sanggye

Nice return, Sherlock going home, even for 1 episode was cool, and seeing 2 literary characters, Lestrade and Mycroft and the mention of Langdale Pike (who was a columnist in the books) and of course the address of 221 B were the best parts of this episode.  The murder investigation was trivial and really a small part of this episode.

[ Last edited by sanggye at 9-27-2013 14:46 ]

sanggye

Nice catch with the history, though believe it or not it is possible to research one's history and not find any information about siblings, especially when it is not obvious..  Especially taking in account of not getting along, different schools, the time period (before social networking and public usage of the internet. and her history search might have not covered that.

I found the murder and solving to be blah, especially the deduction, all he saw was one item.  It had been too long since the murder, there was no gun powder residual (even Holmes said that) I can list at least  other 8 reasons, only one of which has to deal with a gun.

But this episode was good, not because of the murder, but for the interactions in it, and also the usage of some classic Holmes' elements with those interactions.

sanggye

There are million dollar awards to solve certain math problems, look up millennium prize problems.  And it wasn't that a second person solved it, it was that using the other's work they were closer to solving it.

sanggye

It happens all the time in real life, take for example Alexander Graham Bell, who did not invent the telephone, but was the first to patent it in the United States, at the period of time, others were working on the same thing.  This has happened quite a few times in the history of innovation.

sanggye

Watson is really coming into her own as a consulting detective, good for her.