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Stop me if this sounds familiar.
Watson: Sherlock, let's play LEGO Batman, that'll really help you stay sober.
Sherlock: Listen, you warthog-faced idiocy incubator, when I want your opinion I'll pry open your face and put a Post-It note on your skull. Am I clear or do I have to repeat myself for the syphilis sufferers in the audience, i.e. you?
Watson: I don't appreciate that.
Sherlock: You're right, I'm sorry, you're quite a wonderful person and I couldn't have solved the case without you.
Audience (if this were a TGIF sitcom): D'awwwww...
Of course, Sherlock did something similar, with Sherlock being literally comedically sociopathic and Watson being all kinds of long-suffering (Martin Freeman not having to put up with a variety of exasperating situations just seems wrong, doesn't it?), but there seemed to be less open insulting going on. As I said earlier, after the first episode, they quickly moved onto the classic Sherlock/Watson broship, while Elementary is still stuck in the first hour of Lethal Weapon.
Which is valid, since it's more... characterization-y... but still, it's hard not to read it as yet another post-millenial hard-on for origin stories. We can't just have Sherlock and Watson fighting crime, we have to see them meeting For The First Time and slowly revealing their Tortured Pasts and c'mon, guys, who cares? Sherlock, first episode, Watson was in the war and got fucked up, boom, we're good, moving on.
So Sherlock!Sherlock is a sociopath who is basically going through 'therapy' to realize the people in his life matter, but whose relationship with Watson is quickly and soundly established, while Elementary!Sherlock is pretty well set (in terms of knowing his lesson, but learning it over and over because reset button), while his relationship with Watson is unestablished and being worked on over the long haul. So it's a question of which story arc you want to see: Sherlock Holmes becoming a better person or Sherlock Holmes befriending Watson.
Also, Sherlock!Sherlock has canon mental issues, while Elementary!Sherlock just seems to have angst over his dad not loving him. Which is American fiction in a nutshell: "How many daddy issues can we add to this?"
Iron Man - "Man, my dad is great."
Captain America: The First Avenger - "Man, Tony Stark's dad is great."
Iron Man 2 - "We're out of plots, Tony Stark's father was now cruel and unloving."
Watson: Sherlock, let's play LEGO Batman, that'll really help you stay sober.
Sherlock: Listen, you warthog-faced idiocy incubator, when I want your opinion I'll pry open your face and put a Post-It note on your skull. Am I clear or do I have to repeat myself for the syphilis sufferers in the audience, i.e. you?
Watson: I don't appreciate that.
Sherlock: You're right, I'm sorry, you're quite a wonderful person and I couldn't have solved the case without you.
Audience (if this were a TGIF sitcom): D'awwwww...
Of course, Sherlock did something similar, with Sherlock being literally comedically sociopathic and Watson being all kinds of long-suffering (Martin Freeman not having to put up with a variety of exasperating situations just seems wrong, doesn't it?), but there seemed to be less open insulting going on. As I said earlier, after the first episode, they quickly moved onto the classic Sherlock/Watson broship, while Elementary is still stuck in the first hour of Lethal Weapon.
Which is valid, since it's more... characterization-y... but still, it's hard not to read it as yet another post-millenial hard-on for origin stories. We can't just have Sherlock and Watson fighting crime, we have to see them meeting For The First Time and slowly revealing their Tortured Pasts and c'mon, guys, who cares? Sherlock, first episode, Watson was in the war and got fucked up, boom, we're good, moving on.
So Sherlock!Sherlock is a sociopath who is basically going through 'therapy' to realize the people in his life matter, but whose relationship with Watson is quickly and soundly established, while Elementary!Sherlock is pretty well set (in terms of knowing his lesson, but learning it over and over because reset button), while his relationship with Watson is unestablished and being worked on over the long haul. So it's a question of which story arc you want to see: Sherlock Holmes becoming a better person or Sherlock Holmes befriending Watson.
Also, Sherlock!Sherlock has canon mental issues, while Elementary!Sherlock just seems to have angst over his dad not loving him. Which is American fiction in a nutshell: "How many daddy issues can we add to this?"
Iron Man - "Man, my dad is great."
Captain America: The First Avenger - "Man, Tony Stark's dad is great."
Iron Man 2 - "We're out of plots, Tony Stark's father was now cruel and unloving."
