# Sherlock vs The Watershed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263 "2012-01-12T05:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/21 "2012-01-13T14:37:37Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Should probably spoiler-box this stuff. But in anycase, there isn’t any “the story” here, the new Sherlock series takes some elements from the Doyle stories, but they aren’t really pretending to be re-tellings of the stories the episodes are named after. > > Also, I don’t really care about what the BBC shows or doesn’t at what hour, but there were some raised eyebrows in the Cafe Society thread on the episode by our British Dopers, so apparently the episode was noticeably more raunchy then is usual at that timeslot. It wasn’t purely made up by the tabloids. Hate to double-post, but I can’t edit my previous post because I waited too long. On TV, “Scandal” had Irene winning, just as she did in the story; but the TV show continued, instead of having her leave the country to hide her wicked, wicked past, accompanied by her nice lawyer hubbie. And I can’t find any raised eyebrows in our other _Sherlock_ thread… ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/22 "2012-01-13T14:47:21Z")
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**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/23 "2012-01-13T14:52:41Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > And I can’t find any raised eyebrows in our other _Sherlock_ thread… was thinking of this > [@Is Benedict Cumberbatch the best (gay or not) Sherlock Holmes ever?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-benedict-cumberbatch-the-best-gay-or-not-sherlock-holmes-ever/607926/30): > > I downloaded it off iPlayer, and didn’t realise that it broadcast at ten past eight! That probably pushed the boundary of what they could get away with at that time of the day! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/24 "2012-01-13T15:08:05Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > was thinking of this That was a grin, not a raised eyebrow. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/25 "2012-01-13T15:22:10Z")
> [@PrettyVacant](#): > > Remind me? Her measurements (343234, IIRC) were the combination to the safe. She was doing it to taunt him, to see if he was worthy of her trust. Of course, it was also to measure the character of he and Watson, and to keep them off-guard. Like I said, part of the plot. And tasteful, IMO. You saw less actual skin than if she was wearing a bikini, though admittedly, your mind fills in a lot for you. ---
**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/26 "2012-01-13T16:48:11Z")
She took her clothes off to taunt him. And to “measure his character”. So, nothing to do with Moffatt’s general bling style, which also included carrying Watson off in a black Gov helicpoter, a pointless meeting at Buckingham Palace, the pointless - but so very Moffatt - boomerang death, Battersea Power Staion, the meeting with Mycroft in a plance full of dead people, and so very much more. Bling, bling and more bling. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/27 "2012-01-13T18:35:26Z")
It’s better to have a style than to have nothing… (Are all the Moffat haters convinced that if he went away they’d get _their_ Doctor back?) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263/28 "2012-01-14T02:28:21Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > (Are all the Moffat haters convinced that if he went away they’d get _their_ Doctor back?) I sometimes wonder. But then Matt Smith goes Pure Awesome and I forget about the DT fans in the house. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-vs-the-watershed/609263.md?page=1)