The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction problems led him to a rehab center in New York City.
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you know, after looking at this i see no problems with it. if its a good show its a good show.
Maybe i’m weird, but I ship the BBC John and Sherlock, but this just strikes me as odd!
I thought about that too, but I don’t know how much a female!Watson can bring something new to the table, if we’re not...
This whole “CBS castung Sherlock” has got me so conflicted and I feel like it could be sort of good if they did it right...
My guess is that genderbending a well-known character is a way of bringing something new to the table, especially for a...
I’m willing to give it a shot, but I wish that if they’re going that way, they would have made Sherlock a woman too....
yes yes a thousand times yes
i feel like if you go with bbc’s version of sherlock holmes (sherlock), lucy liu is better for sherlock, but if you go...
Assuming that doesn’t make you a jerk, it just makes you look stupid. You know what they say about assumptions. I think...