Principally the reconfiguring of Watson as a woman being influenced by the iconic pairings of The Doctors & his (prior to 'our Jodie') mostly female 'companions'.
There's some similarities with their dynamics & they usually also come together in a not so good twist of fate.

Some parallels betwixt Cptn Gregson of the 11th & The Brigadier of UNIT, eg both dealing with the idiosyncrasies of the central character whilst acknowledging their value & having to answer to higher-ups.

One could even speculate about a reverse process with the groundwork for a female 13th Dr being laid by Ms Liu.

Almost definitely random is Inspector Gareth Lestrade (just "G." in canon) being played by Sean Pertwee, son of Jon who played the 3rd Doctor.
It's even there in some mannerisms.

Also: Scarves.

The 2nd image is from the Tardis wiki & the gal from Down Under (in the middle in mauve) is Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) who spanned a regen & makes a return in ths decade.

Man joan makes me mad lotta times. She is fkin selfish and does so e bullshit time and again.

Helping out shinwell even after he almost killed sherlock.

This woman sometimes seems like a master manipulator, I xan now understand why moriarty likes her.

✌️

PS: this my first watch , so they might pull some crap how shinwell did this for greater good ....judging from the past seasons. But my take still stands.

SHERLOCK LOOKS SO WEIRD BALDDDDDDDDDD

eughhhh

this is js me crine abt how weird he looks

ik it was for everyone anf all but ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Over in the main Sherlock Holmes sub, Cucumberpatch is getting a lot of responses!

Or should that be "!panS", to be back2front as the gal is Holmes & the guy Watson (the couple on your right).
From S06.E12-"Me(e/a)t Your Maker" & the entrance queue for Makermagic Fest (apparently a Geo-caching thang IRL).

I love such meta-shiz & am surprised there's not more of it in this series sorta cerebral.
Or am I missing it all hiding in plain sight?

My fave elsewhere has got be in the zanily logical & repeatedly referencing everything Arrested Development when someone's ringtone is the show's theme tune.
It could be easily missed as it's only a bar or two of it in a moment there's lots going on.

Mine is our brilliant Sherlock Holmes saying "PIN number" twice throughout the series. The N in PIN already stands for number, so he's essentially saying "Personal Identification Number Number". 😂

For me, those would be: pied-à-terre, flimper, de rigueur, crassulent, micturate, Umwelt.

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OK, a musician & not in this series, from my yet to complete watch & anyway, why-woodja if you were her?
(Maybe never a sworn Peace Officer, but dear Joan does kinda 'police' the wellbeing of those in & around the 11th & sorta temporarily becomes one in a way, with a specific intent & purpose (S04.1st Quarter)).

Joan Wasser has a fine NE YouSay? indie pedigree & is currently touring Europa, with Mar27 bookings for City Recital & Port Fairy.

Amongst her long oeuvre the song "Witness" is obviously one of interest (as in potentially relevant) ... & upon investigation it's not a world anyway from the E feem toon, the show's deeper schtick & there's at least 3 plausible references in the music video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rDSJOiDDKc .
It's all connected. Or not.

The observant will notice that Ms Liu is not wearing an NYPD uniform, nor is the light quite right for that part of the world.
Where's the image from & is it any good?

I started watching Elementary in 2012, I wasn't yet 30 years old. Since then I've moved countries multiple times, become disabled, cut contact with my abusive family and their many flying monkeys, suffered many life disappointments and traumas.

I still remember the moment when I first watched Sherlock describe the drip drip of the leaky faucet of maintaining his sobriety and for the first time I felt like I understood what was so difficult about my own struggles even though they weren't due to addiction.

Today as I'm alone on Diwali in a foreign country I currently live in; no family or friends to connect with or exchange Diwali festivities or wishes with... What brings me home to myself is the art that has accompanied me since 2012...Sherlock and Joan and others on Elementary.

I'm so grateful for this show. I know it will still be there for me through the tough times in the future, too.

Who sees this as a telly reference?
(Hint: First wave blow-wave & "Nanu Nanu!").

A coupla apt accompaniments musical, too vaguely connected to be spoilers for the ep, S04.E06-"The Games Underfoot":
-"Black Bugs" by the mighty 'Gurg; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCA7--Qcp78 , &
-"Push th' Little Daisies" by Ween; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjPb3nNprg .

season 1 is my fav🫶🏻

On my 6th watch through of the whole series and its the first time I've noticed this.

When Sherlock is playing the piano waiting for Gregson and Bell at it shows his bare hands playing the piano, when he stops playing and stands up it shows his hands already wearing gloves. I mean no disrespect at this entire series is my favourite show in the world, it just made me think that on a show about minor details meaning so much, this would have been picked up.

Elementary is my comfort show, and I want to say once again that I love Moriarty, sorry, I can't stay silent

this is the ep where the victim's dad begs for sherlock and watson's help multiple times during 5 years, we're shown flashbacks of them working on multiple cases and turning him down every time. as prescriptive period is nearby, the dad snaps and takes watson and other people hostage to force sherlock to find his son's murderer. sherlock solves the case a tad too late but he still finds a way to arrest the son's murderer despite the prescriptive period, while the dad also goes to jail.

i thought the episode kinda failed to tackle the context that brought the case in the first place: sherlock and watson who kept on dismissing the poor man, sometimes in an honestly condescending way. it would have been great for once to put the focus on the fact that yeah, these are two brilliant detectives but they got tangled up in their work so much that they met human desperation with coldness in such a way that they caused even more harm.

yet not once in the whole episode did anyone, not even watson, address the way they've demeaned this man over the years, which really surprised me, especially since it feels like a watson type of concern. they only ever talked about the dad being crazy and the satisfaction of sending the murderer in prison despite the prescriptive period, which all in all felt incredibly tone deaf to me. they didnt express any tiny bit of remorse. it feels like it could have been a lesson well learnt about their ego and not treating victims in such a dismissing way no matter how much they're having on their plate.

