Calvary too. I believe the US is getting it in the next month or so. It's excellent and definitely worth seeking out.

I watched it with the sound off and found it a little bit funny.

I disagree - I think it was there from the start with Emmett's character. I thought the message of "Don't you know they want you to like this song?" "Who cares, I genuinely like it" was a great one - Emmett loved the song and didn't care about what it said about his politics. Discarding something he loved just because…

He's fine taking potshots at his films himself but he can be extremely self-defensive should anyone else criticize them.

Agreed - it was an obvious joke by the time it got to cinemas, and it wasn't particuarly clever when it was timeley.

12 hours? She managed all of that in sixty minutes!

That's what I was yelling at the TV. Come on Jack - if Bond can do it, so can you!

Also my favourite Victor Drazen line.

The Curtis death is even worse if you know that it was originally the death planned for Tony (with Henderson being the vital hostage that Tony would be threatening to kill) but the writers figured they didn't have enough time for Jack to properly deal with the consequences of having to kill his friend. So instead they…

I'm loving this season as well but I'm going to throw Cheers out there for the 'Great seasons after 200 episodes'.

Yup, that's what tipped me off as well. Still, I see this season as a brilliant Greatest Hits package for the show and, as spoiling the shock return of a character was often telegraphed in the series proper by the actor being named in the opening credits, it seems appropriate to do it at least once this year.

True, but they worked on all three scripts regardless of the singular writing credits on each one (Moffat has spoken before about how much of Thompson's Sign of the Three script was down to him) and that part feels very much like a Moffat meta joke, given his bizarre love/ hate embracing/baiting relationship with the…

I'm imaging the exact same response Jazzy Jeff would get every time he walked on screen in Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Not only that but it will spend the first 30 seconds with Sherlock telling Watson "Of course that's what happened, anyone who believed otherwise and could concoct a silly theory that somehow resurrected Moriarty is ridiculous and stupid. Now on to the completely unrelated mystery of the episode"

Yes

I enjoyed series 3 but almost in spite of itself. The faults have been listed elsewhere and surely will be again (the bizarre duel celebration and damnation of fandom in The Empty Hearse might be the most egregious on a tonal level) but, for me, the biggest waste is how they have just given up adapting actual Doyle…

I don't know how extended it could be - the episodes already run at 90 minutes each. I'm assuming the special will be the same, it'll just be a one-off thing to sort the Moriarty stuff out leaving them free to do whatever they want for the next proper run of three.

Smaug hero-worship?

Surprisingly not.

I thought they were going to kiss.