Jelly babies and the recorder were quirky. Same with the fez. Sunglasses, on the other hand, aren't quirky. They just scream of trying to hard to be cool. And Capaldi doesn't need them to be cool.

You mean the GPS system created by the Department of Defense?

I wondered if this episode was (in part) a deliberate nod to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

You mean he's going to start driving Bessie again?

As Pavel Chekov might say, if you say in the first act that there is a phaser hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off.

"I think he's pretty clearly the most high profile actor to take on the part."

I'm not sure a season's practical, but something like the Romana regeneration gag would be fun, with lots of potential but not finally chosen forms tried out.

It's your kid, Barbie! Something's got to be done about your kid!

Don't regret missing the recorder solos though.

Just watched this. So what did Magnussen actually have in his coat at 221B? A paper mache red herring? More generally, what does he do with any physical evidence he might obtain? Destroy it the moment he's seen it and mentally filed it away?

How can he know what Sherlock's going to say?

"It was Mycroft."

What's it meta to you?

"And there were a lot of corridors and quarries."

Ryan Chappelle got a silent clock. A few others too, I think, but I can't remember the rest.

If your comment was "extraordinarily late" three years ago I'm not sure what my response is now, but as some other commenter pointed out Semtex (unlike some other plastic explosives) is described as waterproof. If the electronics were also waterproofed (as one would expect from a criminal mastermind like Moriarity…

If I don't survive, tell my wife, "Hello."

"the box is always blue."

You do realize that Amy's baby has appeared in more than a dozen episodes, right?

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