Let me think about... "Elementary"

Usually rather popular things are thought to have no hidden meaning or rather good things are not popular enough.  I`m going to take sometimes some of them for a discussion.

The Fifteenth - "Sherlockomania". Monologue on the "Elementary" series.

There was a premiere of "Elementary" on the First channel. But I`ve already watched it a week before it. And didn`t like it. Why?

Well, as you can see, Sherlock Holmes is a worldwide trend nowdays. It`s even getting ridiculous and annoying... like that long-skirted tning of this summer in Russia and Pussy Riot, if you know what I mean. There`s a growing desire in me to shout "Leave Sherlock along!!! with Moffat!":))) But nobody would listen... So, there are:
- Ritchie`s "Sherlock Holmes",
- then "Elementary",
- russians are already screening a "new" old-fashioned set of adventures in Saint Petesburg (prepare to the show in 2012)
- and (attention!) - in 2012 there`s going to be series called "Freud`s Method" ("Метод Фрейда") which is, as I see, almost a copy of the "Sherlock" series! The image with a coat and a scarf, camera focusing on noticed clues (including parts of bodies), the behavior, even the music resembles "Welcome to London" a bit! Steven, you got to do something with it!


That`s what I`ve said to myself after watching the pilot:

"Okay. I, a Russian Whovian and Sherlockian (not a dirty spoiled one), have just watched a pilot version of s01e01 of the “Elementary” series (if it`s going to be one). What do we see here?

A girl, a beautiful one, quite short, a former surgeon who killed a patient and since then she comes to his grave to cry him over. Nice relationships with parents, but father had an affair. We`ll find out her opinion about that soon. There will be quarrels, rough conversations over the mobile phone, sarcastic remindings and so on – classic American drama.

A man, a handsome one, about 30-35 years old, quite tall, who seems to be really sick… Not now, but, you know, there are the drug addicted who can`t control themselves usually get to special clinics. The real Sherlock always could, couldn`t he?

Sex? Really? Sherlock didn`t need it. Tattoos? To express what? His special feature is his mind, not the body. There should be some stories about them if this thing is going to be continued.

Joahn Watson, a patient-killing surgeon willing to comfort her conscious VS John Watson, a former military physician, whose leg wants an action. That`s what we`ve got...

To avoid gay jokes the creators decided to take a girl, and got another problem – friendship between a man and a woman. And what if some things lead them to one bed? “Hypothetically”, ha?

No mistakes corrected. From the title (“Elementary”) taken from a phrase which was used in one of the first American screening versions of Arthur Conan`s stories in 1939 (quite a bad one, but funny) to “dedication” which is supposed to be an “indication”.

The Meeting was the best scene in the whole episode. By the way, I think, that before Holmes (or who he is) was training to read lips, am I right?) Poor, poor Watson… Just wait for a bit, be close and ready, don`t forget that “Sherlock” needs satisfaction…

Sometime later my rage will pass and I`ll write something about this in full sentences and without sarcasm. May be there already will be season two… series like this is made quickly and about 20 episodes per season. I`m not impressed. And that`s not about the twenty-one-century idea or the-best Cumberbatch or not-a-blue-one scarf or not-a-long-blue-coat (made of a different fabric), as you see".

Anyway, I`m going to watch the next episode to see how bad it is.)