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I’m pretty certain all his diagnoses come from him doing medicine? By which I mean gathering information, ordering tests, trying...

I’m not stuck so much on his being a bad doctor, it’s that he’s a bad doctor but he’s a successful one in terms of diagnosing and...

@jian Totally get you’re always gonna hate House, which is fine. But it sure seems like you’re stuck on, this is a totally nonsensical...

Defending House certainly wasn’t on my EnWorld bingo card for today, but here goes anyway. First, yes, it was part of middle aged white...

As in House himself, presumably? But otherwise, yeah, that sounds reasonable. (I understand he hates the clinics Cuddy makes him do...

The portrayal of Holmes's that does most justice to the full mix of traits, I think, is Jeremy Brett’s. His Holmes is aristocratic and...

Yes, he’s very good. His Watson is also well balanced and representative - energetic, resourceful, not an idiot. Basil Rathbone’s Holmes...

“I want a great detective! “Shush- we have a great detective at Holmes!”

I think their argument was that Holmes is nicer (and more likely to laugh, presumably) in the last 12 stories (collectively The Casebook...

Which again is silly, Holmes laughs as much as anyone else in the stories.

Same here, but I read a lot of Wodehouse as a kid (I strongly suspect that doing so was formative to my ideas about masculinity).

Well, in Sherlock you have the issue that Holmes (and his sublings) are clearly intended to be neurodivergent (spelled out pretty...

It’s not at all bad (the whole trilogy is good) though my favourite is the sequel, The Wyvern’s Spur, which is just really good at the P...

My favourite AU as a meme.