Sherlock Discourse Community

The discourse community which I investigated was from a site called sherlockforum.com. This site is very popular especially for the series Sherlock, since it has all of the episodes and then discussions on each one. I loved watching this show and I watched the first two episodes, so when I realized that one of the questions asked me to investigate one discourse community I was very excited to see other people's views on the show and how they compare with mine. I ended up investigating the discourses on “A Study in Pink”, which is the title of the first episode. This discourse has 465 replies and 14,193 views, but is not very popular anymore because it has been 6 years since the release of the episode. I observed that the last post was posted in March 2016, which is surprising because it showed me that there …show more content…
I saw proof of this when I read more posts which talked about how the series is humorous, dramatic, action packed, and suspenseful. This really surprised me because the Sherlock Holmes writings which I read before watching the episodes was totally different in that it did not have as many aspects as the series. Another topic that was big in the discussion was the nature of Sherlock Holmes. Many people wrote how they felt Sherlock Holmes was just a brat the first time they saw him and that they like John more than Sherlock. The reason that Sherlock was disliked by many people in the beginning was because of his attitude and his speaking tone, while John was loved because of his caring and helping nature. The goal of the discourse community is not just to express their thoughts about how they like the first episode, but to describe the unique nature of the series and to bring people together. Through this community many people with similar views or different views come together to share because they are interested in episode one or the series as a