And how many people need to keep this secret? The people who collect and process the cadavers, get together luggage and background stories, fake documents, histories and online footprints. Then you have to get them all onto the plane.

But genetic tests on the victims will prove that they are not related. How common do you think it is to have a plane-load of people, none of whom are related?

I actually understand the historical perspective, my issue is that the plan does not work.

The background stories are hastily improvised because they have to be, the time-scale of response cannot be large because terrorists don't plan exactly which aircraft they're going to blow out of the sky years in advance. You have to get nice fresh corpses so you have to use people who have died recently and you have…

Inexplicable. To me, Sherlock has the really annoying central character with no saving graces. For you it's the other way around. That's a matter of taste I guess, but the other shoe falls in the form of the stories. For me the stories in Sherlock are just dumb. When you finally find out what's going on it's…

I will ask this question again. And I will keep asking it until someone produces a satisfactory answer. How is Mycroft's plane-full-of-dead-people not one of the single stupidest ideas ever penned? And then you have the temerity to call Elementary dumbed down, Sherlock's plotlines stray well and truly into the idiotic.

I think the conversation has drifted. The issue is not gay jokes, it is gay jokes as employed by a show that undermines the concept of what it is to be gay. We will introduce a lesbian character who it turns out was only a lesbian because she hadn't met the hero. That is profoundly insulting. It's also a huge double…

A direct personal attack seems inappropriate, I found the Sherlock-converts-Irene-from-lesbianism thread to be pretty weak. If I were a lesbian I would I think be much more offended by it. Sherlock's characterisation of LGBT themes is shallow, something they use for a giggle here or a laugh there but not something…

A lot of effort was put into training sociopaths to empathise so they wouldn't kill or torture people. The result of this effort was eventually a recognition that the training was counterproductive. The sociopaths were learning how to recognise, understand, and better manipulate the emotional states of others. Skills…

I am not a member of the LGBTI community, I am a middle-aged caucasian male. If members of other races cultures creeds or communities express opinions about how media presents/portrays/impacts them those opinions carry the additional weight of first hand experience that I cannot bring. And it is of value to me to hear…

I seriously want someone to try to defend this plane full of dead people plot of Mycroft's. Everyone goes on about how great Sherlock is and then when asked about the stories they just clam up. The stories are just flat out silly to the point where I don't care how good the dialogue might be. The slack I grant Conan…

Not as smart? So, putting 300 or so stolen corpses in a plane with fake IDs and hastily improvised back stories is totally going to withstand the storm of media and investigative scrutiny that accompany a blown up plane? Sherlock is silly.

Paul Erdos did not have good social skills. He was exasperating and frustrating and in many instances an inconvenience to those he was visiting, many of whom put up with him rather than throw him out on the street out of social compulsion not because he was such a great raconteur. Seriously, you've made an assertion…

I have read the collected Sherlock Holmes works regularly since I was 12 and I much prefer Elementary. The plots in Sherlock are monumentally silly. This is often a feature of the original stories, but not one that I think should be enshrined.

In fact Zack says the opposite. In particular he says that the plots are too weak to sustain a ninety minute show, he's being polite quite frankly the Sherlock plots are too weak to support a music video. Mycroft's plan to blow up a plane load of corpses is staggeringly stupid and impractical. You really think noone…

Maybe so, and there it worked. The head of SIS should not be using Fringe as source material for his counter-terrorism program.

Paul Erdos, one of the premier mathematicians of the twentieth century was unable to open a carton of juice without a stake knife. He was a drug dependant itinerant incapable of supporting or caring for himself. I know what the top percentile behave like and your blithe generalisation that anyone with high…

Actually, you suggested I had my head up an asshole whose identity was undetermined but makes my ability to type all the more impressive.

How can you criticise Elementary when Sherlock has plane-loads-of-corpses? Seriously?

No, this article is saying: The Sherlock plots are too weak to carry the show in the absence of decent characterisation. To emphasise this point let me ask: can you seriously tell me that the plane-load-of-dead-people isn't one of the single stupidest premises for a story you have ever heard?