Edward Hardwicke/Dr. Watson

I have to totally disagree with the reviewer that did not care for Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. Have you ever read any of the stories by Conan Doyle??? Somebody, somewhere, got the idea to have Watson as a bumbler to Holmes' great detective work. But Hardwicke plays him much closer to the character that Conan Doyle wrote. Watson was not an idiot. He was, after all, a medical doctor, who possessed invaluable knowledge of his profession in general, and imparticular to those illnesses from India, and to the injuries from the service. He had been a regimental doctor in the British army in India after all!! With Brett playing Holmes as he did, and we all seem to agree that he was spot on, why would his Sherlock Holmes have bothered to hang out with a bumbling idiot who called himself a doctor??? Well, the answer is simple. He would not have. Doctor Watson recorded the cases that Holmes took on too, so he must have been a pretty good writer, as well as a doctor. Holmes took him with him on all those cases, and asked plenty of him in those stories. "Bring your revolver, will you?", came up plenty of times. Why? Because Watson had a service revolver, and knew how to use it. Hardwicke was the first and only real Watson that we ever saw. Hardwicke played Watson as a man who was no amateur in his own right. Yes, he tried to learn from Holmes, because of his brilliant detective work. But Holmes RELIED on Watson. Depended on him. And when it came time to get off of the morphia, it was Watson who knew what to do to help him. And Watson never was an addict. Edward Hardwicke played Watson JUST RIGHT!!!