Let me preface my remarks, Captain, by saying that as a Sherlockian and a TV viewer, that I like "Elementary" a lot. There was quite a bit about this episode that I thought worked well and character moments that I liked. With episodes like "M.", "The Red Team", and "A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs", I think I am…

By the way—whoever makes the next-week trailers needs to be reassigned. The "splat" sound effect when bee-lover Holmes is clearly capturing the bee with a cup? PLEEEASE!

I guess I'm in the minority here think that the show was less than the sum of its parts. Plenty of good, small moments. The killer's identity was easy to spot and at the end all Gregson, Holmes and Watson had were eyelets and a lot of suppositions. If I were Reyes, I would have called my union rep and held my tongue.…

As we have seen Miller's ribbon tat on his right shoulder blade saying "Sister, Mother, Father", I would like Mycroft to be Sherlock's older sister. Then we can have Papa Holmes' named Mycroft and first-born sister also stuck with the name Mycroft—named after the father or old family name that she's stuck with.…

Talk about continuity errors—when we first see Rhys, after his shower, the bathroom door is open, then closed, then open. Fortunately, it didn't make the episode unwatchable. Was the episode directed by Joan's sub-letter Cooper?

Not only an homage to Sherlock fans with "I believe in Sherlock Holmes" but an homage to "Game of Shadows" with Joan and a naked Rhys as a parallel to Mary Watson and a naked Mycroft.

In "Lesser Evils" Sherlock reads Joan's body language quite easily and of course we know he has no problem in hacking her phone. I would be surprised if he doesn't know by now that Joan lied. You're probably right about Sherlock's father.

It would be worth reading "The Final Problem" to know almost all that there is to know about Professor Moriarty. Any other pertinent additional information is contained in the novel "The Valley of Fear". You can skim Chapters 1 and 2 for most of the rest. Of course, you're right that you don't need to know that stuff…

On of the other things about the Sherlock's introduction to Bill is, as someone in the intelligence community, Bill could find out all he wants to about Sherlock and Joan. The normal person would want to hide as much as possible. Sherlock's bluntness is also disarming; by acknowledging to Bill negative personal…

Jonny *Lee* Miller's grandfather was Bernard *Lee* who played M in the early James Bond films.

Your Doyle loathing Nietzsche thing? Have you been reading Samuel Rosenberg? In all the biographies of Doyle that I've read Nietzsche doesn't much factor into his thinking, at least not until after the turn of the century. Doyle really was a Mensa-level genius who looked like a jock. He could have been thinking of the…

Actually, drdarke, Moriarty was mentioned in more than three stories: aside form the ones you listed he was mentioned by name in "The Norwood Builder", "The Missing Three-Quarter", "His Last Bow", and "The Illustrious Client". However, I take your point. Moriarty never appears in person in any case—he's in a Holmes…