This feels very very apt
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-better-ve ... -tired-of/While I still love Sherlock, I'm now a bigger fan of Elementary. For one, the former has like 10 episodes out, in contrast to the latter's 100+. It's not a question of mere quantity, though. Because the adventures of Barcelona Cuckooclock come out so infrequently, it feels like each episode has to be bigger, darker, and more complex than the last one. The first episode was about a series of mass poisonings. The third one is about blackmailers putting people in explosive vests. The last one will probably be about Bastardneck Crumbcake fighting Satan in the center of the earth.
Elementary, on the other hand, can take its time and focus on smaller cases like home invasions, overdoses, hit-and-runs ...
What it doesn't have, though, is a romantic relationship between Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu). They are colleagues who respect each other, and nothing else. In fact, over the course of the show, Watson grows into a full-fledged detective whom Holmes greatly admires, and it's inspiring to see such character development in a story as done to death as Sherlock Holmes.
But that doesn't mean Elementary disregards the canon completely. CBS's Sherlock actually works closely with the police and occasionally expresses his respect for the good work they do, and vice versa, just like in the books. This is a welcome improvement on Sherlock, where Detective Inspector Lestrade has been turned into idiotic comic relief who by now would do anything Bikestand Cocoapuffs told him.