We're all Watsons - watching Sherlock Holmes

I only watched it for an hour, and I hadn't seen either of the first 2 seasons, but I think that was enough for me re the British series Sherlock. Yes, I do appreciate the imaginative attempt to re-envision SH as a 21st-century figure - taking on international terrorists, avidly pursuing crowd sourcing and text messages as sources for clues and information, to site just two examples, and some of the British humor rings true and funny, and Benedict Cumberbatch has the part down perfectly as a strange mixture of cool and savoir fair with a complete insensitivity, even unawareness, of human emotions - he's a genius and somewhere on autism spectrum. I also very much liked some of the graphics and design - how they show SH's deductive reasoning as scattered textual info across the screen. All that said, you have to have an extremely high tolerance for plot absurdities to care for the series; unlike Conan Doyle's SH who is reserved and deliberative, this SH is a genetic cross with James Bond et al, and goes careening across London on a motorbike, endures a savage beating by Russian captors, and so on. I can take the comic-book heroism, but the even bigger problem for me is that he "solves" the mysteries he comes across - many, during the single episode I saw - almost instantly, as if by magic, rather than wrestling with information and deduction. Nothing keeps us thinking, trying to keep up with Holmes or even get ahead of him. We're just plain dazzled by the speed of his intuitions - we're all Watsons here - but it's not that Holmes is so great, it's that the screenwriters are superabundant. A little more verisimilitude would go a long way.