I saw someone ask if Irene couldn't have been a crafty schoolteacher or something, because dominatrix was so obvious.
LOL - yeah, in my mind, "schoolteacher" is such a female stereotype...that would have been 10x worse, not to mention, as you point out, it wouldn't have made any sense for blackmail material.
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.
Yes, exactly. I'm all for discussions about her motivations, and why or how she ended up going to Moriarty (and what that says about her character)...these are all concerns and questions of mine too. But as you say, it all made for a very interesting episode, and much more intriguing than original Irene...who, I'm sure was an intriguing woman for Victorian times, but wouldn't make for a very interesting story these days.
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Date: 2012-01-05 05:32 am (UTC)I saw someone ask if Irene couldn't have been a crafty schoolteacher or something, because dominatrix was so obvious.
LOL - yeah, in my mind, "schoolteacher" is such a female stereotype...that would have been 10x worse, not to mention, as you point out, it wouldn't have made any sense for blackmail material.
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.
Yes, exactly. I'm all for discussions about her motivations, and why or how she ended up going to Moriarty (and what that says about her character)...these are all concerns and questions of mine too. But as you say, it all made for a very interesting episode, and much more intriguing than original Irene...who, I'm sure was an intriguing woman for Victorian times, but wouldn't make for a very interesting story these days.