Given that Sherlock was fatally dealt with within minutes, I think it's fair to say that the writers can and will do what they damned well please with mortality. They're not going to be bound by "oh, but we saw him die onscreen!" if they don't want to be.

Oh, and they are assholes and Moriarty was popular. I wouldn't trust shit as far as I could throw it.

Ah, well. It's not like there's not precedent in canon.

My biggest problem with this week's Castle is that Alexis could pay the rent with a work-study job AND get a lease without a co-signer, based on said work-study job. YEAH RIGHT.

My biggest problem with this week's Castle is that Alexis could pay the rent with a work-study job AND get a lease without a co-signer, based on said work-study job. YEAH RIGHT.

In NYC. What kind of work study job does she have?

Is she still working in the morgue?

She might have bonds or something to pony up a few months rent up-front. She is pretty well-off.

Too well-off, I'd think, to get a work study job, actually...

Some schools have so hard of a time filling work-study positions that they will take people even if they are not underprivileged.

But then they're just "jobs," aren't they? Work study involves eligibility and federal funding.

She might have bonds or something to pony up a few months rent up-front. She is pretty well-off.

Too well-off, I'd think, to get a work study job, actually...

Everything about that two-line conversation! When I was in grad school, I was paying rent with loans that I had up-front, and still needed a co-signer. (Maybe if I had offered to pay the rent up-front it would have been different?)

You know the people that wrote that probably didn't think about it as much as you are, right?(Not trashing "Castle" specifically, though I did learn early on that it's not my beautiful cake.) But money on TV is always such a handwave.(Unless the show is like Friday Night Lights or whatever, where it absolutely can't be.)