@avclub-e5b4fef159d90a480b1961cef89a17b7:disqus My favorite Rathbone/Bruce film is 1939's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" It takes place in the right time period (Universal's two Rathbone/Bruce films are set in Victorian England. When Fox took over the series they set it in the 1940's, when they were made, to save on…

I think it's the writers once again showing their deep knowledge of the Canon. Seven pops up often in the stories: "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as far as we know them." (Holmes in "The Copper Beeches"); Miss Harrison: 
"Do you see any clue?" Holmes: "You have…

I thought her accent was acceptable. As for her voice @avclub-29ec0fbe1f8e460ddba44677001af386:disqus, I think she did what other actor sometimes do, imitate someone else. Liam Neeson in "Leap of Faith" imitated Gary Cooper in his role as a small-town Mid-West sheriff; to my ear Nicola Bryant as Perpugilliam "Peri"…

In "A Study in Scarlet" Watson, fresh from Afghanistan was described "as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."

@avclub-22cfdce02d35728058686d49fc89a63b:disqus  I liked Jared Harris in "A Game of Shadow", he was subtly creepy, except when he had RDJ on the hook. By that time I bought the character and meat-hook Holmes had to advance the plot.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus Sherlock's not the type of guy to have a lot of mementos hanging around. He put Irene's letters in a blender, after all. However, in an article in the NY Post on May 11 is this quote: “When Sherlock meets Irene, she gives him a sovereign pin for being witness to her…

@avclub-22cfdce02d35728058686d49fc89a63b:disqus While I think Andrew Scott is a wonderful actor, making Moriarty a Jack Nicholson Joker-esque villain was the wrong way to go. "He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city."? The way Scott plays him I doubt he could…

@avclub-ce7da3812ed2a993e2194cd75e94b18b:disqus Joan has no reason to think that Irene is alive, thus the woman painting would have no special meaning to her—if she could see her (large canvas in the way not hallucination). Her focus would naturally be on Sherlock's very unusual reaction. That's how I read it in the…

"she's the hero of her own story" I like that @avclub-465f9232025978f8fd01ce1a0156be61:disqus. Doyle does something great in that story; he turns our expectations around 180 degrees. She is "of dubious and questionable memory", "the well-known adventuress", an opera singer and so, in the eyes of many in the Victorian…

@drdarke:disqus Had to go to Wikipedia to look up Daemon and Freedom(TM). Who knows what book plot I'll channel when I watch "A Landmark Story" a third time.

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According to Clyde's agent, he refuses to work with any other animals, especially bees. Fun fact: While Clyde enjoys iceberg and arugula, mizuna is his favorite, but has been know to storm off the set if he even smells watercress.

I think that @avclub-db28507034068ea227ef2f0ae9e633d0:disqus above got it right. The "Elementary" writers like to put in little inside jokes like that. Of course, if you are a Marx Brothers fan, you could be thinking of Sig Ruman as Herman Gottlieb, nasty head of the New York Opera Company.

@avclub-8583cd7c50cc85d47a8db2dae972cd72:disqus Perhaps we'll find out that John Douglas was also known as Birdy Edwards, undercover man from Interpol and had to be eliminated. Maybe this episode should have been expanded to 90 minutes.

@avclub-ce7da3812ed2a993e2194cd75e94b18b:disqus  "… he was at the very least the Moriarty 'figure.'" Talk about meta! Moran was the Moriarty figure before Sherlock knew about Moriarty? ;-) In all seriousness, while I see *your* point, I have to disagree that playing the Moriarty expectation on the viewer "is…

@avclub-7b1955c0927ae649958ccb84769fcaa9:disqus you are my hero! You do not know how cumbersome it is for me to repeatedly watch my videotape with the closed captioning on to transcribe the dialog.

That might have to do with the brownstone being a studio set (in the pilot it was a physical location).

Actually, most of the Holmes stories written by Doyle are not murder mysteries. Many turn out not to have any crimes at all, like "A Scandal in Bohemia", "A Case of Identity" "The Crooked Man", "The Yellow Face" etc., while others like "The Red-Headed League", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Naval Treaty", "The…

Yeah, and Joan goes to the internet and finds him in a minute—of course she remembered the commercials and Sherlock was in England back then. However, Sherlock seemed to be awfully quick with the lock-Alfredo-in-the-trunk idea. I guess he *really* wanted to avoid the whole sobriety chip thing.

@avclub-b04d7a2607c625d98a54844723e589ff:disqus "That attitude seems dated, though, doesn't it?" Well, "The Sign of Four" was published in 1890. Doyle's Holmes was an unique person, one of Bohemian attitudes, and England has a long tradition of brilliant eccentrics. Make of it what you will. The showrunners have.…