Sherlock and Daughter "The Challenge" (S01E01) "The Common Thread (S01E02) (spoilers)

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It's not awful. David Thewlis is much better than the material. Alas,
Blu Hunt is not.

Need a ruling here: If you grew up in the suburbs, can you truly claim
your native heritage? Her hair is gorgeous. She was 28 during production
and looks much much younger.

My complaint about the Amelia character is that she's barely
investigating. She's largely following instinct, then encounters
something by coincidence that advances the plot. She's a plot device,
not a character. In fact, Sherlock said so in a line of dialogue.

The writers are lazy.

Nice to see Ivana Milicevic again. I miss her (slightly covered) nude
scenes in Banshee. Her body was lithe and tight thanks to all the fight
training she had.

Did I miss an explanation for how the hell Clara met Charlie? Also, if
her father went bust in a railroad scandal (it's two decades too late to
have been Jay Gould and the Erie scandal, and if this is 1898, it's too
late for the Panic of 1893 which sunk a lot of railroad stock), there's
no fucking way he'd be ambassador as he'd be subject to foreign
influence.

I'm trying to wrap my brain around the idea of a chop shop for
carriages, but can't. There's pretty much as much labor involved in
chopping them up and re-assembling them as there would be in building
new carriages.

Why has Amelia failed to tell Sherlock of her two encounters with the
bobbie on patrol? Obviously he tipped off the crooks. Hell, he's
watching Sherlock's house.

The size of the house bothers the hell out of me. It's a great house,
and I guess we're supposed to think Belgravia except the house facades
being used in Dublin are from a century earlier, 1760s. The whole thing
is illusion. The real street is much narrower. She's crossing a 60 foot
wide earthen street on tv, then in a separate shot, we see the facade of
the houses, so I assume there's an outdoor set with the muddy street.

Sherlock was comfortable (he certainly didn't overspend on lodging) but not
wealthy, and could not possibly afford the lease on such a house. Sherlock
never had servants. Since when do servants question their employer? And
the kidnapped Mrs. Hudson is also a servant?

I guess I'll stick with it; it's just 8 episodes.