Fall TV: Elementary

   Yay Elementary doesn't stink! Maybe it's the strength of the adaptation, maybe it's the strength of the character, who knows? That's one of Holmes's greatest draws: almost every other character that he runs into acts as a foil for him. Different foils for different facets; he's that complex a character. Moriarty and Mycroft on whether to use intellect to address the root of crime or its effects, or whether to use it to instigate chaos itself. Intelligence and sanity versus insanity, Mycroft on one extreme, Moriarty on the other, Sherlock somewhere in between. With Watson as his anchor. Watson, Holmes's closest friend. Moriarty hasn't turned up yet (he always does, like a bad penny... farthing?) or at least not within the first three episodes like he did in the two other more memorable recent adaptions (and maybe the not-so-memorable one as well, if anyone even saw that one) and in fact may be fictitious even in the original stories (the guy shows up out of nowhere, Holmes claiming jolly evil conspiracies all the way, and then serves to dispatch the character between the time Doyle got sick of Holmes and the time he realized that he was a money-making machine) but then again we haven't met Mycroft yet either, and maybe Lestrade exists in this universe too. Or maybe they're going the Gene Wilder route, with "Sigerson" instead of Mycroft (aarrgh!)? The "Moriarty-was-a-patsy" thing deserves justice one of these days, I'm telling you...