With the exceptions of the names, it's as if the scriptwriters put Monk (constant monitoring), House (addiction, abrasive behavior), and CSI/NCIS/blah blah (crime solving) into a blender. Which makes me wonder why they even bothered with the names.
I've been wrestling with this for the past day, because the trailer doesn't put forward anything recognizably Holmes beyond the name. What I do get from the trailer is something that looks like the typical CBS procedural with a quirky/damaged lead character that happens to have some recognizable names.
I'm led to two conclusions. One, there is nothing Holmesian about Elementary. Two, the series' Holmesian elements are downplayed in the trailer for Elementary because they don't sell the series well. I'm hoping for the latter, I fear the former.
I do want Elementary to be good and to thrive. Anything that gets people interested in the Canon is a good thing. And, to be frank, a competing series could prompt Moffat to up his game, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
The Ritchie movies owe more to canon than this!
They do. A Game of Shadows may just be my favorite version of FINA. :)
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I've been wrestling with this for the past day, because the trailer doesn't put forward anything recognizably Holmes beyond the name. What I do get from the trailer is something that looks like the typical CBS procedural with a quirky/damaged lead character that happens to have some recognizable names.
I'm led to two conclusions. One, there is nothing Holmesian about Elementary. Two, the series' Holmesian elements are downplayed in the trailer for Elementary because they don't sell the series well. I'm hoping for the latter, I fear the former.
I do want Elementary to be good and to thrive. Anything that gets people interested in the Canon is a good thing. And, to be frank, a competing series could prompt Moffat to up his game, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
The Ritchie movies owe more to canon than this!
They do. A Game of Shadows may just be my favorite version of FINA. :)