I always feel the same way about JLM's accent! It sounds so fake to me! I don't get it!
I haven't watched yet--it's on my DVR--but I will say that I have said all along that it's probably a perfectly respectable show, and I think that naming the characters "Holmes" and "Watson" was a blatant plea for publicity to make an otherwise standard procedural get some press, and I hate the crassness of that, because it's like really bad fanfiction, or something. HOWEVER, I haven't watched it yet, so maybe I'll change my mind.
I'm sure you're right about them using Holmes as a blatant hook rather than trying to be an adaptation. It is crass particularly considering they approached the BBC and Moffat to do a US Sherlock adaptation and they said no, but they're doing a version of Holmes now anyway.
At the moment I find it watchable, but I didn't find the first episode engaging on a fandom level, per se.
There were a few big "Oh god no!"s in there. There was I think one tiny bit where I thought, "Okay, there's a Holmes moment" but it blew past so fast I didn't make a note.
I probably shouldn't have read this seeing as we haven't had Elementary in the UK yet, but you've intrigued me with the comments about JLM's accent! He's had an American accent in nearly everything I've ever seen him in, so I'll be interested to hear his English accent! (I'll let you know if it sounds fake!)
I don't know whether it's some mid-Atlanticness in there or the very deliberate way he speaks sometimes, it just seems odd no matter which way he's going.
That is a fair viewpoint and one I held for a long time. I will admit I am partly watching to see if it does turn into an absolute train wreck. (Speaking of Doyle spinning, one of these days I do intend to watch the Holmes adaptation with the dinosaurs.)
"Rice is a natural desiccant." Niiice. I even knew that and it got past me.
I know. Just last year my daughter's boyfriend dropped his IPhone in the toilet and we searched the Internet and found out about putting it in rice to pull out the moisture and save the phone. It never even occurred to me when they were looking for the phone. I didn't eve get it when they pointed out that mentally ill killer bought rice that he was allergic to. I kind of facepalmed when I realized that for once I actually KNEW and had used the clue that helped solve the mystery.
I know! It was shockingly subtle for CBS. There was a lingering shot of the bag of rice early on that made me go "hunh, that must be significant", but it didn't click until then for me either.
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I haven't watched yet--it's on my DVR--but I will say that I have said all along that it's probably a perfectly respectable show, and I think that naming the characters "Holmes" and "Watson" was a blatant plea for publicity to make an otherwise standard procedural get some press, and I hate the crassness of that, because it's like really bad fanfiction, or something. HOWEVER, I haven't watched it yet, so maybe I'll change my mind.
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At the moment I find it watchable, but I didn't find the first episode engaging on a fandom level, per se.
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I know. Just last year my daughter's boyfriend dropped his IPhone in the toilet and we searched the Internet and found out about putting it in rice to pull out the moisture and save the phone. It never even occurred to me when they were looking for the phone. I didn't eve get it when they pointed out that mentally ill killer bought rice that he was allergic to. I kind of facepalmed when I realized that for once I actually KNEW and had used the clue that helped solve the mystery.
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