and now that I've finished watching...

I have such a love-hate relationship with Moffat's writing, you don't even know. I do love how clever his plotting can be. And I love so many of the character moments (I would watch the Holmes brothers interacting FOREVER, and, yeah, Martin Freeman has an amazing face). And then I think about the ways in which he writes women and I get angry all over again. Even with the female characters I really quite love, like Mary. Other people have summed it up way better than I can, and I'm not gonna get into that again here, but, okay, here's a very spoilery theory about Mary Morstan that makes excellent reading and that I agree with 100%, and ( spoilers )