ... He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. ... And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."
;D
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 02, 2012, 06:51:48 pm ---"To Sherlock Holmes, she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. ... It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. ... He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. ... And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."
;D
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I hope they stick to it. :-\
ifyoucantfixit:
I hope so as well.
I love this show for being what I consider more true to the real characters because they show what
is pretty overt conversation that allows one to think in terms of homosexuality. I was wondering if they were
possibly going to change that line in order to appeal to the larger demographic in the USA.
Please excuse any typos. My computer is acting like a spoiled child now. Having trouble keeping it in a straight line. It is
jumping around and skipping some letters...ggggggggguuuh
Jeff Wrangler:
So, according to what I just read in this morning's Metro, they're making Irene Adler into ... a dominatrix?
:o
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