MarchHare:

Greetings from Canada!! I hope this finds you and yours well.

My name is Indy, and I'm sorry that everyone is ignoring you. Benedict said it best: "There's room for everybody." Man, why didn't they sign this guy up for the diplomatic corps?

They've copied everything that makes Cumberbatch's Sherlock Sherlock--everything from the dark curly hair all the way down to the great coat and scarf. This show has been a sore topic with me every since I first heard tell of it. I've always said it's a slap in the face to the likes of Benedict, Martin and the rest of the cast and crew of OUR show and the hard hard work they do to make that show work.

For openers, they don't all that much about the detective named Holmes. If you've ever read any of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle books, you'll notice that not once has Sherlock ever said, "Elementary" or "Elementary, my dear Watson." That's sheer stupidity.

Secondly, I feel that the back story for Freeman's Watson holds up a far sight better than the one for the American Watson. Dr. John Hamish Watson was never a disgraced surgeon who had his licence taken from him. There is also the fact that Sir Arthur has written John Watson as a MAN, not a woman, given the fact that all his Holmes stories were set in the Victorian Era--not a great time for women back then.

It also been suggested to me that the only reason for the existence of this travesty is that Johnny Lee Miller (the American Sherlock) is in this this thing is because he and Benedict were both in the West End production of Frankenstein, with each actor trading off between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature.

Let's face, March Hare, the last good idea CBS had was updating Hawaii Five-0 which, I hope, goes into a third season and wipes out this mess.

I'm telling ya, it's a sorry state of affairs in television when CBS and other TV networks have to steal ideas and not come up with something of their own.

Besides, we KNOW who the "real" Sherlock and Watson are!


Sincerely yours always,


Indy.