unless it's a pregnant woman, in which case she gets a belly and nothing else, as though she has a personal trainer helping make sure all the baby weight stays exactly in one place.

i stumble on them at food markets all the time. tell her to try herald square or madison square park.

exactly. there's also the fact that he hates his current assignment and might have needed this push to figure out how to use his position to still do worthwhile work.

i said how they validated it, by presenting torture as something that gets results. the true horror of torture is that it's inhumane, cruel, AND it doesn't work.

it's true, she is building up a very varied resume.

ever since i got out of the theater last night, i've been mulling over kate's treatment in the movie and whether i would have preferred it if the character had been played by ryan gosling or somebody. you're right. that would have robbed it of impact. though the gaslighting and condescension, among other things, makes…

this role is the opposite of fun. she is literally having the least fun of anyone onscreen, apart from the mangled corpses.

i might be wrong because i only watched the once, but i'm pretty sure she knew him on sight, saying his name and lighting up as she recognized him. i like your theory, though.

alfredo's mother was really great. i'm fuzzy on how she would come to know that sherlock is an addict, though. if i squint, i'm cool with them meeting after sherlock fired alfredo and they officially became friends, but the second part of NA is sort of important, you know?

i disagree that they don't consider sherlock more important. they're the ones who decide how joan should react to everything. finding out that her mother might have alzheimer's could have been extremely emotionally affecting, given that she's been dealing with a parent who is schizophrenic all her life. but instead…

sherlock's bedroom is where they caught the box bee in possibility two and where "irene" stayed in the woman. but they never do mention it and he's never been shown sleeping there.
i think getting rid of joan was because he forsaw sex happening whenever and wherever the mood struck and he didn't want to limit himself…

i agree that this was a lot tamer than he's been in the past. it's the continuing pattern that gets me.

wow, that's really well said. i'm just bothered by the juxtaposition of sherlock's summation the only other time we got to see the watsons two years ago "your family is nice and conventional, and you're only appearing to be" with joan's "i'm the least weird watson" because 1) they could have phrased it a different…

my problem is it's completely, 100% one-sided, and as i mentioned, she is an incredibly private person. the writers choose to have joan not react because they, mostly straight white guys, think his comments are hilarious and if they let her have an outright problem with it, he would have to stop. what's baffling is…

some friends do that. my favorite example is jake and amy on brooklyn 99. but this has always skeeved me out. joan never throws one of those comments at sherlock or laughs when he does it to her. given how rarely she chooses to talk about her private life, it's disrespectful as hell to bring it up in public, and he's…

i generally liked the watson stuff in this ep, but joan saying she's the least weird one in her family is itself super weird. how many times has sherlock done a shout-out to her nice, boring, conventional upbringing?

he had a similar "this is beneath me" reaction in snow angels, though he made sure he qualified his confusion at being called with respect to the victim and to the nypd's ability to solve the murder without him.

"this is where Sherlock has always lived, and where he will continue to
live, and to express concern over it is inevitably to create concern
over his own state of being." i disagree, to an extent. sherlock has multiple outlets for his darker feelings - NA, alfredo, joan. whereas joan doesn't really talk to anyone,…

by the way, some sort of snafu led to the final scene of this ep being released as a sneak peek on youtube two days ago. it was up for about 24 hours before it was taken down. wrecked the shock for some of us.

i disagree that the case of andrew's murder isn't personal for sherlock. joan was clearly the intended target. i could see him going wrath of god on these people.