I have heard variations on this argument since the pilot of Elementary leaked on the internet - and until the midpoint of the first season, I might even have agreed with them. But a very insightful series of commentary videos has convinced me otherwise - completely from the books (http://www.youtube.com/watc…. While…

Where password guessing is the height of brilliance (being the lynchpin of two consecutive episodes), sociopathy is merely "being a jerk to people who don't matter to him," and Sherlock can remember anything, except when he can't…there's a fair amount of fantasy floating around the worldbuilding of Sherlock.

Sleeping Beauty, not Snow White.  In Russia.