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I was going to just ignore CBS's new, unique, exciting, original, honestly-not-inspired-by-a-certain-BBC-programme-what-do-you-mean-we-cast-someone-who-doubles-roles-with-your-star updated and Americanised adaption of Sherlock Holmes. Then I heard that they were genderswapping Watson and had cast Lucy Liu, and I thought, actually, that could be really good; I'd have preferred girl!Sherlock if they were going that route, in order to avoid the 'wacky male genius grounded by a woman's common sense' angle, but it could still work very well and might be worth a look, and a female Army medic would be something new and different.

Then I heard that they were going to have her be a stuck off surgeon, and unless it turns out that the plot will involve her being wrongfully struck off, I must say that's not an iteration of Watson, who ought to be, despite all the possibilities for darkness and dubious attraction to risk, a fundamentally decent (and not, in fact, stupid) human being, that I'm particularly interested in seeing.

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Fortunately this should be one of those cases where we'll get plenty of advance warning whether the result is a mad success or a mess. I have to say, the casting of Lucy Liu was one ray of hope in a rather bleak picture but the "struck off surgeon" part is unfortunate even if "clearing her name" is the plot driver because it has the potential to put even more potential inequality into the relationship than Holmes/Watson has necessarily (see Rathbone/Bruce) to say nothing of genderswapped Watson.

A female Sherlock, now that I would like to see.