i think you know a lost cause when you see one;

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Taking a few minutes off Shakespeare and Katherina to consider Arthur Conan Doyle and Joan Watson: a quick outlook on Elementary (mostly because this question is asked me a lot these days? not sure why there's a sudden outpouring of What do you think about Elementary, Sara).

So! Considering this preview:

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Because it's not likely at all that Mofftiss have named Lestrade Greg in reference to Gregson! That wouldn't be in the realm of possibility, at all. IDEK. I'm all for being able to enjoy an adaptation without knowing the source, but when they're starting to make comments as to the originality of Sherlock regarding Sherlock's lack of knowledge about the solar system or the three patch problem, I want to bash them over the head with the canon.

No, I get what you mean - I've skimmed through some of the Elementary-related discussion on tumblr, and participated in some more on LJ, and both times it appeared to me that both sides were being unrealistic and pissing one another off over six bloody minutes of footage.

And yeah, the gay baiting in Sherlock is ... troublesome. I dislike Moffat's way of dealing with such issues, and Gatiss is a little better but he also makes no particular attempt to curbing Moffat's stereotypes. There're a million of ways to consider Sherlock and John's relationship as a love story - because they do love each other, because they'd die for one another, because they know each other better than anyone - without having to pointedly remark every time sometimes makes an allusion to possible gay subtext that It Would Never Happen. In other words, I find it disturbing that the homoerotic undertones always accompanied by "but of course it's not real, it's just a joke, how funny you are for assuming they could ever be in a romantic relationship", when they're purposefully pushing that enveloppe in the show itself.

One thing that's bothersome about that last argument, of course it would be great to have more positive queer representation in the media. It's always good to have queer representation in the media. But it's also great that women and POCs have representation! They're not mutually exclusive! (I'd kill for a happily bisexual Joan Watson, ngl.)