The NYT obituary quoted a source who said his part for MJ1 was basically done and there were 7 shooting days left for MJ2.

Speaking as someone whose depression gets suicidal from time to time, I think it's fair to say: Don't trust that someone who brings up suicide—even if it's just to say, "Oh, I'm not going to do *that*!"—isn't going to do it at some point.

Who would adjudicate? I doubt Cookie Monster would be involved in anything so sordid.

If you would like to know whenever Lestrade is on the screen, I can tell you! For I keep an eye out for him.

Weeelll…

Now you've just got "As I was going to St. Ives" stuck in my head.

Aw, I just copied and pasted excerpts from an old seminar paper ("The Use of Folklore in Constructing Nationalism(s): A Comparative Study of Turkey and the Turkic Soviet Republics").

Cumberbatch shouting "Merry Christmas!" now just makes me think of "Cabin Pressure." Which is nice, as it's a great radio show, but I agree it wasn't quite the thing for this scene.

I read a really good fanfic story where Molly and Moriarty are siblings.

I thought it was kind of cool they went with Magnussen being just completely repellant.

To pile on a small point for Mycroft knowing: He mentions something being in the punch.

Also! I don't even get why Magnussen was so smug about Sherlock showing up with top-secret information. It doesn't really implicate Sherlock that badly, and by extension Mycroft, when Magnussen's the one that sent a helicopter to pick them up.

It took me a bit to realize CAM was an abbreviation Magnussen himself used, not just one that's convenient for commenting on the internet.

I wonder if Redbeard's death is when wee Sherlock decided to be a high-functioning sociopath.

I up-voted you, but there's a point of contention: *I* need to do things to Sherlock's pretend girlfriend.

…people admit to that?

On the other hand…

Okay, but is Sherlock smarter than Tony Stark and/or Bruce Banner?

I really like her too.

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