sophistory:

REAL TALK, I think if you watch Joan Watson in the preview/trailer for Elementary and what you see is:

• someone who’s weak and incompetent
• someone who’s just there to coo at Sherlock Holmes’ deductions
• someone who cannot have a strong, loyal relationship with Sherlock Holmes
• someone whose lack of military service means they are not brave or steady
• someone whose lost medical license makes them a failure and a disgrace
• someone who, instead of being a ‘strong, well-developed character’ like John
• is instead just a ‘petite Asian woman who allows herself to be pushed around’
• just Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick
• just Sherlock Holmes’ love interest
• just Sherlock Holmes’ paid nanny
• just a nag
• just eye-candy
• just audience appeasement
• etc. etc. et fucking cetera

then I’m pretty sure that says a hell of a lot more about you than it does about the show.