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Dear Moffat & Co.,

Acting like classless pricks isn’t going to stop me from bootlegging your show because, well, I’m bootlegging it (streaming, anyway). I like to think of a narrative as an entity that is, to some degree, separate from its creator(s); that’s part of what’s great about being a reader/viewer: the lush multiplicity of varying interpretations.

Still, I do wish you would keep your mouths shut when you feel something childish and rude coming on, or at least trash-talk privately with your mates like normal people. Meanwhile, I can’t discern which of you even bothered to watch Elementary, but— aside from the obvious fact that you did not invent Sherlock Holmes, as well as the fact that the only thing the two adaptations have in common is the time period, while every other facet and relationship differs— in case you’re wondering, Elementary is great. Lucy Liu and Johnny Lee Miller are both fabulous and their relationship is wonderfully drawn. And they manage it all without vaguely (or explicitly, if we’re talking Scandal in Belgravia) sexist/racist/heteronormative plotlines. So eat your heart out and choke on it, thanks.

Now, perhaps you haven’t seen either or one of the shows. Given that they’re both adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in the current time period, what possible differences could there be on a fundamental level, you might ask? Here are ten significant ones, obvious and not-so-obvious as the case may be:

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fairytaledove:

Wow, even in mouse form Sherlock doesn’t like Watson looking at women.