I agree with all of this. I really, really want to like this show (for Lucy Liu if nothing else, she's the first thing that's really sparked my interest in it at all) and there are some very interesting places they could go with it! And I'm not out and out opposed to shipping it (I don't know that the gender was changed to male the idea of a relationship between them more palatable so much as I suspect it was just that they had to put their own stamp on it somehow--beyond being a US version--and this is what they thought of) and CBS has some really good shows to its name.

It's just... does anyone really trust that this show is going to do any of those potentially good/interesting things? Does anyone believe that, with what we know of how they're changing the Watson character to be a disgraced surgeon rather than an honorated war veteran, this doesn't have a far higher chance of being awful than it does of being good? Sigh.