There are, sadly, plenty of news stories one could site about victims of rape, whose assaults were recorded and available online, and who committed suicide, rather than face the taunts and cruelties of ones peers. The internet is a medium that a victim could fear, never mind TMZ.

It's interesting how in the first episode to be based on an actual Doyle story the mystery is dispensed with right after the last of the opening credits:

@avclub-989ca0fe3ec0682c7349593ff5feb4a4:disqus As I've said before, with 60 plus years of TV mysteries and cop shows you are not going to see a new plot. It's the combination of well-written mystery, well-written character moments acted with Emmy-winning skill by a great cast, and the occasional guests (Michael…

If I remember correctly it was in "Rat Race" we learn that both Joan and Sherlock speak Mandarin; in "One Way to Get Off" has the Mah Jong club, and while the boss pretended not to speak English, neither Joan nor Sherlock let on that they spoke Mandarin, but Sherlock deduced that the boss did speak English. No one…

Agree. It's the little character moments that make this show a pleasure to watch two or three times. When Sherlock shows Bell the instagram of the stolen phone and says to Bell, "Do you see the shadow?" Bell: "Yeah looks like a shadow." Joan looks over to Bell and Bell gives her a quick glance then looks back at the…

By the way, Joan gets back at Sherlock for the "several black belts" dig by telling Pam that the reason Sherlock wants to avoid small talk is that he gets carsick like a six year old child.

You're not suppose to think about stuff like that. You're suppose to pay attention to Clyde and Joan's high-heel and leather shorts blizzard gear.

You may be right, @avclub-8583cd7c50cc85d47a8db2dae972cd72:disqus, however, Sherlock says he didn't pay the phone bill because —who has land lines anymore?— I think that is an excuse because he is prioritizing what he uses his limited cash reserves for. I do think the writers of the episode were highlighting…

Sherlock: “Detective Bell once confided in me he played Sky Masterson in his high school production of Guys and Dolls.  I had not, until this moment, imagined that he was any good. Stage’s loss is New York City’s gain, I suppose.” According to the "Elementary" writers tweets Jon Michael Hill did play Sky Masterson in…

That's the problem of having 24 shows in a nine month season and having three of those months being "sweeps" month where ratings set the revenues for the year. Something's gotta change—making the season shorter and twice a year like basic cable or have two series premiere periods during the year, one in September and…

@avclub-989ca0fe3ec0682c7349593ff5feb4a4:disqus No problem. While not obsessive, I do check out news stories and interviews on the show. I figured that if I could find them, everyone else must have seen them already. It's good to be reminded otherwise.

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Apologies. While Jones' return, Abraham's guest appearance and season finale involving Moriarty are in the media and what Abraham will do is only speculation on my part and not based on any knowlegde, point taken.

The black belt joke works on so many levels—the meta of Lucy Liu being cast as "the hot Asian martial artist"; Joan Watson not being able to fight; harking back to Sherlock's many putdowns of Joan's role (valet, bodyguard, glorified helper monkey, etc.); as being on a level with his misogynist remarks. The one thing I…

I have to say that I liked this episode more than Myles (B+) and more than "Déjà Vu". "Sherlock’s motivations to solve a crime depend on two things: either
there is an injustice that needs to be rectified…or there is something about the case that
makes it interesting to him on an intellectual level." Yes, that is…

@avclub-943bed14192fee046510105155dd9073:disqus We have different world views. As I try to be respectful of others, I hope my snark did not come across as disrespect. Apologies if it did.

Two things. One: this is a show with a character named Sherlock Holmes. We know how Holmes operates. He believed to be a detective one needed "the power of observation, the power of deduction and a wide range of exact knowledge". For Sherlock to train Joan in his methods, he would want her to cultivate her skills in…

There are "Joan" episodes and "Sherlock" episodes. One or the other will have important character arcs. On the "Joan" shows, she will have a moment where she sees something that will help solve the case. A lot of the time it will be medically related, but she also has done "brainstorming" where she will say, "What…

@fursa_saida:disqus This is why the whole déjà vu concept of framing the story did not work that well for me. The writers wanted to parallel Joan's first case with Sherlock's, so she needed to be arrested. There should have been a discussion between Joan and Sherlock about when, as a detective to solve a crime, you…

"During that scene, Holmes works to frame the case in a way that might
spark Watson to deduce the answer, or at least that's how I saw it.
 Throughout the scene, he makes the deliberate effort to draw Watson's
focus back and he doesn't look surprised when she makes the comment
about "B" leading to "A."  Maybe I'm just…

"The final scene when she changes her "status", however? Eye roll central" I think you're wrong. It worked well within the whole of the show. Sherlock tells her when she questions the husband, it'll be the first time she can call herself a consulting detective. When the time comes, she chokes. She has yet in her mind…