I just want to draw your attention to something I noticed on Sherlock last night. It’s only small, and barely worth a blog entry really, but I’ll probably be smiling about it for weeks. In all I found the episode supremely well-written and a joy to watch, but towards the end, when everything is over and they are talking in the security services, Mycroft Holmes says something about Needing sherlock to be a sharp instrument, whereas ‘one of his colleagues’ speaks ‘fondly’ about needing ‘blunt instruments’. I squealled with glee when I heard that line! Who could he be talking about? Who is referred to as ‘a blunt instrument’? Why, 007 himself! That makes Mycroft’s colleague M. It’s only a slight, inconsequential allusion, but I found it glorious. It is so simple, yet so witty. Sherlock and Bond exist in the same universe there could even be a crossover, but I doubt it, although stranger things have happened. Either way, this simple, subtle allusion pleases me enough. I don’t know why I like such things – perhaps it is the simple satisfaction of ‘getting it’ – but it’ll probably have me smiling for days.