The Doctor wrote:

Sam wrote:

The one thing that disappointed me in this episode is that we didn't find out if Sherlock was right.

I bet that was rather the point - driving us and Sherlock mad!

I highly doubt that either pill was safe to eat. It's just more fun when you can believe that you had a fifty fifty chance. I think both pills were poisonous to begin with. It's all in the theatrics. You're so busy watching the pills that you don't look at the cabbie - like a magician's trick.

Cabbie: I'm gonna eat this one now.
Show's audience: Yeah right. You made a slight of mouth & expect us to believe you.
Cabbie: Sherlock believed me.
Audience: He's as much a drama queen as you are. Actually he's better at the theatrics part than you.
Cabbie's ghost after John has shot him: I'll have my revenge...

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Eh? I don't get it...why would Sherlock be interested in her?

I just thought it would be funny if they got together.

She actually has some similarities to him:

They are both usually the smartest person in the room.
They both have obsessive personalities: When Sherlock is working a case, he doesn't eat. Abby actually does the same thing but she will drink heaps of caffeinated drinks, where as Sherlock just lives off air. Sherlock will often work through the night, as does Abby.
They both prefer to work alone most of the time & operate outside the normal chain of command for their fields.
They are both extremely stubborn when they hold a particular view & they happen to believe that they are right.
They are both alarmingly loyal to people that they are close with. Sherlock just won't admit to it.
They both have an older mentor who is very close to them: Sherlock has Mrs Hudson; Abby has Gibbs.
They both like to have something to talk at: Sherlock has his skull; Abby has Bert the hippo.
They both have a habit of talking way too fast when they're trying to explain something to their colleagues: Sherlock's "deductions"; Abby's "explanations" which usually take place in her lab.
In terms of personality, they are not as different as they first appear: He is a high functioning sociopath (that's Emo in i-gen language) & she is your friendly neighbourhood Goth. While his approach is to be icy & hers is to make you feel all warm & fuzzy, they make it known almost immediately that they are not to be messed with.

In terms of what Sherlock would see in her, I think she would be more difficult to read. Not just visually - I know he usually does the once over with his eyes, but he's never satisfied until his hunches are confirmed by the respondent's reactions. He makes outrageous statements about them for this reason, to see how they would react. The thing with Abby, though, is that she doesn't react the way you would normally expect someone to r

Montgomery Burns!

If they ever made a British version of the Simpsons (which they should! even if it's just a one-off special - just so we can see what Springfield might look like in the UK), he would make a great Mr Burns. I've heard him use that voice when he's joking around in interviews (sounds almost identical to the one that Shearer uses).

Can we get a forum or thread set up for creativity ideas? If you happen to think of something & you go: hey, that would make for a good concept/prompt, I wonder what people are gonna do with it? Is there a place where those prompts could get put? I know that this is mainly a forum for the discussion of the actual show rather than all the spin-offs that us fans like to come up with, but I think it would still be interesting to see where the muses take us.

It's true that you can't come back from the dead without some change in your personality but I don't think they will change him too much. In the interim, he would probably be very different, but after he comes back (once everyone accepts that he's not a suicidal maniac ), he would probably slip back into his old ways - people do that when they get comfortable

I haven't read enough of the original stories & certainly not in the right order (have always read the stories in jumbled order) so wouldn't know if there were any major character changes in the original stories (probably not, as Sir Arthur Connon Doyle didn't really care for much in terms of continuity - probably why it didn't matter that I didn't read them in the right order )

I love your take on his being afraid of heights - that's actually a really good suggestion.

Summary: Sherlock passes out. John muses on the reasons why. Containing an absorbing case, two bags of shopping, and a few apples.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6275170/1/The-Rational-Machine

quote from beginning of this story:

"...it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food, and I have known him to presume upon his iron strength until he has fainted from pure inanition."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder'

Summary: When a sleeping Sherlock is confronted by Lestrade and Watson about a case they find out that not only does Holmes sleep-talk and sleep-walk, he also…Sleep-Deducts? Completely unconsious and unable to lie, the truths of Sherlock's mind are open to both.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6203968/1/Hydrochloric-Coffee

It's showing, what I assume to be British time. I did select Australian Eastern Standard Time when I registered but it seems to have forgotten. How to make it remember?

summary: Sherlock asks John about Afghanistan. John confronts Sherlock about being a sociopath. A very important truth emerges. One shot.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6428871/1/Home-Truths

The writer is a favourite of mine. He writes friendship without it turning to slash.

Sherlock's "unique perspective on life & the world"

phase 1: Sherlock discovers that he has a unique perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsxhayAqAeE

phase 2: Sherlock tries to justify why he has a unique perspective & what he's gonna do about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IF4qlOLuMo

phase 3: This is the result of Sherlock's unique perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD6i2_HGgkU