And to a Slippin' Jimmy–era deception, no less.

John Slattery's character was a Cylon the whole time.

I've written a spec script for CSI: Cyber that's gonna blow this whole race relations in America thing wide open.

I watch a reality show about Canadian tow-truck drivers working in the winter.

I shot a fan of Leno, just to watch him die.

Just a bit.

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Weirdly, that's what made it not bother me anymore, somehow.

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Wizard people, dear reader.

Refreshingly direct.

Unfair comparison. All Holmes adaptations are but satellites orbiting a sun named Jeremy Brett.

Counter-argument: faltering, but salvageable.

Once you've established within nine stories that Sherlock, Mycroft, the taxi driver, Moriarty, Irene, Mary, and Magnussen all have superpowers, superpowers start to get pretty goddamned boring.

Oh, I absolutely believe they love the source material and are thrilled to be able to work with it. And I also believe they're aware of the criticisms of series three and will make some efforts to adjust their course.

The middle episode was the best of the three, I agree. (At least they broke that particular habit.)

Anakin Syndrome.

I'm probably in the minority on this — at least among people who aren't crazy about season three — but I actually did like how they handled the How question. Playing off the real-world reaction to the show, and finally refusing to answer the question outright, was kind of audacious and managed to be more satisfying…

Dan O'Brien of Cracked has a recent video about that, as it relates to the Marvel cinematic universe. I won't link directly to it, because I'm not a monster, but as usual he is entirely correct.

I think the basic elements were promising: Mary being an operator of some sort, Sherlock blowing the Magnussen case and resorting to murder, he and John being ill at ease with each other and Mary's presence being a complicating factor, etc.