Perception and ElementaryFollow

I'm kind of curious just how Holmes like it'll be, so I'll probably try to check that out for a couple of episode. Not so much the Rule 63ing of Watson, but like the drug use and such.

House was basically Sherlock with a doctor angle, so I don't see some kind of addictive less than legal personality flaw as an impossibility.

I'm torn about whether or not I want to watch Elementary, tbh. I'm not in love with the concept, but I love both the leads. Plus Sherlock Holmes is legit.

I just have to remember to go into it not expecting BBC Sherlock.

The only shows I even bother to DVR right now are Psych, White Collar, Suits, and The Glades. All of them are off-season shows so it would be nice for me to find something I enjoy watching that comes on during the normal programming season. I used to be a big fan of CSI:NY, but it got weird when Mac left the NYPD. I know he's back with them now, but they lost me with that story twist.

Yeah, part of the problem is that the BBC series is amazing so it's my new bar for all things Sherlock Holmes...

I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, the drug addiction is actually a canonical aspect of Holmes' character. On the other, Holmes has always been a fairly asexual character--I'm not sure I like them adding a sexual fetish. Seems like complete overkill to me.

Or maybe they did it to establish a reason for his and Liu's relationship to be desexualized. Who knows.

Irene Adler. But their relationship was never sexual in the books. And Watson goes out of his way to clarify that Sherlock never loved her (the exact quote, since I have the book on my phone, is "It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind." As far as I can remember, there was definitely no indication of attraction on an emotional or sexual level for her from Sherlock. She certainly fascinated him, but that was the most we get.

Of course, the books were also written a century ago, so it's possible that the emotional side was nonexistent and Doyle wasn't willing to publish anything really alluding to Sherlock's sexuality. Still, they dwell on how Sherlock was disgusted by the "softer passions." Whether or not lovemaking in a physical sense was included in that is up to interpretation, I suppose.

I often see Sherlock Holmes and John Watson referred to as heterosexual life partners.

It's definitely not an uncommon interpretation of the books, but I think it's generally a non-sexual attraction in those theories.

It's more like Holmes and Watson are meant to be partners, and EVERY other relationship becomes secondary to that. And because of their personalities, it means it's impossible for Watson to keep a meaningful relationship (indeed, his second wife is never even named). And they both get jealous when they get close to others (women, really).

I don't think their relationship is sexual. But asexual people can still experience romantic love, so I won't rule that out. If anything, I'm inclined to say that Holmes was an asexual in love with Watson, and Watson was a heterosexual man who fell in love with Sherlock. I think they love each other, and it's definitely platonic. The only question is if its platonic in the sense of friendship, or in the sense of romance. But I don't think the answer really makes any difference, because at the end of the day their relationship is unique to them, and the other always comes first in their minds. It's more like we're trying to figure out which relationship we lesser mortals could best understand Sherlock Holmes through.

And the season after that, they'll wake up and realize it was all just a dream (or drug induced hallucination). It's like storytelling gold!

I tried watching the second episode, and I just couldn't. I'm not sure what it is, but it just doesn't capture my attention.

I think both shows star House-esque characters. Both are flawed geniuses in their field. I like Elementary more than Perception, and since I have limited DVR space, I've stopped recording Perception. There's little chance I'll watch it when it comes on, since it airs opposite Monday Night Football and Monday Night Raw.

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