wildwoodflower

I think you're mistaken about this though. John asks and Sherlock hedges a bit but tells him six months or so, I'm pretty sure. Unless you think John is being willfully obtuse about a man he cares for deeply but often can't figure out?

I thought it was great even though I pretty much knew what the house of silk was all about fairly early on. The curse of our modern world where certain kinds of behaviour and the ensuing scandals are all too prevalent (as they were then and from the beginning of time probably) but it was an excellent pastiche, one of the best I've read in a while.

I genuinely think (and this based on people I know who know both Gatiss and Moffat) is that they don't know how to make a women interesting without making them treacherous and dangerous. It's a flaw in their abilities, a weird blind spot and one of the only ways in which I think Moffatt lacks creative rigor. He doesn't challenge himself with the female characters. He did once. He wrote some beautiful, deep female characters for Doctor Who before he was a showrunner.

I have to disagree about the marriage being bogus, at least on the level of sincere desire to be married and a geuine love of the man (even by your standards of how much she is capable of doing so). She isn't getting married to John in order to deceive him. She wants to forget her past (impossible, obviously) and pretend she is this new person. Only at the wedding she is reminded that that isn't possible. I don't need to forgive the character. I want to see what happens. It may be that she gets killed, maybe she'll reddem herself by some grand self-sacrifice (which is often how these things are managed), maybe they'll work it all out and it will be all wacky Raising Arizona-like with the baby accidentally left on the roof of a car. Or both will tragically die so the boys can finally realize their sexy love for one another (like in all the fix-it fics ever). I like the damned character because she is interesting and complicated and seeking redemption but not doing a good job of it. If Buffy taught me anything, it's that redemption is possible for anyone who genuinely wants it. BBC Sherlock and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, two shows I love because of the juxtaposition of the mundane with the fantastical.

Pretty sure we're meant to believe he fancied Irene Adler. And being super-smart does not preclude sexuality. There are plenty of genius physicists/musicians/theoretical mathematicians who are total horn dogs.

So you are arguing that porn is not normal at all, let alone that there is a normal preference for it? But I agree with the rest, I don't think he'd be doing that much. I think Magnussen got it wrong. Could be John borrowed Sherlock's laptop and flooded it with cheesy badly produced porn as revenge for Sherlock always using his laptop. Someone should write a story of this epic war waged by laptop. I'm given to understand that men prefer the visual sort and women enjoy the written word a lot. Don't know how true that is. As pointed out, if Sherlock wants to indulge, he has a lovely room full of naked Irene to visit. Or maybe even naked John, what do I know? Gay porn would also be normal. So Magnussen only wants stuff he can use. The creepy illegal stuff. Sherlock's "normal" porn preference is useless to him. I just though it was a funny little line. I've been trying to read all the information CAM called up when he was assessing people. That one was just kind of...adorable for some reason. A great and brilliant mind who was in lust with another great and brilliant mind, has ordinary vanilla tastes. Don't get me wrong, vanilla's a great flavor. .

I think this is one of the funniest things the writers ever threw in to the mix. What does it even mean?

And also at the end of The Sign of Three, where Mary, when Sherlock tells her and John to go dance again, looks at him and says "what about you?" If that isn't supposed to be real affection... Of course, the actress didn't know at that time what was in store for her character (or so she has claimed), but I do assume that they would not have encouraged her to play her role like she did if it was all supposed to be fake. By the way: I love the way she says "come on husband, let's go!" Shortly afterwards. I can't help but fall in love with Mary every time I see the wedding (and I have to admit that, due to a very stressful day job, I watch it a lot these days when I come home...) As for John being a lantern for his two psychopaths, I don't know about that. I've never seen him as so terribly luminous. But he's very lovable, of course. I mean morally of course. I think John Watson has a very finely tuned morality in regards to his fellow humans. He's honorable in way that Sherlock (on this show) is ... less so. But Sherlock is actually trying to be better. And that's John's doing.

I kind of want it to be Sherlock's mother. She kind of flies under the radar for a certified genius that Sherlock seems to think "understands very little."

I watch it on a regular basis. It breaks my heart and makes me laugh every damned time.

Neither do I, but it would explain why she is so cheerful in that scene!Or it could be that she had only pretended to like Sherlock and was glad that he was going out of John's life. It's possible.. No... please? Oh, that would be terrible! Oh I do hope they won't "reveal" next series that Mary's affection for Sherlock was all an act. No. That would take so much away from the drama I value in this third series. If she doesn't care about him, what becomes of the tragedy when she finds herself "forced" (in her mind) to shoot him? Maybe I'm being blind with love for this character, but I simply cannot believe the Mary who pulled John through the time after Sherlock's fake suicide and who shoved him out of the door with Sherlock so they could both "run" each other and not crack up before the festivities from too much exposure to perfume, cake, lilac and guest lists, never existed. I vastly prefer to believe that one person can be a loving wife and a good friend and a stone cold killer all in one. Real people are complex and contradictory like that - why can't she be? Ah T.O.B.Y. thank you. Because that is why, despite everything, I still love her. I really, truly believe - from the actors choices and the direction - we are meant to see her affection for him as genuine. They are more kindred spirits than John is to either of them. He's kind of like the lantern in the dark that shows them the way forward. When she blatantly calls Sherlock out on his fibbing there's love there. Sorry, everyone else, but that's what I saw. Mary's complex and conflicted and I like that in a character. it's why I like Sherlock and why I like John. Layers. Lots of layers. And sometimes those layers are shifting beneath the surface like tectonic plates.

Female fans love Moriarty though (if fanfiction is any indication). He's just another boydoll to play with. They can smoosh the plastics face together and make them all kiss.

I think Sherlolly is the cutest smushed name ever.

Murder by Decree. I actually saw this in the theater when it came out:-) There are some seriously creepy scenes in this.

That was brilliant. Thanks for sharing. And I'm always amused by how quickly our fictional heros recover from catrostrophic physical injuries. (In Elementary sherlock is shot in the shoulder and a few weeks later is doing those crazy clapping pushups). Also at how quickly detectives on telly manage to get results from DNA testing.