...I have to say, though, after reading your essay, I think the guy needs a "Not My Fandom, Still Love Ya" icon more than he needs to be engaging in media-based self-analysis (and kerfuffling).

I dunno, maybe one should engage in a lot of soul-searching when one doesn't like a television show, but my own inclination would be to admit that I don't like it even though my friends do and get on with my life. But if I waited for my friends to watch TV with me, or tried to watch what they're watching, I would never watch anything. *shrug*

Yeah, see, one of the things I've learned from therapy, over the years, is that you're better off doing it in private than in public.

See, we quite liked the first and third eps, mostly because it's a modern adaptation in which Holmes is as much of a dysfunctional asshole as he is in canon. But I like mystery stories a lot -- I just can't watch American ones because of the gore, so I watch hours and hours of English ones.