Well, that does make more sense, then. I thought it was just like one of those weird cultural things like how the French love Jerry Lewis.

Yeah, the bit after the credits where it's really him talking suggests he's involved and it's not just somebody using his brief image. I still think he's dead but he probably put together an entire horrible mystery for Sherlock to solve and recorded lots of video for it (it'll be like his own personal Sherlock App…

Sherlock makes several mistakes in this episode and I think one of them is how he dicked around with Janine (not literally though, of course). She implies in the hospital that he could have told her the truth, Magnussen later implies that he made her life hell, and she sold her story about boinking Sherlock to every…

It's all basically implication, but after the shooting Mycroft talks to someone who's advocating for Sherlock's imprisonment and then there's Lady Smallwood who does seem inclined to let Sherlock off. Mycroft splits the difference as he sees it I think, and sends him away (to his almost certain death). It doesn't…

To paraphrase Strega who used to recap Angel on TWoP: "Once again good triumphs because evil is incredibly stupid."

Definitely. TEH had some great moments (basically every time the camera was pointed at Martin Freeman's face) but it was a bit of a mess. I thought the So3 was brilliant and one of its brilliances was how it hid the fact that it was also about one mystery all along.

Well, there is the unstated implication of just how much Mycroft worries about Sherlock. It suggests that his drug problem was once severely out of control. Or that he went a little out of his mind. He could've very possibly been checked in somewhere (is the British term "sectioned"?) by his family at some point.

British people often seem to have a worship of Sorkin in general. It's like their weird belief that Frasier was the best American sitcom of the 90s (I've seriously seen that in several British publications and I always think "was Seinfeld not shown there?"

This is how I'm going to picture Moffat from now on.

Newt fancier!

I agree that she's oddly dear to him—but she wasn't on the hit list, that was just 3 people: Mrs. Hudson, John, and Lestrade

I prefer Lestrade to Mycroft—and i think this series has a little too much Mycroft and not enough Lestrade. But at the same time, when you're making a TV series (even one that just has 4 1/2 hours ever two years) it makes sense to develop the relationship between Sherlock and his brother because it's a way to explore…

It's not so much the characters, but the way the show seemed to be saying "Women are like this and men are like that" all the time. Not to mention how the pregnancy storyline was basically told from Steve's perspective (it's one of my pet peeves that pregnancy stories in movies and TV often tell the journey from the…

'Egg Chair Sitty Thing' was my favorite. I also loved him misspelling the name as "Maddonna" and having no idea who she was. And one of the best things in the episode, actually, was when he thought John's description of him could apply to John…because it actually kind of could.

This is just what I was about to post. Just look at how he portrayed Irene Adler for example, changing her from someone in the original story who bested Holmes, to a woman who loses to Holmes because of "sentiment." Look at most of Coupling.

Lestrade always looks great. Always. I also love his apparent hopeless crush on Molly and the way he knew the killer wasn't a dwarf but he had no idea what else to say. (Poor Lestrade).

I flat out loved this episode. It completely redeemed last week's okay but not great return. I felt like this one was the real one for the fans, not the meta stuff of last week—it was like saying, since you haven't seen Sherlock and John for a few years let's just spend an hour and a half having a lot of fun with…

Does anyone truly like Chris O'Dowd? To me it felt like he was suddenly everywhere in pop culture and was never actually good in anything.

Snappily put.

I think they're really hindered by not having Paul McGuigan direct any in this series. The style in last night's episode was trying to approximate what he would do but it didn't work nearly as well.