Yes, I know. But that doesn't explain why he couldn't have dropped in at some point to give John a heads up that he hadn't actually watched his best friend commit suicide. Or, if he couldn't go to London, have had Mycroft tell John.

Genuinely shocked, but not so taken aback that he didn't continue right on with their date night, including some hand holding. He might not have intended to pick up a thirteen year old, but now that he has it seems like he's cool with it.

Right, but as I said in my first post — why let that continue for two years? Let John think it for a month, maybe, but at some point no one is going to be watching John's reaction anymore because no one would expect John to be publicly weeping over Sherlock's death in perpetuity.

To be fair, the fact that this episode was written by Gatiss doesn't mean that Moffat had no involvement in it. I think it's unlikely in the extreme that Moffat wasn't every bit (if not moreso) as involved in deciding what explanation(s), if any, would be given for how Sherlock faked his death. And given Moffat's…

This review perfectly encapsulates my reaction to this (obviously divisive) episode.

Yes! I'm trying to save more specific comments on that for when the episode's review goes up, but I seriously can't imagine a worse way of handling that reunion than what the show chose to go with. It was illogical, emotionally unsatisfying, and felt like they had taken the extra step of just filming the dumbest fan…

Yes! He would have been in this incredibly secure office how many floors up, and there wouldn't be a gun — how on earth would he have shot Magnussen? And how would he even be a suspect if his best friend was shot too? And Janine was just unconscious, not dead, so presumably she could tell the police that she was…

SPOILERS. SERIOUSLY, SPOILERS.

I was really upset by that, too. It's not funny or even just awkward, I was honestly totally appalled by how Sherlock treats John throughout the entirety of that episode. It's abusive, and then by the end John is totally fine with him again and they go on declaring their bro-love for each other throughout the next…

I, uh, kind of hated this season. I'm honestly surprised that it's getting so much love from critics while so many fans have disliked it, because I expected the opposite. It seemed like the first two episodes were almost exclusively about fan service of various types, and the two mysteries were not just very brief…

I love Lucy Liu as Watson, but if you're not a fan of hers generally then I'm not sure if you'll like her there. I do think (and I realize this is a dangerous thing to say on most parts of the internet) that Jonny Lee Miller is a vastly superior Sherlock to Benedict Cumberbatch, and Elementary is worth it for him…

That Scott Peterson boat line is a strong early contender for best joke of the year.

I think it's always going to be pretty difficult for the show to fool the audience on who did it, since they have such a limited time to introduce potential suspects, but instead of relying on that type of mystery this season they've shifted more of the mysteries to why or how it was done. I think that's going to be…

I get where Bell is coming from on this one: yes, what happened to him was the fault of the guy who actually pulled the trigger, and Sherlock couldn't really have predicted it. But he's also spent 30 odd episodes purposely antagonizing a whole lot of perpetrators/suspects, and given that they're dealing with…