The morphine thing didn't bother me. Sure, he says it's to help him sleep, but maybe he just likes morphine.

So is that their solution for the coke thing?

I had so many issues with stupid medicine on Elementary this week. The thing is, I love the show! Especially the tentative partnership between Joan and Sherlock (it does not bother me that this Sherlock doesn't hew closely to ACD canon, since I... kinda don't care that much about the original. I find JLM's portrayal interestingly different and spicy.) But the case was just egregiously bad.

The morphine bit didn't bother me since I don't think he was actually using it to sleep -- he's a junkie. He's just in denial. The big things that bugged me:

- The leap from "little spot on finger" to "OMG someone killed him with epinephrine". That's a ridiculous leap that made no sense.

- List of all the people who died of heart attacks? Are they kidding me? They'd need a dozen blackboard, not just one.

- The entire storyline between Joan and her friend. Clearly the person writing the damn episode had no idea about how endocarditis patients present. OH MAN. Too many wrongness to list. Also, insert here me frothing at my mouth at someone without even an attending privilege in the hospital ordering an invasive procedure because of "her gut". And the fact that it was portrayed as heroic. Fuck that noise.

- The asshat surgeon's ridiculously convoluted way to get the Angel of Mercy to kill his patient. Sooooo, nobody else looking after this sick, sick patient in a tremendous amount of pain looked at the chart and did a double-take on the totally wrong-headed cardiac cancer diagnosis?? Or look into pathology report to see if that was not a mistake?

Seriously, couldn't they afford a decent medical consultant? This was worse than House, which used to give me rage blackouts because the medicine on that show was so terrible.

By "the coke thing" do you mean the seven percent solution? Sherlock is a recovering heroin addict. The morphine is a character in the weekly mystery.

And, like -t, I figured the guy was just a morphine addict. It doesn't feel like Ambien--they're not interchangeable trips.

Sherlock is a recovering heroin addict.

That's probably what I meant. I don't really know the canon (and missed this last episode.)

And, like -t, I figured the guy was just a morphine addict. It doesn't feel like Ambien--they're not interchangeable trips.

Then why have his whole blah blah blah wired and tired, need to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep justification? It makes no sense.

Seriously, couldn't they afford a decent medical consultant? This was worse than House, which used to give me rage blackouts because the medicine in the show was so terrible.

I had a lot of "wait, WHAT?" moments, oh yes.

The entire storyline between Joan and her friend. Clearly the person writing the damn episode had no idea about how endocarditis patients present. OH MAN. Too many wrongness to list. Also, insert here me frothing at my mouth at someone without even an attending privilege in the hospital ordering an invasive procedure because of "her gut". And the fact that it was portrayed as heroic. Fuck that noise.

I was bothered by having someone who shouldn't be there in the room there for the consult.

That's probably what I meant. I don't really know the canon (and missed this last episode.)

Specifically, this Sherlock is. ACD Sherlock uses mostly cocaine, with occasional morphine.

(BBC Sherlock's addition has only been alluded to, and no specific substances mentioned.)

Well, the multiple nicotine patches...

Then why have his whole blah blah blah wired and tired, need to sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep justification?

Because addicts dissemble? Isn't that really common? I don't have any relatives who are specifically (or only) addicted to morphine, but there are a million reasons they'll give before "it really feels good" and "it hurts when I stop". Really good reasons.