I do not get to watch much television, but when I do I have a select choice of programming. “A Scandal in Bohemia” was the first of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes 56 short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine. The story takes off when Holmes is approached by the King (be it in disguise) who finds himself in a bit of a pickle about a photo that was taking some years earlier of himself with an American opera singer, Irene Adler, and now that he is to be married to a young Scandinavian princess, this photo could prove to be more than embarrassing (Bless the upper classes and their funny ways!).
Not that there is never a good reason to blog about Sherlock Holmes, but the new updated version of version of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story which has been running on the BBC over the past year has recently caused a bit of a stir. As I have been following this new updated version of series I can vouch for the ‘updated’ bit, episode 1 of the second series sees this particular story renamed “A Scandal in Belgravia”, in it Holmes and Watson are attempting to recover incriminating photos from Irene Adler which are stored digitally on her mobile phone, and the royal they incriminate is a female.
“People don’t really go to heaven when they die. They’re taken to a special room and burned” Sherlock
So what’s all the fuss about this new version? Well Irene Adler’s character (played by Lara Pulver) appears wearing only diamond earrings, lipstick and heels 25 minutes before the 9pm TV watershed. As a dominatrix she is to be seen perched suggestively on a chair stroking Holmes’ face with a riding crop, this is after an earlier scene where she can be seen wearing a thong and carrying a whip as she walked into a room containing a woman tied to a bed. As I said…Updated!!
“Look at those cheekbones. I cut myself slapping that face. Would you like me to try?” Irene Adler
TV viewers the length and breath of the country were apparently up in arms about this ‘sort of thing’ going out on TV so early (pre-watershed), whilst I agree with them on that matter (kids still up), I can see how this bit of publicity will probably push the show up the ratings charts over the remainder of the series.
“I would have you, right here, on this desk, until you begged for mercy twice.” Irene Adler
Lara Pulver has got a new fan in Andy H, the English actress who has previously appeared in a TV series of Robin Hood, True Blood and the excellent Spooks is magnificent in Sherlock, and I would be honoured to tie her to a bed for a session any day of the week (should take her mind off her recent break up with that Mr Dallas).
“Everything I said. It’s not real. I was just playing the game.” Irene Adler
YUM, two of my favorite things in the same piece…wonder if I’ll have dreams of being spanked on Baker Street, tonight? Sherlock went out to listen to some classical music, then he sees the person he’s been tailing. It was so nice of him to dress as a Master; I can still feel the sting from the flogger, but my clit’s so swollen i don’t care…..Yeah, that would be a nice dream prompt
I’m happy to have tickled you with this particular posting BHC!
Is Sherlock Holmes the making of a truly great ‘Master”?
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four)
Here’s to more wonderful floggings at Baker Street BHC!
I would gladly take a flogging from Sherlock Holmes & most likely, his brother as well. Professor Moriarty, not so much
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