So America's gonna remake Sherlock

Oh, no, I'm sorry. America isn't remaking BBC's Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson (pictured below). They're just making a modernised version of Sherlock Holmes' adventures.

Above: Pure Awesome (left) and Pure Brilliance (right).

Named Elementary (really, America? Really?), in this version, Sherlock Holmes is a former consultant of Scotland Yard whose addiction problems landed him in a rehab centre in New York City (because there aren't any in the UK, evidentally). This led him to meeting his sober companion, Watson, a former surgeon who lost her license after killing a patient. Whoops.

That's all well and good for America. It sounds like they've tried to put their own (sterotypical) spin on it, as opposed to plain blatently ripping off the WAY more interesting Sherlock.

Above: Blargh (left) and Pure Awesome (right) during a stage adaption of Frankenstein

Meet Johny Lee Miller (pictured above - the bald one. The other one is Sherlock Holmes), star of Hackers and other things, AKA the new Sherlock Holmes. The good news about this is that he's British. The bad news... well, he's playing an American take on Sherlock Holmes.

Now for the really bad news.

You would NOT believe what I had to type into Google to find a picture of Lucy Liu with clothes on

Meet JOAN Watson. Yes, in this version of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson will be a woman. Normally, I'm all for putting a spin on a traditional. When I initially found out that in Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck would a woman, I was intrigued. Unlike the thousands (read: twelve) people who complained that 'Hey, Starbuck is a cigar smoking, card playing, ace pilot man person', I felt like giving her a chance and I was right to do so. Starbuck in the reimagined series was a brilliant, complex, neurotic character, and possibly even better then the original. 

That is NOT the case here.

Making John Watson a woman can only mean one thing. Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson will, at some point, be having sex. There will probably be series after series after series (God, I hope it gets cancelled before that point) of 'Will they? Won't they?' moments and frankly, I disapprove. The reason the Holmes and Watson duo works is because they're best friends. Nothing more, nothing less (sorry, Kerri). This is just a marketing scheme to entice viewers and frankly, I do not think it works.

Earlier today, I said to Kerri that I would watch the Pilot and form a judgement based soley on that. I've changed my mind. I will watch the Pilot. However, I will do so hoping that this gets cancelled, and hold onto the notions I have stated here until the show proves to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am wrong. Will I be proved wrong? I actually hope so. Do I expect to be? No, not in the slighest.

In conclusion, I think the title is a horrible pun, making Watson a woman is an idiotic mistake and I hope it gets cancelled very quickly.