Season 5 episode 16

I've been trying to piece together Joan's professional timeline, but I think there's a contradiction.

In 2006, Joan was still working as a surgeon. We know this because she operated on Shinwell after he was injured in connection with the SBK gang.

However, at the beginning of Season 5, Episode 1, Joan mentions a former client she helped who is about to receive her ten-year sobriety medallion.

As a sober companion, Joan's job was to support people after they left rehab, helping them maintain their sobriety and adjust to everyday life. Sherlock's case clearly illustrates this: Joan was hired to accompany him after he completed his rehabilitation programme.

So, if Joan helped this woman at the beginning of her recovery, she must have been working as a sober companion around ten years earlier, in 2006.

But that would mean she was already a sober companion while she was still working as a surgeon.

The timing becomes even more difficult to reconcile when we consider what happened in 2009, when Joan lost a patient during surgery. The hospital would presumably have conducted an investigation, followed by her suspension. Then there was the legal case brought by the patient's widow, which would likely have taken several months to resolve.

Only after all this would Joan realistically have been able to move on to working as a sober companion.

And there's another timeline issue: Joan is approaching her fifth anniversary as an investigator in Season 5, which places the beginning of her investigative career around 2011.

Am I missing something, or is this simply a continuity error in the show's timeline?

One of the few series-wide complaints I have is that Sherlock's voice is so much quieter than the other's and often delivered in a way that's kind of mumbly. I can always understand the other characters just fine. Turning it up doesn't help because it just makes the ambient sounds and background music louder. It can be so frustrating.

I LOVE NATALIE DORMER! SHE WAS AMAZING FOR THE ROLE OF MORIARTY! I wish I could see more of her story. Something about her becoming a criminal mastermind, as well as more about her relationship with Sherlock and her various business dealings, hehe. It's a pity that there was so little of her in the series, I often rewatch the last episode of the first season and 12 ep of the second season! And I really like their dynamics with Sherlock, they look soooo good. I NEED MORE MORIARTY, where to sign the petition? :D

Is this the first instance of Sherlock saying "the game is afoot"? I feel like it's the first.

In S02.E07-"The Marchioness" an irregular character, with distinctly epicurean proclivities, arrives in the context of expanding their empire with a new establishment to be named "Diogenes".

What/Who/Why now?

Not, as I'd first thought, 'Dionysus' the Greek God of Wine, Fecundity & Theatre (co-opted as Bachus / Liber by The Romans), which could've been appropriate, but instead "The Cynic" amongst the ancient Greek thinky/do-ey types.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
This a key aspect of Sherlock's character IMNSHO, plus other similarities; a healthy / pragmatic  disrespect for authority, being not so much 'Of The World' but still 'Worldly', unorthodox street theatre with purpose & warehousing old cold case files etc.

There IS a confirming clue in the early dialogue, with Ancient Greece rather randomly being mentioned. Or not.

Also; it turns out to be ACD canon- https://www.reddit.com/r/elementary/comments/1x4y70s/which_conan_doyle_nod_in_elementary_took_you/ & possible inspiration for SH Inktober- https://www.reddit.com/r/elementary/comments/1wu0zzq/sherlock_holmes_inktober/ .

Funny Bits:
- A dichotomy between two instances of inter-gender greetings. "It's European!".
- Sherlock almost visibly biting his tongue after a reproachful look from his partner, although he only briely abstains from cutting comments (the ep starts in an NA meeting).

Other could be clever bits:
-As 1/2 explained in show, a 'Marchioness' is the "Her Indoors" of a Marquis (as in de Sade), the titled local guvna of a 'March', ie a border-land / buffer region, as in historical DenMARK or The Welsh Marches. This Marchioness was indeed 'in between' & a key actor here is Welsh (properly so in "Notting Hill" (1999)).
- A Nigella in a foodie & plummy Brit setting (ie not quite N. Lawson).
- It seems unlikely there's any 'March of Loudwater' in Suffolk (the UK County) as it has a pretty flat landscape, while Sherlock's contribution to an open discussion at NA was partly about the noisesome nature of our times.

Speaking of cynicism / skepticism, there's a slight Sherlock semblance with the 2002 UK, not renewed, telly series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_Nothing .
A late Rick Mayall joint; the whacky adventures of another Egghead in a Shadowy World, with his actual valet Brian Albumen (Get it? x2).
I remember that it was funny & twisty enough, but quite OTT in premise & dramaturgy.

The image is Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" (1904) which could be influenced by Ancient / Classical Greek statuary & philosophers via The Italian Renaissance (the orange masked TMNT), & anyway, "The Over Thinker" renderings are more Dali & The Mummy.
I was gunna go with a diagram of Pythagoras Theorem, but that'd've been too (two) 'oblique'.

Completely forgotten the character name, but she played Cuddy in House MD. It's the episode with the bomb going off via a pager, in an air vent.

Sherlock sees the crossword and says something about her also being an addict, but I can't remember how he spots it. Is it by the crossword?

ETA: Got my answer, thank you! (Please know I've turned off the reply notifications as I can't lock the post)