John is more of a puppy dog/gun for hire/exasperated top.

Steven Furst?!

I hate myself for recognizing him. *shudder*

What's unfair about stating that differences in opinion can sometimes be so firmly held that the holders of said opinions seem to exist in two different realities? Nowhere did I levy an objective insult towards Elementary; I only state that in the subjective reality I inhabit, it is not "better" - nor do I claim that…

no.

"The Bookworms". OK, I am not his target audience, clearly.

I think the disembodied head, with the grin.

No, you fool, from the SHOW

I have loved this whole season a great deal and believe it holds together incredibly well, and illuminates the characters and their world in new and interesting-to-the-point-of-upsetting ways. This episode in particular affected me emotionally in ways I didn't even realize were happening until the episode was over -…

Ain't that always the way with them. John often looks like a doormat. At other times he looks like a BAMF lion who will stand up to bullies and evil and who will not back down from what he believes is right. Can they simultaneously be true?

But the show is called "Sherlock", not "Sherlock Holmes." Perhaps that was deliberate.

People are stupid; the show uses that as a tactic.

It happens. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's the status quo; it's just that it's happened this time (and maybe a few times in the past). But perhaps more than a few times in the past, Sherlock called Lestrade and was in genuine extreme danger, and that is why Lestrade responds so unthinkingly. Is this fanwank?…

What makes Irene lodge in the mind of Sherlock Holmes is that SHE WINS. First in merely verbal jousting, and then in getting away with what she wants to do. That, and nothing else; her attractiveness, which is on a level that even Sherlock can't help but notice, is not something that would make him remember her. That…

A lighter tone, perhaps. And yes, very silly, but the silliness is welcome - and it was always there.

Not necessarily. Part of the AVC's critical editorial voice is its subjectivity. It certainly isn't quite as fun to read reviews by critics whose opinions don't align with those held by oneself, but that does not negate the review's right to exist, nor the critic to have the job of reviewing that property. (In some…

Because Moriarty made the critical error in believing that Molly did not matter to Sherlock - as is acknowledged multiple times in both "Reichenbach" and "Hearse".

Clea DuVall? SOLD!

Aw, don't get hung up about it.

And Michael fucking Hutchence, at maximum hotness.