The Wolverine has gone back to calligraphy-inspired basics for the first poster of villain Silver Samurai. It’s not as good as this one, but it’s miles better than these. (Digital Spy)

Even though I don’t watch CBS’s Elementary, I am very excited about this casting. Actress Natalie Dormer, who plays Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, will have a guest-starring role on the Sherlock series as… 

Earlier this week we told you which television show was the most pirated of 2012, now it’s time to find out which film was. And the answer may surprise you. 

It can be rough when your show goes on hiatus. It can be especially rough when your show goes on hiatus after one of the most emotionally harrowing season finales you’ve ever seen, with nary a promise of when to return other than “sometime after Peter Jackson frees Martin Freeman from New Zealand.” And considering they’re going back to film a third Hobbit film, that probably isn’t anytime soon. BBC’s Sherlock series said they’d start filming the third season “sometime in 2013,” which could be anywhere from six months to a year and a half from now. In the meantime, we’re still chock-full of what we can only call “Reichenfeels,” and sometimes we just don’t know where to put all of them. To help ourselves (and you), we put together this list of six things you can do to distract yourself while we wait.

Since the show was first announced, Elementary–the upcoming CBS take on the Sherlock Holmes stories–has been under the watchful glare of the already-rabid (but often lovable) Sherlock Holmes fandom. Already drawing suspicion upon the initial announcement of the series on the grounds that it could be taken as yet another Americanized take on something already popular in Britain, the show drew even more passionate reactions when it announced that it would be casting Lucy Liu, a woman, in the role of John Watson, a traditionally male character. The creators and writers of the show are addressing the gender-swap at Comic-Con in San Diego, filling us in on the thinking that went into the decision, and letting us know the Sherlock-Watson relationship is all about friendship.

After the most recent installment of Pirates of the Caribbean underwhelmed, could Guy Ritchie be the one to make pirates awesome again? News is out that he’s set to direct an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson‘s classic swashbuckling novel Treasure Island. He’ll produce with partner Lionel Wigram, with whom he teamed for Sherlock Holmes and its recent sequel. Hmm, let’s see: these guys take a classic novel, add in kickass action sequences that feel modern but make total sense in a period movie, and then find a supremely charming star to take the lead. This has clearly worked once. And now — pirates. Yeah, I think it’s fair to be more than cautiously optimistic about this one.

To be more specific, as Sherlock Holmes would expect us to be, he’s now the most portrayed literary human character in film and television according to the Guinness Book of World Records, beating William Shakespeare’s Hamlet for the title. Hmm…I wonder how that happened…

Look, at this point I just feel sorry for Elementary. This Youtube preview has been up for about a day and has already garnered a 70% dislike rating, much of it, I suspect, from the weird parts of the BBC Sherlock fandom that have a sort of perceived need to defend… the world? their show? from another show that… almost certainly will have zero effect on it? Well, that said, it could also be from people who feel just on general principles that the show doesn’t measure up to Conan Doyle’s original “vision,” or even those who feel that a female Watson desecrates the characters of both Watson and Holmes, but if the Youtube comments comparing it to the original show and saying that Lucy Liu is a terrible Watson and that they’re just going to make her bang Holmes and then the show will be terrible (as if much of the Sherlock Holmes fandom wasn’t already about imagining a romance between the central characters) are any indication, Elementary‘s biggest problem so far is not that its first sneak peek (a tenuous basis to judge the full worth of a show to begin with) is middling, but that’s it’s being compared to one of the most tightly written shows on television right now.

You adored her Wonder Woman gown but it was her DC Ladies in Sweaters that originally got everyone talking. Well here’s my Womanthology artist Hanie Mohd’s last Sweater Superlady, Medusa from Marvel Comics. But don’t worry! She writes she’s only done, “At least till autumn comes around again.” Read on for all the other fabulous things we saw today. 

In keeping with the American tradition of ripping off good British things, CBS has announced that it is developing its own Sherlock Holmes series. It’s hoping to capitalize on the success of the Robert Downey, Jr. movie and claims to be a “modern take” on the classic detective story. Because there’s nothing like that on TV at the moment … except for that BBC show that’s exactly like it.