My problem wasn't so much that she was a sex worker, but that in the book she could intellectually out-argue Holmes, and in this version, all she does it out-sex him.
I'm not so sure that in Victorian times it was all that scandalous to be a singer/stage performer. I mean it wouldn't have been exactly what the family wanted, maybe, but I think the whole "actor/whore" thing might have been a tad earlier than that.
Irene Adler was certainly scandalous in the book, for her time. But she was also smarter than Holmes. ^_^
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Date: 2012-01-19 10:13 pm (UTC)I'm not so sure that in Victorian times it was all that scandalous to be a singer/stage performer. I mean it wouldn't have been exactly what the family wanted, maybe, but I think the whole "actor/whore" thing might have been a tad earlier than that.
Irene Adler was certainly scandalous in the book, for her time. But she was also smarter than Holmes. ^_^
I'm sorry about your computer, dang.