my bad, I meant, "she's supposed to be a main character," as in the main draw of the show should be around their growing complicated, contradictory partnership, not just weighted on Sherlock's character development. I wrote that on no sleep.

I love your takedown of the lack of Joan. It's really been disappointing to compare the beautiful emotionally fraught scenes of last season (the body language alone in "The Proposal"!) with this season. Watching another CBS show like The Good Wife, you see all the potential ways they could make their world stronger by…