Good point!

Yeah, but the client in that case is probably the dumbest figure in the original canon… and he's still treated better by Holmes than the detective on Sherlock treats anyone!

Obviously there's no way we can guarantee that will never happen… But a season and a half in, it hasn't happened and doesn't seem likely to happen, based on how Joan and Sherlock (and the dynamic between them) have been characterized thus far.

A shorter episode order would definitely allow Elementary to drop some of its clunkier mysteries. But it's worth noting that even with those off episodes included, it's still the stronger show.

Regarding Jack — I'm pretty sure that neither Rose nor Nine knew that he died. Did they? Obviously Rose knew once she was the Bad Wolf, and knew that she had brought him back to life… but she apparently didn't retain those memories once the Doctor took the energy out of her, since she isn't clear on what happened to…

For what it's worth, the pilot fish make another small appearance in a later episode. I won't say anything else to avoid spoilers, but they're with a different "shark" in that case. And even in this episode, they definitely seem to be distinct from the Sycorax, with their own goals and knowledge about the situation.

Somewhat amusingly, I've seen people agitating for Steven Moffat's removal from his role as showrunner with the line, "Don't you think he looks tired?" Whether you agree with them or not, I feel like you have to love the reference!

I can buy that — after all, while Ten's accent isn't exactly the same as Rose's, it's still much closer to that than Nine's was. (Interestingly, Clara also has a bit of a northern accent, so you could possibly make the argument that the War Doctor had her in mind when he regenerated into Nine, even if he immediately…

Eleven is also much less emotional than Ten, at least at the start of his run. To me, one of the earliest indications of Eleven's character comes when he tells young Amelia, "I don't even have an aunt." Considering that, as the Tenth Doctor, he had just come face to face with the Time Lords and all that Time War angst…

I went back and rewatched that scene, and you're absolutely right. The line is "nice vacations." I don't know where I got extensive from!

Jekyll's ending was pretty weak, in my opinion. But the show was awesome enough up to that point to more than make up for it.

The first episode was so full of the contempt towards the fans that you mention, plus Sherlock's emotional abuse towards John (abuse that is excused and even celebrated by the narrative). I've generally been a fan of this show, but I couldn't bring myself to watch episodes 2 and 3 after that.

It's also nice to get it spread out between two of them, as opposed to the Parks and Rec approach of dumping most of the abuse on Jerry.

Relevant:

I heard "extensive vacation" — which is still kind of a weird phrasing, but makes a little more sense for why that would affect hot tub availability.

What surprised me most about this episode, I think, is just how funny and surprising it was, even WITH knowing about the big change-up ahead of time. And with having, what, only fifteen minutes of actual content?

Sploosh.

Was it "years"? I could have sworn he said "ears," playing off people's later comments about Eccleston (and Nine's own comments about himself when looking in the Tylers' mirror in his first episode). Which is cute, but not really anything more than that, especially because that's clearly coming from the writer and not…

Can we all agree to do away with this "right for the part" nonsense? Anyone cast as the Doctor — literally the face of a global media franchise at this point — is going to be right for the part, because they'll have carefully considered and cast for their ability to embody the role. Tokenism is an absurd claim to…

I doubt we'd get this so soon after "Hide", though…