I really loved Sherlock Holmes and I'm going to pick up the DVD soon. It's such a fun movie and I've read some great stories for it. The only thing that bothers me is that many fans seem so determined to have Holmes and Watson together that they write poor Mary as a controlling shrew or even as outright evil.

Never mind that she's a canon character, it just annoys me because a good writer would find some way to have the two of them together without degenerating one of the few female characters. I don't even care about pairings as long as the story is interesting but I'm losing interest in reading fanfics that take that route.