Agreed, wholeheartedly. When Liv Tyler saw the two GR "watchers" for the first time (walking out of fiance's house to a waiting cab) there was this amazing static effect that kind of segued into a song - it so perfectly conveyed a feeling of frustration boiling up inside her.
The entire design of the…

A. I got the impression that the murder/fossil smashing was interupted. Possibly by Sherlock and Joan? When they walked up to the building, the door was ajar.
B. Protecting textbook sales was a minor element of the bad guy's motive. He was worried that the fossil would disprove the theory upon which his entire career…

Read my reply to the OP a few spots up. "It always feels so right," is exactly how I feel about that element (heh) of Elementary.

Re: Sherlock's Adventures in Sponsorship
As a person who has gone through the addiction/recovery thing myself, I am blown away with the way Elementary has dealt with the topic. A junkie with a newly kicked habit has to make huge changes in the way they relate to the world; I've literally never seen an actor do what…

You know, I think that's a big part of what makes "Midnight" such a good story. That tight structure makes it a helluvah lot easier to avoid the grandiose, hand-wavy crap that has plagued a lot of the most recent Who.
Okay, maybe not easier. But when you narrow the focus of a story, the author is forced to be a bit…

Are we not counting "Midnight" for some reason?
It really is a textbook definition bottle episode. Except for a narrative framing scene (or two? I don't recall if we end the hour by checking back in with Donna) the entire story takes place trapped inside a broken down space bus.