Worse than all of that though: it would be an affront to Benedict Cumberbatch.
The negativity wasnt without cause.
It was bolstered by remake fatigue of the hasnt anyone got any original ideas?
variety, and fattened on a diet of past experience with tried-and-failed US conversions.
Its interesting, as they approached us a while back about remaking our show.
That wasnt the worst of it.
A new consensus was quickly reached.
The loudest anti-Elementarycomplaints took on a prophetic bent.
What then, happened?
How did the least popular TV idea sinceDont Scare the Harewin over its critics?
The short and annoying answer is that it didnt.
They just saw an ad, tuned in, and came back the following week.
Den of Geek and its ilk spoil us for the real world.
The very slightly longer answer as to howElementarysilenced its critics is that it didnt suck.
The pilot reviews (oursincluded) were mostly full of pleasant surprise.
It wasnt the dumbed-down humourless travesty predicted by many, but a nicely diverting forty-odd minutes of TV.
Crucially,Elementarycontinued not to suck.
By the time the mid-season finale arrived, the two were almost neck and neck.
How does it compare to the BBCSherlock?
Unfavourably perhaps, but then so do most things.
The use of canon differs greatly too.
Its simply not a case of comparing like with like.
Theyre new versions of the archetypes, and theres room for them all.
The thing is, it hasnt come to pass, and TV gods willing, it never will.
The best creations are robust enough, and special enough, to withstand any number of future interpretations.
Perhaps itll do the same for you.
