#insulting to women

Jeremy Brett was a feminist. He would never have tolerated the depiction of suffragettes as conspiratorial terrorists and murderers using the tactics of the KKK, and neither would Doyle. Not even with Mr. Creosote Mycroft saying that they had to win. That contemptuous insult was meant purely for the ardent end of the fan base. Of course it’s a clue intended to denote that there is an army of Moriartys, as well as all the other clue baits Moftiss has riddled the show with, but I am now finished with this game. BBCS is nice plot crack and slick production, but the moral meat and potatoes of Doyle is lost to all of them.

The best thing Moftiss ever did was fail to provide a seasonal shooting schedule for BBCS so that the principals could go on to fame and fortune. It made me put down the fandom banner and take up Canon and Granada, and I haven’t looked back since.

Mrs Hudson: “I’m your landlady, not a plot device.” And then suffragettes become an army of plot devices. Ironic much? Women can be bad guys, occasionally, with real motive. We can even be individual assassins if the need arises. But to put us in an organized tactical bed with the Ku Klux Klan is an insult to the gender which holds all of humanity to a moral bar of genuine goodness- that *man*kind persistently fails to raise itself.  A vast section of Doyle’s Canon concerned itself with protecting abused and wronged women, and Dr. Joseph Bell’s invention of CSI was extremely motivated in solving such crimes.  The ripper was the prime example.

I find it ironic that it was Victorian men and Jeremy Brett who could so easily comprehend this. To depict women as stooping to answer their treatment in the same fashion as organized terrorists is infuriating at minimum.  And to make us use orange pips and pointy hats…done, Moftiss.  So done.