All I can think about is that one episode of Iron Man: Armored Adventures now.

I've been certain she was alive for ages, but when Douglas said "I didn't kill her. I could tell you why she had to die", that sealed it. When he said "she had to die," I took it to mean not "why she was killed" but rather "why she disappeared," or "why she had to be thought dead."

"serial killer analyst" I'm pretty sure means "analyst of serial killers", not "analyst who was a serial killer". I haven't found any references to his being a killer himself anywhere, but maybe I'm just missing something.

Oh! I didn't realize that was a canon reference! I went straight to John E. Douglas, serial killer profiler extraordinaire, as I thought it was a neat callback to his ability to pick a serial killer out of the crowd. I'm going to choose to believe it was a double reference.

The reference is tiny. In the story, Watson mentions a box where he keeps some unfinished notes on Sherlock's cases, and mentions "the problem of Jams Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world." I believe Phillimore was the name of the guy who died by…

I agree—I really loved John Douglas, and I wish he'd gotten more time, maybe by reappearing in another episode.

@avclub-804bfd285116c91c935176b2b199894d:disqus The thing is, if he was driven solely by money, what was the sedition about?

I don't think it's resentful. I think it loves Finch, whatever "love" means for the Machine. Not to say that the two things are mutually exclusive, but I don't think it would wish to harm him. On a more pragmatic basis, I also think it's pretty committed to its objective, and Finch—and those it's identified as his…

I mean: "I don't like killing people, but I will if I need to" is basically John Reese's whole M.O. The only difference between her and the vast majority of characters in all current American action drama is the weird cheerful humor she brings to what she does, and the camera not being on her side.

I agree that she was sincere in that scene, and moreover, I felt pretty affected by it. The poor Machine, reprinting its brain every night and still so faithful to its dad.

She hit him in the face with a football. If that's not friendship, I don't know what is.

I was over the MOON about the chair placement, because it's also a classic setup for psychoanalysis—the more commonly shown version where the patient faces the analyst is psychotherapy, or sometimes psychodynamic therapy. Obviously psychoanalysis is not what was happening in the scene, but I got all excited anyway.…

I agree it would have been nice to see some greater payoff on Sherlock's obvious revulsion when the blackmailing scheme was first explained to him, but there are only so many minutes in…42 minutes.

I had a lot of issues with this because in the original story, the person who kills Milverton is one of his blackmail victims. (Also, the blackmailees are blackmailed directly, not through family, and it's not rape but "indiscretion," but I can accept the last one as a times changing sort of thing.) I certainly don't…

To me, the whole notion of "getting over yourself" was about more than just not being selfish, though Alfredo may have only meant that. The thing Sherlock was really struggling with here was the relapse, and more importantly the lack of control it represented. That lack of control is not something he's used to. He…

I don't know if it was supposed to air last week, but I know a lot of people failed to realize that, you know, the breaking news broadcast was going to preempt their show's airing and got pretty confused. Maybe that had something to do with it?

Honestly, it's been driving me NUTS how completely Reese and Finch dismiss any and all of Fusco's problems. It makes sense to me, somewhat surprisingly, that Fusco sticks with them anyway—blackmail aside, he seems very invested in the getting to be a good guy thing—but even if they hate him and don't give a shit what…

@avclub-f58c9b865d50d42710c791a720274808:disqus It's not the same situation at all, though. Reese was afraid that the doctor in Cura Te Ipsum would ruin her future and her life. This guy had no future to ruin. Plus, the overall arc of Reese and Doctor whatsisname's journey was backward-looking, not forward—it was…

@E.Buzz Miller I've been of the opinion that he's never really had an identity. He's defined himself by how other people see him (Kingslayer, epic swordsman) and by his devotion to his sister, never in terms of a separate self. One of the reasons I've loved his road trip with Brienne so much is that whether he…

I'm confident we're not going to get an Inspirational Montage of him learning to fight with his left hand, so I think I'm fine with whatever the fuck they do to avoid him being boringly killed off too soon.