there's no age in sherlock's description, only "shirtless man". you can read the script here http://www.zen134237.zen.co… it's interesting to pick out the changes, mycroft hiring joan instead of the father, for instance.

yeah, it's sort of nonsensical. i assume the mostly male creators considered it a nice round number for a female lead. old enough to be out of school with some life experience, but not so old people might consider her *old*.

right? i think at least part of that is down to intentional acting choices while she was being kitty (who i'd peg as 24-25). but you can't discount good genes.

i just checked and they're the same age, 29. also how old joan was originally intended to be in the pilot script. fun fact.

well said. gregson clearly cares a lot about sherlock, but, at least in the past, he was very conscious of their respective positions and of not letting his affection cause him to forgive sherlock's sometimes huge mistakes too easily.

even non-explicit writing requires thought and intent. a father adding sex to a fictionalized version of his daughter's life is creepy as a baseline. smut would bump it up to disgusting.

technically we did see her dad before, in a picture on her phone in the pilot, and it was not this actor. but apart from that, the only male authority figure we've met has been an old mentor from her medical days.

these are both true, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
a. novelist is a profession that can lead to financial success.
b. the watsons have a decent amount of money.
c. mary watson has no stated career.
leads to:
d. their money comes from his books.
if in a year (the average amount of time between plots dealing…

i'd find it easier to buy sincere regret & acknowledgement that he'd made a mistake, if it hadn't taken the entire cycle of writing, publishing, and receiving several checks for the book and joan directly confronting him for this reaction to come about. the sequence of events leans more toward "i'm sorry i got caught"…

and he could have reflected about whether he was okay going there and come back with "sorry, no". it wasn't his first book. they mentioned that he was a novelist in season 2 and the watsons are coded as financially well off. it was in his power to have either pushed back against the publisher or pulled his manuscript…

the five boroughs are all, on paper, part of new york city, but "The City" is manhattan.personally i (raised on long island, most of my adult years in queens) draw a distinction between referring to something as part of the city and saying you're going into The City, so i didn't see much problem with joan's line.

it did sound off to me when Joan said "I'm not usually in that part of the city" but it's technically correct. Brooklyn is part of New York City. it would've sounded better if she'd said "that part of Brooklyn".

Agreed. I compare the progression of cheating spouse -> poly marriages -> stem cell research -> fraudulent medical practices to whichever ep did cult -> ghosts -> terrorists -> insider trading and this just felt a lot tighter. It helped that I was engaged in the B plot and the A plot had a million seamless…

I will always be sad that her character was thrown away for a ninety second Moriarty cameo.

elementary did use character actor (& often villain) william sadler in season 2 and they let him be the midpoint victim.

dude. last night's was the first full ep i saw and i was kind of blown away. go allison janney. i'm so happy she found another show that lets her use her full range of abilities.

jake did take part in a sex work sting in season 1. that's how he beat amy in their contest.

agreed. more than half the eps include a case or bureaucratic/paperwork issue. that's more than enough to establish that they work in this place of work. i consider the plots where they don't accomplish anything to be rare slow afternoons or stitched together moments of downtime in between getting things done.

it would make me think of wuntch, personally

one of my favorite lines in the entire series