Apparently bisexual isn't a thing?

The first scene with him and Lady Smallwood was pretty chilling.

Bingo.

If I had to pick a big mistake of the episode - and here I disagree with the reviewer - it's that neither Mary nor Sherlock should have masterminded the big background plot. Sherlock should have gotten Watson to try and help him simply because he needed Watson's help, as was originally implied.

All of them pale in comparison to the briefly glimpsed Eurus Holmes, who’s more frightening in her few minutes than Charles Magnusson was in the entire third season.

This was a good review, but this episode made me so happy. It was like "Yes! SHERLOCK IS BACK!"

Excellent! This is exactly what I was hoping for.

R2, DO YOU IS FUCKING

I LOVED S1E1, S1E3, S2E2, S2E3 (WOW), and S3E3.

Just wondering what holes you think Ava shooting Boyd led to on Justified. I thought it was pretty sound writing and character development for Ava, so I'm interested.

Possibly that's the difference. It was more of a fridge moment for me.

Ah, I LOVED "The Hounds of Baskerville". Still do. I thought the updating of the story from that episode was particularly clever.

In "A Study in Scarlet" Holmes actually DOES say that an investigator in France is as good at deductions as he is, and all he lacks is his encyclopedic knowledge of crime. So Conan Doyle did - at least originally - consider Holmes' skills learnable to some extent.

Honestly, the bullet scene really only ran into problems because of the slow motion. If they had done it normally, at full speed - like, for example, the episode in "Firefly" where a kid jumps in front of a bullet meant for Jayne - the whole thing actually becomes MORE plausible, because you can sell that maybe she…

I mean, I thought a lot of it was very well done. But yeah, there were problems. Ultimately I think this was a middling episode for the series, not their best, but there were worse ones ("The Blind Banker" and "The Empty Hearse" come to mind).

Actually, it was sort of similar to the Mary twist, and that's a really good point.

I thought the editing was actually better here than in "The Empty Hearse".

Anyway - I thought the twist with Mary lead to one terrific episode in "His Last Vow" (which isn't an AV Club favorite, but fuck it, I loved it), but when the Christmas special aired it quickly became clear that the whole thing was a mistake. To use a video game term, Mary was OP; she was unbalancing the dynamic.

The original story was admittedly executed more cleverly (it was also one of Doyle's few "fair play" mysteries, or close to one). The entire time Lestrade, I believe, and Watson are discussing the various types of psychoses that could perhaps cause someone to snap and go after Napoleon statues. They're so engrossed in…

So, uh, what you're saying is that the show initially made a huge mistake in the whole "Mary's actually a super-spy!" plot twist? How is that *better*…