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Sherlock isn’t even Sherlock to me. When I say Sherlock I am talking about Elementary (2012-2019)

Yes.

does anybody on this godforsaken hellsite watch elementary??? the sherlock one!????

PLEASE ANYONE???

I have the strongest sense of deja vu

-Sherlock Holmes

I just rewatched the episode of elementary where Joan does her first case herself, when she breaks into that guys car boot bc she thinks his wife is in there but she isn’t, and then she gets arrested.

Sherlocks face when he visits her after posting her bail… I got butterflies he looks so damn proudddd I almost squealed then I remembered I’m 23 years old.

I love this show sm

HE NAMED A BEE AFTER HER!! SOMEONE SEDATE ME

Yo is elementary tumblr still a thing??? Im hyperfixating on it again

Have some art :)

Realised I couldnt draw Joan like, at all, decided to change that because she beautiful and she deserves better

And I did better! Not perfect, you mind, but good enough I suppose.

Rewatched no lack of void, turned to quick art trying to direct all those feelings somewhere else because that ending BREAKS me

And, of course, drew the blorbo himself a few times 🫶

Sometimes a bit more successfully.. ish...

And sometimes neither true to my style nor to sherlock...

Too lazy to devide this post, so yall get everything at once

CBS’ Elementary is everything to me.

Between the “i made you breakfast” and the “i’ll see you at home” and the “when was the last time you slept?” and the “i know you didn’t eat so i brought you your leftovers” and clyde going from “pet tortoise” to “our pet tortoise” and the “we’re two people who love each other” …

They are individuals in their own right and yet depend on each other so deeply, but it’s not co-dependency, they actively choose each other everyday all the time. They are two halves of a whole but they are not incomplete as individuals, rather they lift each other up. It’s so nice to see a holmes/watson relationship that’s so unproblematic and wholesome and loving. I love this adaptation. I just love them.

Can we talk about Elementary for a moment? Because this show is so fucking amazing I can’t. The premise is questionable, to say the least. „We’re gonna make a Sherlock Holmes adaption. But what if John is a woman called Joan and what if she is American? Oh and the whole thing is set in New York.“

Best start for a horrible American washed gender swap romance adaption but nothing could be further from the truth. Usually when the gender of a character is changed from canon it is to push some strange heteronormative romance sub plot but NO not Elementary.

The PLATONIC relationship between Joan and Sherlock is so amazingly done. It is the best portrayal of a QPR (queerplatonic relationship) I have ever seen in media. And even if we don’t take qprs into account we see a rich, deep, trusting friendship full of so much love. Elementary had the guts to use the word love in a platonic way, something other Sherlock Holmes adaptions (I’m looking at you BBC) never dared to do. And this in a show where Holmes and Watson are opposite genders, so the association with romance is done even quicker. Meanwhile, we watch Watson struggle with traditional dating and amatonormativity until she finally finds happiness in her platonic partnership with Sherlock and later as a single mum.

Elementary is also the only adaption I’ve seen that really explores Holmes's addiction. Usually, even in ACD canon, his drug addiction is treated as some personality quirk. An annoying habit but nothing more. But that is not how addiction works. Especially not with hard drugs like morphine and cocaine if we look at Canon or heroin in case of BBC and Elementary. Elementary puts great focus on Sherlock's long, presumably lifelong struggle with addiction and the great strength and effort it takes for him to stay clean. It emphasizes his need for a stable support system and doesn’t downplay addiction like a lot of Sherlock Holmes adaptions do. This is amazing.

Another great thing is the casualness of how queer people are incorporated into the story. They are just there. Their queerness isn’t the focus of their story, it is just part of who they are. Mrs. Hutson is trans but the focus is on the many influential men she has had affairs with. Victims are queer. Suspects are queer. Police are queer. Queer people just exist in this show without making it a big deal.

Even tho it isn't a perfect ACD Holmes adaption especially if we look at Sherlock's character I love this show so much.