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sunnyskywalker) wrote2012-10-07 02:36 pm
sunnyskywalker) wrote2012-10-07 02:36 pm
Elementary, wtf?
I've started watching Elementary, because Lucy Liu is Watson and we all know that Watson was a woman and how awesome to see that on screen? What a pity that they didn't make Holmes a woman as well. And/or Moriarty, who has not appeared yet but surely will. Me, I nominate Nicole Wallace as an arch-nemesis to shake things up. Surely Goren isn't the only genius detective after her? Come to think of it, isn't he halfway to being Holmes already? ...but I'm getting off track.
So. Original Watson was an army doctor back from Afghanistan after being wounded and sick. The modernized Watson of BBC's Sherlock has the same backstory, because duh, you don't have to change a thing! In Elementary, they've played up Holmes's drug addiction even more - the show starts with him getting out of rehab and being assigned Dr. Watson as a companion to keep him on the straight and narrow - so you think you know her backstory too: an army doctor sick and/or wounded in Afghanistan, she's now devoted herself to trying to heal people's mental wounds after seeing many of her former army buddies end up addicted to drugs.
Except no, she has no military background that we've yet heard. She was a civilian surgeon in New York, killed a patient, and changed careers. Because now that she's a woman, she can't just be done with her term of service; she has to have triple the insecurity or something, I guess.
Blech.
So. Original Watson was an army doctor back from Afghanistan after being wounded and sick. The modernized Watson of BBC's Sherlock has the same backstory, because duh, you don't have to change a thing! In Elementary, they've played up Holmes's drug addiction even more - the show starts with him getting out of rehab and being assigned Dr. Watson as a companion to keep him on the straight and narrow - so you think you know her backstory too: an army doctor sick and/or wounded in Afghanistan, she's now devoted herself to trying to heal people's mental wounds after seeing many of her former army buddies end up addicted to drugs.
Except no, she has no military background that we've yet heard. She was a civilian surgeon in New York, killed a patient, and changed careers. Because now that she's a woman, she can't just be done with her term of service; she has to have triple the insecurity or something, I guess.
Blech.