OK, maybe not glaring at Bruce, since I saw him in Scarlet Pimpernel playing EXACTLY the same guy as under the name of the Prince of Wales so it's probably not malice aforethought in his case, but whoever insert expletive cast him. And also whoever wrote the scripts with the clear intent of making him look more like a fumbleskulled senile ex-army-and-that-recently-my-EYE twirp thirty years older than Holmes when if anything Holmes was the older of the two. Talk about goddamn character assassination.
I'm sorry, but he makes me really angry; I feel strongly about this. Watson was a really good character and not only a passable but an excellent doctor for his time as well as a quick and fit man with good crisis/combat reflexes, if his style was more common and stolid than Holmes's upper-class and martial-arts methods, and just who you wanted to have on hand for either a physical or a medical combat, even if he wasn't any good at information gathering. Anyone who reads the stories and believes his self-depreciation--or, for that matter, his Holmes-mocking, as with the bit about him not having a sense of humor--is not paying attention. I cannot abide those early characterizations that cast him as a fool; Holmes did not keep him around out of pity, or even solely as a wall to bounce ideas off. I can enjoy a story that doesn't stick to canon, but there's a difference between AU and grossly OOC.