WTF are you talking about?? I’m literally a delegate to the California Democrats and a member of the progressive caucus. I work for an affordable housing nonprofit. Who the hell are you?

This has been such a surreal and upsetting day. I recently moved back to my hometown of San Francisco from London, where I lived for 9 years and worked at Parliament. It’s so bizarre and upsetting to watch something like this play out at a place I was every day, but from thousands of miles away.

I’m pretty fortunate in that I’ve never had any serious trauma or tragedy in my life, so this has WITHOUT A DOUBT been the worst week of my life. A fundamental optimism and faith I had has been broken, maybe for good. I’m devastated.

Oh and she was working WITH Moriarty. She was his client and her getting Sherlock to crack that code was a quid pro quo for his services. Moriarty was just a means to her ultimate ends for Irene.

Irene tells Sherlock “I get people to do what I need, when I need” and Sherlock’s arrival at the end of the episode was a culmination and fulfillment of that. She won. That smile of hers meant ‘got him.’ She got Sherlock - despite all his big talk about sentiment being a chemical defect etc etc - to travel halfway…

Personally I wouldn’t need an ‘ordinary’ character in this hypothetical show - just two badass women, one of whom has medical training (Mary is a nurse)!

I’m not a fan of Molly, but change it to Irene and Mary and I would pay obscene amounts of money for this.

And I feel that you completely missed 99.9% of the point of her character. Irene Adler is my favorite character from literature AND I’m a huge feminist - and I thought the update was brilliant (in spite of being written by Moffat). She might even outshine the original for me.

Um, what. LSE is where I recently got my MS. I don’t know how to feel about this...

OKAY Gabrielle, your anecdote confirms to me what I’d already suspected!!

Ugh Molly is annoying as hell. For me she’s tied with John Watson for least favorite character.

Omg how did all these fucktards get into this school?? (Rhetorical - I get how privilege works, especially there - but it’s infuriating!)

Everything everyone has said, plus the fact that it was very common for people of certain classes to be educated by private tutors in their own homes until Oxbridge. So ‘public’ also means outside of the home, with other children, on a shared curriculum.

I’m the opposite of a tech bro/transplant; I come from a family of educators, work in the public sector, and was born and raised in San Francisco. That doesn’t change the fact that I and the majority of my native SF friends are not fans of those neighborhoods. They’re too suburban - there’s no ‘there’ there, and…

I should go to Sacramento for my career but no government position could pay me enough to live there. It’s just 2 hours away from the city but SUCH a different universe, and not one I can handle. But by all means, anyone who would appreciate it should 100% move there (and out of SF)! :)

But there’s a reason those neighborhoods have escaped all of this, and it’s because, by and large, they’re terrible. My best friend growing up lived in the Excelsior and it’s utter shit.