I personally don't care for a 'random stranger comes in and kills the villain' resolution but you're right that this is not a comic book ending. Not the sort of ending you'd see in any hero story, really.

Why? If he's asexual then he's just not interested in sex, and would prefer to avoid it under any circumstances. He could also be gay, and uninterested in sex with a woman for that reason.

If you haven't already, just read the original story. At the end, a random lady peer comes in and shoots CAM while Holmes and Watson are in the process of breaking into Milverton's house. That's exactly what you seem to want; luckily it's already been done for you.

Yeah, there's actually a blog post by a doctor from the UK (wellingtongoose or something? sorry, the name escapes me) that argues this exact point about the liver. He then goes on to analyze why Sherlock goes into cardiac arrest despite this, and makes some good points there too about how he comes back from the brink.…

I don't follow you. What is the meaning of the second 'that' in your first sentence? If it refers to the depiction of the friendship between Sherlock and John then I disagree. I don't think it was corny at all. (But then, just to be clear, my favourite episode this season is the wedding episode; I loved everything…

To each his own. One or two are a little more rare than I like, maybe, but in general, I find them all pretty good, and several are even fantastic.

That's a misrepresentation of what he said, which was that his mother advised him against taking the name, but he did anyway. He also said that he takes parts like "Amazing Grace" and "12 Years a Slave" deliberately as an apology for his family's history.

This is a brilliant analysis that really gets the intertextuality of the show as the best kind of adaptation: one that engages in a dialogue with and commentary on, the source text.

This comment that the show is a 'masturbatory spectacle' just seems like gratuitous Moffat-bashing. It puzzles me how some people who don't like Moffat or Sherlock or both always seem to forget that 2 other writers are also responsible for the show. The AV club reviewer of season 3 is also guilty of this…

I can see where you're coming from with your first and third criticisms (although I don't personally agree) but your second one is a bit of a head-scratcher for me.

Why on earth would he be? It's his wedding, and his asking a friend to
be a best man is a recognition of that man's role in his life — but
he's not responsible for the friend's speech. I also don't think the
speech really took 40 minutes. It took a lot longer to show the
flashbacks than it would to describe them. …