Elementary was so big brained for how everything is about friendship and how far you'll go for your friends. Its literally just 7 seasons of two people who love each other so much they've ascended beyond friendship all together. There's literally no other way to describe them than "two people who love each other". How fucking awesome of them

Sherlock and Joan (elementary) are THE queerplatonic ship of all time they complete each other they cannot function without each other they would die for each other the idea of sleeping together is utterly DISGUSTING to them but they do want to climb into each other's skulls and live there forever

Lucy Liu as Joan Watson in ELEMENTARY (2012—2019)

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Lucy Liu as Joan Watson in ELEMENTARY (2012—2019)

One of the major ways Elementary stands out from other Holmes adaptations to me is how they wrote Watson. Like it would've been so easy to write her like any other Watson, brilliant, yes, undoubtedly, but forever attached to Sherlock. Watson is there because Sherlock wills it so, because Sherlock needs a rock and because Sherlock Holmes is a man forever in need of a partner. Usually.

But they broke that. They said this is Dr Joan Watson, and she is incandescent and ruthless. She's a surgeon and there's an episode where Sherlock says surgeons have a healthy dose of god complex and you think sure buddy and then Joan threatens Moriarty in the middle of a restaurant and you go, huh. She learns to pick pockets and watches out of boredom. She changed careers over and over again till she found the one that fit. She became a detective and could and would absolutely kill a man and vouch for someone killing a man because it's Sherlock and she loves him very much. She's a partner, in the very literal sense. She kept track of murders as a teenager. She enchanted the most dangerous woman on the planet and EARNED her protection. She's a cancer survivor. She threatens gangs and online hacker conglomerates in free time. She's a mother. She's half of two people who love each other very much. She moved across oceans for him and she would do it again.

I was dying, and no one could see it but you. You saved my life, Joan.

remember elementary and how it was a million times better than bbc sherlock and how they had a platonic and lovely friendship between a man and a woman and how moriarty was the plot twist of all plot twists and how it showed people dealing with addiction in such a humane way and how there was no moffat misogyny. also sherlock named a new bee species after watson because he loved her.