My favourite quote has to be “I’m in shock. Look, I have a (shock) blanket.” (must watch the show to understand this quote in context!)

(spoilers for episode 1) – When there was the scene with them both at the resteraunt, waiting to see who would turn up outside the crime scene, and the cab showed up and they ran it down, my first thought was that they realised it was the cab driver, and were trying to chase him down, and it all made sense. When they finally got to the cab, and he went after the passenger… that confused the heck out of me. Likewise at the end, sure Sherlock thinks he’s smarter than anyone, so he not just won’t but can’t back down from a challenge of wits… but the part with the two pills drive me nuts at the end, because there wasn’t that final reveal where Sherlock makes it clear he knew the secret of the pills all along, and was trying to break the killer’s spirit. Because to me, it was a simple con game. The killer is presenting you with a story, and then tells you what has to be done, with the assumption that you bought the story. I totally forgot that they did it with Princess Bride until Mark reminded me, what I compared it to was three card monty. First the dealer shuffles the cards, then shows you the queen, then shuffles them around on the table and tells you that if you put your money down and pick the queen, you get the cash. But it’s a con, because the underlying assumption is wrong… the queen ain’t there anymore. You can pick all three cards, the dealer palmed it or covered it with another card. It’s the fundamental principle of the con, get the sucker to buy into the underlying rules, but there’s no way to win unless you let them by leaving the card there a few times when there ain’t any money riding on it. The two pills were presented as one being good, one bad, and they’d each eat one, and guess which is good. But it’s a con. The underlying assumption is, at least one is good. But if the villain had an antidote he took previously, or was immune due to continuous exposure, then it’s a pure con. Eat either pill, you’ll die just the same. And I felt Sherlock should have known it, but it would have been awesome if he SHOWED taht.

Wow, sorry for the rambling reply.

For me, the thing is that I loved the shows’ presentation, the acting, the speed, the humor, the actors themselves…. I agree with your points about story, I just felt that it’s was pure fun.

The bad guy walks into the room and Sherlock goes with him? Um, lock him in irons straight away! Or at least tell your back-up what is happening. And as for not figuring out what job the bad guy had in episode until late in the show…please; its like it was written for under 13 year olds. And I didn’t give the 2nd and 3rd show a view, the damage was done. I’ll re-visit if somebody gives me a dvd in a year or so, but sheesh – it had nothing on the latest film’s re-telling of Sherlock.

Fine, I’ll try it at 1 first….

Which I didn’t think was necessary, and didn’t think added anything to the show but wasn’t all THAT irritating until I had my son, and the shows became something I won’t watch with him in the same room. And for shows that would be fine dramas without those scenes, I don’t know what demographic they are making those scenes for, but I’m not it.

I don’t need to see bodies violated and ripped apart and cut into and shit to enjoy a drama, but it’s become a ‘thing’ in those shows, and so I don’t watch them.

I also was never one of those idiots that were fascinated with watching the “Faces of Death” movies. Maybe the desire to watch that level of gore is more pervasive than I wuld have thought, but I don’t share it.

Too bad, we LOVE the actor that plays House, and we watched the first two seasons in delight, until the gore scenes finally just got to be too much, and watching it after our son went to bed became too big a pain in the butt.

Interestingly, Netflix shows season 5 not being available until Nov 9th, so I’ve got some time. It’s interesting to think of, knowing that seasons 1 – 4, if we watched them and liked them, is now a self-contained time capsule of Who. Would we start watching and fall in love with the actors’ portrayal of the role, and feel a bittersweet enjoyment knownig that is would end, and when?

Moffat may have taken over complete control with S5 but he was writing episodes for Dr Who from S1 with ecklestone and to be honest i would recommend you watch all of the new series so that you get a much better understanding of the Dr and his various incarnations. Lore wise etc it will all make much better sense.

Yeah, pretty much, and the creators have come out to acknowledge this:

http://www.housemd-guide.com/holmesian.php