I'm going to wait until I see the other two eps, as this one feels like a part I more than anything else. Two thoughts, though.
5. my snap response is that she represents a third path, in contrast to Jim and Sherlock. I, for one, liked how she embraced her sexuality, but that she had no idea how to run a blackmail of that calibre felt...weak. I wonder if this ep was more an "(re-)introduce everyone and make a clear channel of interaction between Jim and Sherlock."
6. I still, after this ep, read Sherlock as asexual, but not absolutely - invoking the "everyone has an exception" rule. The dynamic between Irene and Sherlock read as more intellectual, and if anything, the dynamic between John and Sherlock became even less sexual.
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Date: 2012-01-03 09:54 pm (UTC)5. my snap response is that she represents a third path, in contrast to Jim and Sherlock. I, for one, liked how she embraced her sexuality, but that she had no idea how to run a blackmail of that calibre felt...weak. I wonder if this ep was more an "(re-)introduce everyone and make a clear channel of interaction between Jim and Sherlock."
6. I still, after this ep, read Sherlock as asexual, but not absolutely - invoking the "everyone has an exception" rule. The dynamic between Irene and Sherlock read as more intellectual, and if anything, the dynamic between John and Sherlock became even less sexual.