I personally feel like it's like covering a song - if somebody steals a joke and does it BETTER then the original person and I find it hilarious, more power to them.

^ This. I think Cumberbatch/Freeman work perfectly well for a 3-story-season type deal, where as JLM's more "likeable" Sherlock works for the long term. It's also nice to see him understand people and give a shit.

I don't think she's a "hallucination" as much as a visual representation of those memories. The house is decrepid and deserted - but Moriarty laid out all the paintings, which Sherlock recognized. He was flooded with memory and stimuli, and that's why he's "seeing" her - her memory is so vivid.

I've read the script. It's basically an arthouse/existentialist/2001 A Space Odyssey tier version of Pokemon.

Hits Netflix/Comcast VOD/Amazon May 6th I believe.

For the record, Carruth has stated this isn't a puzzle movie. There are things in there you can figure out, but it's not the point. It's much more lyrical.

To me, this one of the most interesting aspects of the show.

I've made it to 8. What I'm saying is, it's not like we really get alot of character development in the traditional sense. It seems like I shouldn't care about him at all, and especially since he's a terrible person. But he's just so much damn fun to watch.

The scene with the homeless man gave me chills.

Moments like the end of the the Fred sketch make me await the point in Portlandia's serialized plots where they eventually decide to go for some kind of emotional punch or moment. To me, those tend to be the most effective, because they're in a world that generally doesn't deal with such things.

In "M," when Watson and Holmes have the exchange over Joan saying she asked his father about staying longer, it almost looks as though he's reading her and can tell she's lying when she says he agrees.

So we can all agree that apartment porn guy is Moriarty right? What a tweest.

I wonder if the title is a sly nod to The Adventure of the Red-Headed League

I could sort of tell they were using Clyde to expose Sherlock's soft interior. And also to get the fanbase to gush.

Clyde confirmed for boosting the show's quality by 200%

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I genuinely love that the aliens, Anne Frank, Nazis, zombies, demons, angels, Murder Santas - were all just catalysts to get the characters to the end of their arc, which was essentially "Having been through something."

I was absolutely floored tonight by his subtleties. When Moran was trying to explain he didn't kill Irene as Sherlock was bent over the table - the twitching on his face is flawless. And his expressionless tears on the couch were also great.

It gives Sherlock a backstory that is a nod to the original canon (more or less), and also gives them an out later if things get boring, because being the only woman who ever beat Holmes, they can have her have faked her death for some sort of nefarious purpose.

As a BBC Sherlock fan (Who has just caught up in the past two days out of a need for a Holmes fix) I have to say, I'm really pleasantly surprised with Elementary. It's really avoided doing everything I thought "American version of the popular modernized Sherlock Holmes idea, but with a female Watson!" would do wrong.