{"id":139,"date":"2013-05-29T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-06-14T21:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:13:25","slug":"dr-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/dr-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elementary<\/em> is one of the best shows going, in my opinion.<\/h1>\n

Sherlock Holmes has been done so many times – with many being very good – that I thought trying it again was ill-advised. \u00a0I’m delighted that the talented people at CBS proved me wrong.<\/p>\n

Most TV shows I don’t like in the first place. \u00a0I didn’t plan to give Elementary\u00a0<\/em>a try. However, my wife started watching the show, so I couldn’t help but overhear it.<\/p>\n

When Elementary<\/em> started to get interesting, I’d search for reasons not to like it. \u00a0Why? As I’ve earlier mentioned,\u00a0I get attached to the characters in shows I like. \u00a0When I find myself starting to like a show (which rarely happens), I try to remain aloof. \u00a0The last thing I need is someone else to worry about.<\/p>\n

The character in\u00a0Elementary<\/em> that compelled me to give it a chance wasn’t Watson or Sherlock; rather, it was Captain Tobias (played by Aidan Quinn). \u00a0His cool, “old-school” persona, I reasoned, would give ballast to a very new way of seeing Holmes and Watson. That’s why I thought the show deserved a chance.<\/p>\n

Like so many good shows, it’s gotten better as it’s progressed. \u00a0The Watson-Sherlock dynamic has matured, with Doctor Watson becoming Detective Watson.<\/p>\n

Doctor Watson – played by the beautiful, but very understated Lucy Liu – starts out skeptical of Holmes. \u00a0After all, she is the Doctor assigned to oversee his recovery from addiction. \u00a0Gradually Holmes wins Watson over to his way of thinking. \u00a0He has her questioning the world as she knew it before. \u00a0Eventually she rejects her old world to join him. \u00a0However, she alone is seen as being sane; Holmes, though admittedly brilliant, is agreed by all their colleagues to have a loose grasp on reality. \u00a0Therefore, Watson and Holmes have a “Scully and Mulder” dimension.<\/p>\n

My advice? \u00a0If you haven’t seen\u00a0Elementary<\/em> yet, watch it – and love it. \u00a0Here’s Dr. Watson.<\/p>\n

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Sources: Wikipedia<\/a> and IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elementary is one of the best shows going, in my opinion. Sherlock Holmes has been done so many times – with many being very good – that I thought trying it again was ill-advised. \u00a0I’m delighted that the talented people at CBS proved me wrong. Most TV shows I don’t like in the first place. … Continue reading “Dr. Watson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}