It looks awful. It just looks like a nondescript detective show (much like the multitude of other nondescript detective shows that have cropped up over the past few years)

I find it odd that they keep referring to him as "eccentric" and "alienated" yet (at least in the preview) he doesn't seem all that odd.And, although I'm no expert, he doesn't exactly scream Sherlock Holmes to me. House seems more like Sherlock Holmes to me than Jonny Lee Miller does in this preview. And maybe it's just me, but when Joan hints at him for going too far during the strangling conversation all I can think is that he didn't actually seem all that out of line. Speaking of JOAN Watson, there is something about changing John to Joan that is very annoying. It seems cheap. Too obvious.

I thought I would have to begrudgingly admit to thinking Elementary was a decent show. Jonny Lee Miller is pretty decent, after all... now I'm not so sure I'll have to admit anything 

Sherli Bakerst wrote:

I'm thinking that perhaps the terms slash and ship are generational.  By which I mean that fans who are older are more familiar with slash and fans who trend younger are more used to ship.  Does that seem likely to you all?

I, personally, never heard ship before joining this message board.

I'm pretty young (24) and had never heard of "shipping" until I saw some Sherlock stuff. Slash is homosexual and I've always heard that referred to as slash. It sounds sexual but I've always thought of it as describing any homosexual relationship, whether the story was sexual or not. Whenever I see "ship" now, and I see it a lot these days, I never know what it means. It seems like its a catch-all phrase for making any two people a couple, hetero, homo, or otherwise. As far as I can tell. I'm curious to know where the term "ship" even came from.

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Don't know - just to creep out the woman cop I guess. I can't believe she actually did it though, why didn't she just say no.

I know, right?! And the other cop guy was all nodding like "Yeah, go for it" lol
If some sleazy criminal asked me to stick my hand in their pocket and I absolutely had to, I wouldn't slowly slide it in in a sexually suggestive manner, either lol But that's t.v. for you I guess

Nah I don't think so. They've made a pretty big deal about him being a virgin and most likely not ever having a girlfriend or a boyfriend. We never get a straight answer but I think we're suppose to lean towards no.

I think the writers enjoyed their opportunity to explore the fluidity of relationships. John says he's not gay and claims they aren't a couple. Irene says he might not be gay but yes they are a couple. They both doubt Sherlock can have romantic feelings yet here he is having them for Irene, who apparently reciprocates them despite being gay herself. I think the writers were making a point about how people think labels are set in stone when in reality they aren't. I don't think we're supposed to know whether any of them are gay or not or whether they have romantic/sexual feelings for each other or not as it is deliberately unclarrified. But I also think the characters themselves are just as in the dark about it all, thanks to the writers. I think the writers are just having fun keeping it murky and keeping the possibilities out there I know in many interviews they have mentioned that they've enjoyed the fact that having the show in the present day has afforded them the opportunity to have the possibility of gay characters/gay main characters and not have it be a big deal. To make a long story short lol, I don't think anyone (writers and characters included) are supposed to really understand the relationship between Sherlock and John, which kind of makes the relationship seem more unique and therefore more addictively intriguing

Sentimental Pulse wrote:

she has a sense of him. I would strongly bet she has it right.

Agreed. I don't think the writers would have Molly say that if it weren't true.

tobeornot221b wrote:

One of the funniest moments for me is when Sherlock tries "not to be myself" in order to not frighten the little girl and to do this turns his coat collar down.

I never noticed that about the collar! lol

It always cracks me up when Sherlock is taken away by the police and the superintendent is badmouthing him to John and Sally, then they show John get a look in his eye and pull back a bit-- then it just cuts to him being arrested too lol Brilliantly done lol

Wholocked wrote:

kazza474 wrote:

When Molly says she's getting something to eat & does he want anything, I think he was going ask her then about her helping him with the plan but decided to wait to see how things panned out

I think he was genuinely surprised by her "I don't count" comment and he was going to ask for something as a weird way of letting her know that she does and he does appreciate her.

I don't think he was going to ask about the plan then. I don't think he knew he was going to ask her about that until after he met Moriarty at Kitty's place. I think he was going to change his "no I don't want anything" into asking for something because he's learning that sometimes you say things not because you really want the crisps but because it's what you're supposed to say in social situations. Like, he realized Molly was asking because she was supposed to ask to be polite. The same way Molly pointed out that he "should probably say thank you now." I think the whole almost asking for something was just to show that Sherlock is trying to relate to others more, which is probably supposed to be interpreted as Sherlock evolving from some machine-like thing to a more humanized person since both John's arrival and the start of the series.

He definitely looked too far away to hear (or lipread) what John was saying. Maybe they put him so far away so that viewers wouldn't be thinking, 'Oh, hey, John would obviously see him if he were standing that close' I always thought Sherlock was in the graveyard to show than Watson had somewhat humanized him. This always seemed the right thing to assume because all of the actors and writers go on and on about how the series is particularly interested in the "humanization" and "evolvement" of Sherlock. Plus, there have been other hints of Sherlock being more sentimental than he first appeared. He now admits to having friends, he asks Mycroft if it's odd that they don't care, and he asked to keep Irene's phone purely for sentimental reasons. I don't think Sherlock would go to the graveyard to make sure John was safe. He has less conspicuous ways of obtaining that information and I don't think anyone would try to off or abduct John in a graveyard. My two cents

I would pay a lot of money to watch Benedict play Hamlet. Brilliant story, brilliant character. Ironically, I've found myself thinking about how fantastic it would be if Benedict Cumberbatch were to play Hamlet many times in the past!