This whole season was absolute, plot-holey trash. I did enjoy TLD but even that had sooooooo many mistakes and problems. I can't believe these are the same writers and the same crew, who did such spectacular work in previous seasons, suddenly forgetting their Writing 101 lessons such as "if the protag reads a letter but the audience doesn't see it, you must show it to them eventually" and "after establishing the rules of the story's universe (gunshot realism) don't contradict yourself 1 episode later (Mary)."

God, this is going to leave a horrible taste in my mouth. It almost retroactively reaches back and taints all the episodes that came before it.

The assassin targetting Lestrade was a male agent that we'd seen previously talking to Sally (whispering doubts in her ear) throughout TRF.

My "called it" will be that TST will be John's nightmare-- literally. They've laid seeds throughout s3 for John being jealous of Mary's apparent closeness to Sherlock, as well as the new clip seeming to be a nightmare scenario of neither of them thinking John is any good or worth bringing along to a case, and being saddled (literally) with the baby.

At the end of the episode, the nightmare ends (John wakes up). Then we see that Sherlock is still in his coma from being shot. He wakes up at the beginning of TLD.

People are debating whether the joking between John and Lestrade in that scene is too mean-spirited.

I'm on the fence myself. On the one hand, I know plenty of people who joke amongst friends like that, it doesn't seem mean and Sherlock doesn't seem to mind it all that much.

On the other...

Actually, you know what? I can't really think of anything. I suppose I fall on that side of the fence, after all. I can't really see it as mean or out of character. But without further context, who knows.

What do you all think?

I wonder what people imagine when they dread a Johnlock resolution. Like, do they think the show is suddenly going to become 90 minutes of John and Sherlock making out and having sex? Do they think the writers are suddenly going to change their characters into touchy-feely sex fiends onscreen? Is that what people are seriously afraid will happen?

The temptation there is to say "not that that would be a bad thing..." but realistically, we all know that's a ridiculous thing to fear, because no matter where they're taking this, they're not going to suddenly turn the show into a porno. Literally nothing will change, except there being an open declaration of the love that's already visible to the naked eye onscreen.

I honestly don't see how it could "ruin the entire show" considering how the entire show, so far, has been exactly about John and Sherlock's relationship with each other.

Ahh, I finished my Xmas fic in time! :D

Christmas Kiss and Guess
Teens & Up, 8k words
Greg proposes an unusual drinking game. Sherlock is eager to prove he can win, but John is certain this is one thing he can do better than his brilliant flatmate.They can't both win. At least, not in the way either of them expect to.

It should be on BBCi Player, I think there's a Chrome plugin called Beeb that lets you watch programs from the US if you want.

The docu was great! Mainly focused on the production of Splinter, but they also went into his career highs and lows. I felt that was the weakest part and could have been explained better, as it jumped around a lot. But the candid stuff with him, Gemma and the kids interacting in day-to-day life was very sweet and funny. Gary's genuine goofy personality really came through strongly, it was very endearing.

All in all, I wouldn't have seen this in the cinema, but I enjoyed watching it with Mum. She knew very little about him and doesn't know his music, but she enjoyed it too!

Since this has kind of become a general Gary Numan thread, I thought it worth mentioning that the new documentary Android in La La Land is starting in 15 mins (11pm) on BBC4. It's apparently really good! I'll be off to watch it after I post this. ^_^

It would be odd if they only did it in the US. Then again, the partnership is quite specific. But maybe there are other partnerships in the works that simply aren't mentioned (because they wouldn't be on this company's site).

Steam is a distribution platform for many hundreds of thousands of games on the PC, but that is hilarious that the first thing you saw when searching it was Genital Jousting, LOL!