I love Irene, but have trouble believing that John would encourage Sherlock to respond to her after all she did.

After writing f*** off (we saw it on Mycroft's screen), Sherlock said he was continuing to walk a long way because bollocks was a long word. "Faith" seemed to get the joke.

Mrs. Hudson was angry at him for ignoring her for two years after Sherlock died, and we don't know if he saw Molly in that time. So again his relationship with them hinges on Sherlock's presence.

Remember he had so many girlfriends he couldn't remember which had a dog in season 2.

Especially since Sherlock couldn't stop himself being shot (by Mary) and John being kidnapped twice. Why would he think it was different this time?

I assumed Mary knocked the stewardess out with the same drug on the paper she gave Sherlock. She kept touching the stewardess' face, maybe it was on her hands?

Why else would they give Watson a baby?

The Great Game was my favorite episode.

Probably no more coincidental than Mary's Maid of Honor being CAM's PA.

Well, Holmes got the dog from an acquaintance and not the police in the original story, so not a big deal to me.

Part of the reason John is so angry at Sherlock was guilt over the sorta-affair. It's human nature, like it or not. Ideally when someone "forgives," the original offense should be wiped clean, but human beings don't work that way. If you've horribly wronged a partner and they just try to forget or ignore it (throwing…

Cabin Pressure is the best thing ever.

I like that movie, but every female character in it is a villain. The crabby humorless wife, the social worker judging Robin Williams' home environment, even the brattiest of the children is a daughter. Only 20% of judges are women, but guess the gender of the one who takes away his kids? Meanwhile, the good guys are…

The writers probably hadn't planned the drug coma storyline yet.

Canon Holmes came back from death in a completely unrealistic way, because Sir ACD had planned to kill him off permanently. So I thought the show's approach was appropriate, and funny.

I don't think Sherlock is meant to be on the spectrum, but out of curiosity, why do people expect autistic TV characters to "develop" out of autism? It's like "that blind guy is still blind? This show has been on for 3 seasons, start looking at things already!"

The Abbey Grange had a similar theme. Holmes sympathized with an abused wife whose friend/s (male in the canon, female in TAB) killed her husband while setting up an elaborate redirection scheme (burglars in the canon, ghost in TAB.) It's also one of the original stories in which Holmes looks the other way and lets…

Found the cheese, understood that the mirrors were so the killer could see himself, figured out that the eyeball would have a fingerprint. He's doing that thing.

He's tiny and cute, no matter how tall he is.

I think they just mentioned the boy's height as an excuse to explain that Will wasn't his biological father.