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"Natalie Dormer portrays Irene Adler who, in a stunning move, is also revealed to be Jamie Moriarty. Thus, in a clever narrative twist the woman whom Holmes found most impressive in the original stories in terms of intelligence and resourcefulness the one who would always be known as the woman is also his archenemy. The evil Professor James Moriarty, Napoleon of crime is now a beautiful but still treacherous consulting criminal, a near-perfect femme fatale.
Those working with Doyle's stories often superimpose a romantic interest upon Holmes' relationship with Adler. In Elementary this is, very successfully, transposed to the relationship Holmes has with Moriarty"
LMAO, "successfully"
Yes, a "stunning move". No one's ever shoehorned Adler into a connection with Moriarty before, well done to Elementary for being the first ever to do that oh wait countless adaptations and pastiches have done that before. And yes, so "stunning" to have the woman who got the better of Holmes turned into the character who gets beaten by Holmes instead. Gosh how radical that was.
Irene Adler is not and never should be a "femme fatale", my god
And there is nothing radical or "clever" about turning Adler into a villain, there is nothing radical or "clever" about forcing her into a totally non-canonical connection with Moriarty, there is absolutely nothing radical or "clever" about turning Moriarty into a woman and then having her ~in love~ with Holmes and effectively getting beaten by him because she's ~in love~ with him and thoroughly shitting on the quite probably deliberately queer-coded relationship with Moran in the process.
Also while I hate Holmes/Moriarty don't think I haven't noticed that doing that also effectively shits on another popular m/m ship which indeed does have canonical elements to support it and just turned it into yet another tedious heterosexual relationship.
Those working with Doyle's stories often superimpose a romantic interest upon Holmes' relationship with Adler. In Elementary this is, very successfully, transposed to the relationship Holmes has with Moriarty"
LMAO, "successfully"
Yes, a "stunning move". No one's ever shoehorned Adler into a connection with Moriarty before, well done to Elementary for being the first ever to do that oh wait countless adaptations and pastiches have done that before. And yes, so "stunning" to have the woman who got the better of Holmes turned into the character who gets beaten by Holmes instead. Gosh how radical that was.
Irene Adler is not and never should be a "femme fatale", my god
And there is nothing radical or "clever" about turning Adler into a villain, there is nothing radical or "clever" about forcing her into a totally non-canonical connection with Moriarty, there is absolutely nothing radical or "clever" about turning Moriarty into a woman and then having her ~in love~ with Holmes and effectively getting beaten by him because she's ~in love~ with him and thoroughly shitting on the quite probably deliberately queer-coded relationship with Moran in the process.
Also while I hate Holmes/Moriarty don't think I haven't noticed that doing that also effectively shits on another popular m/m ship which indeed does have canonical elements to support it and just turned it into yet another tedious heterosexual relationship.
