Nothing like getting into Elementary after being a BBC Sherlock fan for so long. Sherlock was overhyped to the point where I was barely aware of Elementary's existence. Now having finished the first season of Elementary, I find it to be infinitely superior. (The same way I find the Davies era of Doctor Who infinitely superior to Moffat's, but that's a rant for another time.) It's incredible how a show can have roughly the same premise and elements and yet one can be so vastly superior.

Miller's Sherlock Holmes has many of the same flaws as Cumberbatch's. Miller's Sherlock can be abrasive and insensitive and even demanding at times, and yet he's far more likeable than Cumberbatch's. Elementary Sherlock Holmes endeavors to acknowledge his failings and apologize, he endeavors to do better. Where BBC Sherlock Holmes loves to humiliate people to prove his cleverness, Elementary Sherlock tries (with mixed results) not to cross lines that are too personal. Elementary Sherlock Holmes doesn't view everyone around him as a complete and utter imbecile; he respects those who put him in his place when he's being an ass. Elementary Sherlock cares about the well-being of others and at times barely manages to keep his anger under wraps when he deals with the evil of the world.

(Of course, it's okay to write a character with flaws, but when you romanticize those flaws it is quickly exhausting to watch.)

I'm usually a little hard on American adaptations despite being an American myself, but CBS Elementary respects its viewers whereas BBC Sherlock insists on treating you like a complete and utter imbecile for having the gall to ask about the giant plot holes littered throughout the show.

CBS Elementary tells a compelling story about Sherlock's struggle with mental health and addiction that humanizes the character. Sherlock has an interesting and compelling dynamic with his family where he feels neglected by his father, correctly predicting yet another failure to follow through at dinner. BBC Sherlock gives us a background for the main character that makes no sense after the writer said it would be a mistake to go there.

BBC Sherlock takes one of the most iconic female antagonists of all time and just... ruins the whole story with her. Elementary respects its female characters, isn't an all-white cast, and responds to the possibility of people being LGBT with a mere shrug, as if it's nothing out of the ordinary. (In stark contrast to BBC Sherlock that reminds you every five minutes its main characters aren't gay and then decided that they'd make their main villain scary by having him act gay to the point where it's noted by characters on screen, including said villain himself. Also his main motivation is he's obsessed with the main character I guess??)

It's... wild to think that all this time I could have been enjoying a show that didn't make me feel like an idiot for liking it. Oh well, I get to enjoy it now.

why is it that literally Every Single Woman moffat writes as a love interest for the doctor is someone he meets when they're little girls and he's a grown ass man and they all grow up idolising him. and he also has a whole episode where a grown woman befriends and spends a day with a child every day for her but once a year for him and then she gets with him like a few days after meeting him as like an 8 then 9 then 10 etc etc year old. i need this man to die

as if i needed further reasons to hate steven moffat i find a qoute like this to fuel it.

WHAT did this man have against rose and ten. literally why did he hate her so much. actually why did he hate absolutely everything RTD built across 5 series.

steven moffat has a lot to answer for in his poor writing of women but his worst crime is what he did to river song

he took a very cool and interesting woman with an unexplored plotline that had limitless potential and turned her into another of his two-dimensional sexy-woman-who-could-shoot-you archetypes. her plotline also falls victim one of his repeated attempts to craft an exciting mystery with a plot twist which ended up being needlessly convoluted and somehow condescending almost, by neglecting to give river her own meaningful journey and centring her existence around creating puzzles for the doctor to solve

11 is moffats power fantasy character hes just the coolest guy in the universe whose super important who kisses every girl and every powerful person is after him but cuz hes so cool he gets out of it AND then deletes himself from their data so they don't know him but also somehow they still did and also they all say DOCTOR WHO? alot

god 11s era was so bad

don't ya just love it when you're really vibing to one of the most compelling character designs you've ever seen and your fun is completely ruined by the most 2010 sexist jokes/writing in the world?

watch hbomberguy’s sherlock is garbage and here’s why video again [link]

Wow, if I had a nickel for every time Steven Moffat made the doctor meet a kid version of a person they are going to snog/be romantically involved with I’d have 4 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it even happened.

Not to be 2017 about this but I’m just thinking about how BBC Shitlock adapted The Five Orange Pips and made the secret society a group of serial killing women’s rights activists when in the original story it was the KKK. They compared feminism to the fucking Klan.

Fuck Steven Moffat. Fuck Mark Gatiss.

I swear if Moffat’s new Doctor Who episode leads to a Moffat stan revival on this hellsite, I think I’m going to be sick.

Or worse, if it leads to Sherlock Series 5, I think I’ll just kill myself and be done with it.

me watching DW at any given moment: that's very pretty Moffat. please shut up

sometimes I'm scrolling and scrolling and I see Steven Moffat slander and I screech to a halt and backtrack

People who are surprised about how bad the time traveler's wife is? I mean, what did you expect? Steven Moffat is behind It.

Massively unpopular opinion. I don’t like river song. I don’t like the way she was written it felt like Steven moffats version of inserting feet into icarly. I don’t like that he married his niece. That’s nursty bro. I love Alex kingstons performance and interpretation of the character but to me the actual story of her character symbolic of the early 2010s strong female character archetype that was just a misogynistic portrait of a woman with a gun.

Danny pink was such a cool concept and i really liked his ending but like, did he and clara even get along? they argued more than they didn't, i feel like he could have been fleshed out a lot more. danny is at his best in what i think is a pretty bad episode, in the forest of the night, but here we see him as a teacher, responsible for his students and not even knowing about the doctor for some point in the beginning of this story, talking things through with clara and being a generally fun character to watch. on the other hand i think hes at his worst in a great episode, listen, where all he does is argue with then proceed to forgive clara for being insensitive, not to mention that he himself is rather annoying in this episode, the dialogue he and clara share over dinner feels off and not realistic, for how great this episode is that date scene really just holds it back in terms of characterization for both clara and danny, after that I'm not sure why they're even together