@avclub-cdef27381eb66efd223f0ea7572024b4:disqus I really think they wussed out not showing the hero of the show succumb to drugs. The original SH was a user, if not an addict, and I thought it would've fit the character. In the stories he used when there wasn't any work coming in and his mind was unoccupied, and I was…

The canon is definitive about Holmes's appearance; very tall, very thin, aquiline nose (whatever the fuck that is), dome-like forehead IIRC, and Paget's illustrations followed that brief. Rathbone brought the theatricality and the patrician vibe. Brett brought all that, plus the neuroses, and RDjr brought the…

@avclub-5354ae126495667a24e77e66cc463276:disqus humbly disagree. Moriarty was never overused in the canon. In fact, it seems ACD didn't realise what an iconic character he'd created. In the hands of a different author Moriarty could've been a wonderful recurring character, but ACD didn't really give a shit about…

Wasn't she the first to be cast? Or at least she was cast before JLM? I think the series was always intended to be Watson-centric in some way. I guess the route they've taken is Mulder-Scully. TBH I don't know how the characters were able to keep their hands off each other in the final scene, unless it was the choice…

Throughout the series there've been some noticeable examples of our eponymous protagonist using American English which I explained away by telling myself that the character was fitting in and relishing using a new vocabulary. Alas, I can no longer lie to myself when he employed the term "spelunkers" (two years prior…

Our moms say we're cool.

But..what happened to the wax? Did it go to wax heaven?

"Oh my God! It's full of margarine"

Everyone hates the Japanese for crashing what had been an 'Invite-only' Euro-party.

Or a mac?

It's actually the Canyonero

heh…ass burgers

This episode felt more like fanfic than a real chapter of madmen. I was surprised that wiener wrote it. I just felt like it was giving the audience what the audience wants to see, and it seemed like an off copy of the original.

I assumed he *was* royalty, and this was the story of how he boned the queen's hotter sister.

Just say it. Say it and pretend you're him

more like  C+C+ Dowd!

He parts his hair to the side in this one but it's the same character.

Has he started a fire?

Nice pick-off! I like that it was in response to a verbatim lift from the Holmes canon (the thing Sherlock said about certain people, while not possessing genius themselves, have the ability to inspire it in others).

Keith Richards's child died in the 70s and he didn't write a stupid song about it. He got big into heroin which is what you're supposed to do.