@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus Dude, I live in a city with a MASSIVE stray cat population, and let me tell you:

@avclub-6955b00909f6ca193225b774b892a906:disqus I mean, in general the show has done an amazing job seducing its audience into admiring, or at least wanting to figure out/be close to, Hannibal, just as Hannibal has seduced the other characters. Franklin was basically a heightened audience self-insert, which is why he…

@avclub-e61aa34d4fdadea6be28371410ba224a:disqus You know they deliberately over-fatten animals to make paté (out of liver), right? So given that he's into that, it seems likely he'd go for fatties.

I'm late, but: yes he has, and it's seemed clear to me from the beginning that the stag is Hannibal. It's Will's subconscious screaming at him that something is stalking him, something weird and monstrous—he knows there's something off about Hannibal, but he doesn't know that he knows. Also, though to me it's not…

I'm super late, but I want to say re: the Royal blood thing—I've been convinced from the start that the Royals can't be just normal humans. It doesn't make sense. How would they even have found out about the Wesen world, let alone managed to become its rulers? How do they ever know who they're dealing with/keep Wesen…

There were loads of "The Final Problem" callbacks in the episode, the most obvious being when he considered the long drop from the window. The brilliant thing about it is they found so many small and large ways to tie back to that story narratively or thematically without officially Adapting The Story, so they can…

How could they do that? They've already done it. She stalked, deceived, seduced, and emotionally abused him, and now she's revealed herself. Unless you mean post-reveal Hannibal/Graham?

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus For me it happened with Chicago (the movie, not the city). I know it's happened other times, but that one was the definitive for me because it was the first time I noticed it happening. Ooh, The Descendants, too. I don't have a name for it either.

Yup. I consciously use certain Britishisms either because they're less cumbersome ("flatmates" is way better than "apartment-mates" and doesn't bring up the potential confusion of "roommates") or just because they help avoid confusion from non-Americans (I'm around a lot of them).

He was referred to her by someone at the British Museum as their "top restorer," though. I suppose it's possible she had someone at the British Museum to make sure to misdirect him as well, but I think it's a data point in favor of actual developed alias.

I can't help but notice that people keep bringing the age concern up with Dormer's Moriarty but not with any equivalent male actors. Andrew Scott was 25 or 26 (I may be getting that slightly wrong, but certainly younger than 30) when he played Moriarty, and while I've seen many criticisms of his performance, I haven't…

I am honestly dying for abusive charismatic brilliant asshole BBC Sherlock to come up against no-nonsense no-bullshit CBS Watson. Just imagine it. Such beauty. She'd tear him apart, leave him to commiserate with her Holmes, and have a cuppa with BBC Watson while they talked shit about their Holmeses.

I was torn on it. On the one hand, before I knew it was a fakeout, I was into it—I felt, if you're going to center the series around his addiction, you have to go pretty hard on it once in a while (I phrase it this way only because I do think they've confronted the issue in general several times). On the other hand,…

@avclub-f730967b3505a7080b83c53ebc565f3f:disqus Oh, man, you should have seen what's been going on on tumblr for the past few months. It's all Sherlock/Cumberbatch fans losing their minds over how horrible the very idea is, or the same people saying that obviously CBS made Watson a woman because John and Sherlock…

From somebody who knows the canon well—so, I suppose I'm meant to assume that nobody who's a fan of Elementary knows the canon? I'll make sure to tell my twelve-year-old self to put down the stories, since apparently reading them will gain me nothing.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus no, it is fun, which is what almost makes it worse. Moffat has a strong habit/talent for writing female characters that start out strong and brilliant but end up being just one-dimensional cutouts of sexy/witty ladies who save the day or are saved. (See River Song, if…

"Is it weird to ship Holmes and Moriarty?" HAHAHHAHAHA YOU MEAN EVERYONE DOESN'T DO THAT? Seriously, I don't know how you could watch "The Reichenbach Fall" from the BBC version and NOT ship them.

Murdertrage!!! Adopting this term immediately.

"Even the most dense of guys would get the picture." I have to say, in my experience, whenever I've thought this, it's turned out to be wrong. And to be fair to the genders, I've been equally dense in my own right. Hormones are a hell of a drug.

I actually feel pretty good about Bell, given that he got a whole episode devoted to his backstory, though I'd like us to have gotten a little more continuity from that instead of making it such a standalone. I may be biased, though, because I really love the character and his chemistry with Holmes. I agree that…