something that looks like the typical CBS procedural with a quirky/damaged lead character that happens to have some recognizable names.
THIS. And the thing is, CBS has shown that's a trope that already works for them, so why bother tying it in to Holmes at all?
I'm not actually anti-Elementary; I'm just starting to wish that they'd done what they obviously wanted to do, which is stamp out a new series, period. *They could have.* Canon is out of copyright; there was absolutely nothing Moffat could do if they'd had a detective with addiction issues and an ex-army doctor.
The remake of Beauty and the Beast doesn't make me itch half as much, but then, neither Catherine nor Vincent are one of the world's most recognizable literary figures.
And while I'm with you on wanting more people to read canon, I'm wondering how many people will pick up canon after Elementary and go "WTF?" and put it back down. (Or worse, a Goldberg tie-in novel followed by the man himself bitching at Malice that Holmes fans dared correct him over canonical points. Not that I have obvious issues with him or anything.)
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Date: 2012-05-18 10:01 am (UTC)THIS. And the thing is, CBS has shown that's a trope that already works for them, so why bother tying it in to Holmes at all?
I'm not actually anti-Elementary; I'm just starting to wish that they'd done what they obviously wanted to do, which is stamp out a new series, period. *They could have.* Canon is out of copyright; there was absolutely nothing Moffat could do if they'd had a detective with addiction issues and an ex-army doctor.
The remake of Beauty and the Beast doesn't make me itch half as much, but then, neither Catherine nor Vincent are one of the world's most recognizable literary figures.
And while I'm with you on wanting more people to read canon, I'm wondering how many people will pick up canon after Elementary and go "WTF?" and put it back down. (Or worse, a Goldberg tie-in novel followed by the man himself bitching at Malice that Holmes fans dared correct him over canonical points. Not that I have obvious issues with him or anything.)