"Well good boy."

Must be what I saw then. I've always thought Mall Rats was his worst movie. … well until recently.

Mrs Hudson was in that episode too wasn't she? I'd say she fits the bill for more recurring female characters but not sure everyone would agree. Either way I wish she showed up more often.

It's hard to talk about that show right now because I don't want to spoil anything. But I'll say I think I know what you mean I just don't happen to agree in this case. The fact that it did keeping moving them to different environments worked for me and "drunk Sherlock vision" alone was almost enough to make the whole…

I didn't think the drunk bit was that bad. it was a stage night after all. I was much more worried by the opening. Sherlock has always had a great visual style but for a couple of minutes I thought it was turning into nothing but style. It quickly turned around and became a very good episode IMO.

I agree with you about being a purist. In a lot of ways when something I really like is remade I'd rather see it deconstructed and put back together in a completely new way. But that's only true if there is already a "definitive" version, like in the case of Holmes for me that would be Jeremy Brett's Grenada TV…

That is a very good point. I did not pick up on that at all.

That much we can agree on.

I think you missed my point. Or more likely I wasn't clear. Moriarty could only read what ever paper her jailer allowed her to read. It could have been/and should have been any damn paper. It's not like it wasn't known that she was the head of a world spanning criminal empire and that passing notes in a newspaper is…

no

Mass hysteria!

If you like that confused nonsense of the season 3 episode 1 you are looking for something different in a TV show than I am. The middle part of the show was good but the opening was 16 flavors of stupid and the ending…. what the hell was that last cut to the reporter? Just no.

I don't think Moriarty is "becoming" a better person. More that she is considering "acting" like a better person.

Speaking of newspapers… the only newspaper Moriarty had access to was the "New York Ledger" and the kidnappers used it to send messages to her. That's how she knew what it was they wanted from her. But how did they know that was the one paper she received? How did they even know she received any paper?

Yeah, as if there isn't already a ton of herpes in politics…

Except 14 million people never saw an episode of 30 Rock.

That's a decent idea but the group that posts on the Elementary thread isn't very large.

After two viewings I haven't seen a reason given for why he would pick those names. I'm going with laziness/lack of imagination on his part.

Also, the way they kept looking uncomfortably at, and awkwardly framed, the memorial in the lobby had me thinking that the head of the non-profit was in fact, somehow, a Jewish Nazi.

Am I the only one who really wanted Fabiana to ask Sherlock, "What is it pertaining" and have a sexy, hairy assistant named Donny?