Martin Freeman makes me think of Sean Pertwee, which makes me go rawr.

I think Cumberbatch is sort of ethereal.

But yeah, liking Sherlock muchly.

JZ! Are you around?

I KNOW I'm not supposed to go in the Salon letters. I know that... I truly do...

But just now someone referred to my "self-righteous Christianist Right politics" and I'm laughing to the point of weeping.

It's all worth it, JZ, its all worth it.

Do you guys really think that PBS edited bits of Sherlock?

They did. Some bits that were cuttable (some Anderson and Sherlock back-and-forth snarkage during the drugs bust, IIRC), some that had me squinting (I swear, they appear to have cut the cabbie's motivation out entirely, which I wouldn't have done.)

Not, you know, that I've watched this episode a dozen or so times already.

Oh, there was motivation, other than he was dying ?

Why is that oh shit?

My first reaction was sorta, "OK, here's yet one more way in which I'm weird and not like other people - one more thing to make dating difficult for me." But maybe I'm just tired and cranky.

And a lot of what Zenkitty said fits me....

Oh, there was motivation, other than

Spoiler-fonted full version yes, he had a sponsor (Moriarty) who paid him per dead body, in a fund that would go to his kids when he died.

Yeah, like that's not an important bit of information. But if they want to do the reveal of the villain more slowly it makes sense. I was wondering how Sherlock's fan had found the cabbie.

Wow! Just fininished watching it, and that is NOT what I would have cut.

BTW I don't read Sherlock Holmes as either asexual or demisexual, in either the original or 21st century version. I read him as "I'm a superman and better than everything else at everything I do. So, in any area where I lack special advantages, I won't play and will pretend (even to myself) not to be interested."

Yeah and like everyone else I assumed both pills were poison. Million tricks to either neutralize poison, or substitute something harmless in the pill the cabbie was left with.

In the books, Watson is hoping Holmes will get interested in one of the clients (Copper Beeches, the one about the bicyclist, one of those) because Holmes admires her wit.

But if they want to do the reveal of the villain more slowly it makes sense. I was wondering how Sherlock's fan had found the cabbie.

Eh, I think they thought it was a bit they could edit down with minimal effort just to make room for Alan Cumming being a sexy introduction bitch at the beginning. I mean, they aired it on the BBC with it, and the parts that they could've cut without losing any plotty stuff were more in the action sequences.