I think the problem with "No strong women characters" could easily be solved if there were more than three episodes per series. If it were a twelve or even a twenty episode series then there would be plenty of time to create and show terrific women characters. But as is, with only three episodes, the writers are going to focus on Holmes and Watson and very little of anyone else because they have to. Otherwise it wouldn't be "Sherlock" it would be more like "Arthur Conan Doyle's World of Mystery" or some nonsense like that.

In short, I guess I am saying I want more than three episodes per series, dagnabbit. (Mind you, I guess we are lucky that we getting any additional series since "Sherlock" is a co-production between BBC and PBS. And with the Republicans going after PBS funding, I don't know how long we are going to be able to get more episodes.)