Excellent post! I'm very glad that you chose to focus on the Good Doctor, rather than the Great Detective, because I am very much a sidekick girl myself. Also: any post containing two Jude Law photos instantly contains win!
I'd never seen that House/Holmes connection before. Yes, of course. It makes absolute sense now.
I read some of the books when I was younger and found the prose a bit too dry, also the detective brilliance not as brilliant as it was made out to be (mostly because detective writers following in ACD's footsteps were forced to be more and more inventive in competition with each other and the master). However, from Richie's first movie, I've been hooked on the Watson/Holmes dynamic. BBC Sherlock just added to that, and is obsessingly good. My love of that should have got me over my resistance to Elementary, which I've only heard good things about. However: Watson is my barrier. Either female or American I could have pushed myself past, but both is still too great a fence for me to leap. I'm sure I'll get there.
What an intelligent post! A great read as always with everything you write (I read & loved the D for Drama, and the Dr W post but haven't commented on either I'm afraid).
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I'd never seen that House/Holmes connection before. Yes, of course. It makes absolute sense now.
I read some of the books when I was younger and found the prose a bit too dry, also the detective brilliance not as brilliant as it was made out to be (mostly because detective writers following in ACD's footsteps were forced to be more and more inventive in competition with each other and the master). However, from Richie's first movie, I've been hooked on the Watson/Holmes dynamic. BBC Sherlock just added to that, and is obsessingly good. My love of that should have got me over my resistance to Elementary, which I've only heard good things about. However: Watson is my barrier. Either female or American I could have pushed myself past, but both is still too great a fence for me to leap. I'm sure I'll get there.
What an intelligent post! A great read as always with everything you write (I read & loved the D for Drama, and the Dr W post but haven't commented on either I'm afraid).
You only missed out one of my favourite Watsons: