Found my way here through missyjack and felt the need to step in here and give you a fistbump.
This is exactly what has been annoying me about pretty much all of the critique of Sherlock's Irene Adler that I've seen. Saying sex is her only power makes me wonder what the hell they were watching while I enjoyed Sherlock. Her intelligence is obvious throughout the episode.
I saw someone ask if Irene couldn't have been a crafty schoolteacher or something, because dominatrix was so obvious. How they expect a schoolteacher have access to the kind of blackmail material Irene needed I have no idea.
Although there are some valid questions about her motivation as well as the fact that, as intelligent as she was, she should have been able to come up with a plan on how to use her phone without Moriarty's help, she made sense in the context of the original Irene while being, IMO, a lot more interesting.
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Date: 2012-01-05 05:10 am (UTC)This is exactly what has been annoying me about pretty much all of the critique of Sherlock's Irene Adler that I've seen. Saying sex is her only power makes me wonder what the hell they were watching while I enjoyed Sherlock. Her intelligence is obvious throughout the episode.
I saw someone ask if Irene couldn't have been a crafty schoolteacher or something, because dominatrix was so obvious. How they expect a schoolteacher have access to the kind of blackmail material Irene needed I have no idea.
Although there are some valid questions about her motivation as well as the fact that, as intelligent as she was, she should have been able to come up with a plan on how to use her phone without Moriarty's help, she made sense in the context of the original Irene while being, IMO, a lot more interesting.
So yeah. *fistbump*