It's actually pretty obvious and annoying.

Hate to burst your bubble, but they shot the solution scene while shooting the finale, and the solution is pretty obvious. The only question is to what extent Moriarty was involved in setting it up, since some of the components are clues he gave Sherlock.

My comments display is all fucked up, so I'm assuming you're talking about the gay agenda thing.

@avclub-b89fc71ee73d1d6ec09693a1844bf3a2:disqus There is literally nothing in the article to indicate that it was meant as what Moffat's characters would say. If the only thing is, as you say, Moffat defending himself after the fact… I don't really see any reason to give him the benefit of the doubt.

@avclub-eb4d4948a4c9d8a3066cdf48eecbdade:disqus Continually ceding ground, in this case by suggesting that having a gay/queer agenda is an innately bad thing, is just silly. Stop being silly.

It might have negative connotations, but in this case it's entirely accurate.

I don't think it is. I wouldn't have minded except Rusty did it in a pretty cackhanded and clumsy way. woman mentioning her same-sex spouse in midnight? Good. Cyborg Roy Cohn in Voyage of the Damned? Bad.

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@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus Actually it was. It wasn't a complete overhaul but they changed some elements because it was a pain to shoot in. For example they dulled a lot of the metal so it wouldn't show reflections, they modified the platform so that it would be easier to pull chunks of it out to…

It's from a New Scotsman interview about Who and Coupling. Moffat said it, even if his surrogate on Coupling expressed the same view.

No odder than seeing Maxil as the Doctor. Or Princess Astra as Romana. Or y'know, the guy who played both the merchant from Fires of Pompeii and Frobisher in Torchwood.

Egad! Sad Dad!

On the other hand, the set has been remodeled every year since Moffat took over. Although that had more to do with the original set needing buckets of work done to make shooting in it not an atrocious slog.

Basically the format was cribbed from those "I love the Seventies" style clipshows, hence unrelated celebrities (Tarbuck and Hound are both mid-level comedians and presenters who do the panel show circuit).

Well, he actually thought that at the time, and has since displayed some woefully regressive gender politics. And he bullied the shit out of Mad Larry one time in the nineties.

I'm just gonna leave this here
"There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women
are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s
the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to
avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting
for husbands.…

Because Moffat is incredibly sexist and having him write a female protagonist would be a huge mistake.

There's some interesting academic work about how the show's become less progressive since Moffat took the reigns, specifically in terms of queer and minority representation.

No, he had a specific social agenda that involved systematically foregrounding gay characters or characters meant to stand for gays because he had an ideological belief that doing so would lead to a net positive social effect. It's a gay agenda. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, although it was often handled in a very…

Olivia Colman would be the best doctor ever.