[AnotherUnixGeek]

And Watson is cast as straight, and Holmes as more of an intellectual eunuch, in that he has an indifference to sex. He seemed to be attracted to the woman in the last episode, but was attracted more to her intellect than her sex appeal.

That was exactly the impression I got, and that aspect is quite true to the characters as Arthur Conan Doyle wrote them. Doyle's John Watson was a straight man, while Holmes simply had no interest in sex of any sort - he lived solely for intellectual challenges and filled the empty spaces in his life with cocaine and depression. And Irene Adler fascinated him in the written story, as she did in the new show.

[Excellence]

The way Holmes said, "The Woman," gave away her meaning to him.

"Ah!"