OMG I'm rewatching The Empty Hearse and I cannot believe the number of stupid decisions the writers made.
Mycroft letting some crook beat his little brother to a pulp without interfering (and referring to Sherlock's mission as 'a holiday' immediately after), Sherlock himself apparently being totally chill with being tortured, Sherlock continuously deriding and patronising John once he's back (this is just extreme by any measure), Mrs Hudson reacting completely out of character to everything that happens: apparently believing that Sherlock and John had been in a romantic relationship (how??), hysterically screaming her lungs out when Sherlock comes back, etc.
It's just such a long list of stupid, and painful decisions (and I'm only halfway the ep).
The positive side of this being that I've now become even more motivated to write a fix-it fic of this episode: an alternate reunion scene and how things go from there, if only Sherlock had returned one day earlier…!
To Be Continued…
