You might try writing things correctly before you accuse me of poor reading comprehension. Your parenthetical was before the comma, which indicates that it was referring to the "There's a difference between saying they've done a poor job" comment.

Maybe I'm just not remembering correctly, but I don't remember much of anything in this show that was particularly gutsy.

I was in the Army Reserves for 8 years. I have never shot at a person, and I don't know if I could do it if I had to. I would like to think I could, but not everyone can http://www.citizen-soldier….. And those who do kill, even when fully justified, often suffer extreme mental anguish because of it.

Didn't they have her explain why she was so calm?

Explore it - and then FLIP IT ON IT'S HEAD.

I was thinking the same thing, but re-watching it, they waited a while after the car drove off. And police responding to gunshots will generally take a little bit of time

No, some of it was just purely bad writing. WS doesn't excuse bad writing.

I have no problem with requesting last words, but you have to do it in a timely manner, or explain why it isn't timely. You can't have the characters stand around looking worried first.

I think it's possible that Mycroft doesn't necessarily want Sherlock OUT of NY as much as he wants him IN London. Like maybe to get him to help solve some things they're working on. It seems possible he wanted Sherlock to work on some stuff, but ideally didn't want to reveal his work with the government. The point…

Nah, that's Michael Rowe

I'm guessing that the assumption is that if Sherlock had left NY, Watson would never have bothered snooping around Mycroft's restaurant. They didn't necessarily know the list would be stolen/etc - they wanted Sherlock gone anyway, and Sherlock not being gone is an unfortunate side-effect.

Actually, re-watching it, it was L3g0l4ss5. In other words, it was either Legolas with an extra 's' and an extra 5, or it was Lego Lass with an extra 5, which is what they guessed.

Sure, but they were standing around for 30 seconds before Mycroft even asked for last words

Yeah, that bugged me. There are ways for the writers to have the scene play out the same way without the bad guys standing around forever for no reason, not shooting after getting the order to do so.

I agree. Half of Sherlock's episodes are excellent, but the other half are rather forgettable. And I like Cumberbatch, but there have been times when watching the show where his behavior just doesn't work for me. The biggest thing that stands out to me is when he basically turns into a petulant 5 year old. I'm not…

Glad I'm not the only one…

Unfortunately I stopped watching The Mentalist a while back when I got to busy, and I never got back to it.

But wasn't it L3golas5? So having an extra S could easily make it Legolas or Lego Lass

It took me a second to get it. It was delivered with such deadpan I thought it was a metaphor for how clever Sherlock was or something, and I was waiting for them to elaborate on that

I loved this episode. I think part of it is that I had written off Mycroft almost entirely - my view of him was similar to his brother's. He seemed kind of dense, and I couldn't understand what Watson saw in him (I still can't, but I'm much more willing to forgive that now). It helped that I was mentally comparing him…