[Asila]

I will grant you that the only true and ultimate Holmes foe should be Moriarty--and the whole Stapleton thing seemed a bit Mary Sueish on the villian end (I'm a handsome, fiendishly intelligent man who happens to be the long lost secret heir! And I know the moors like the back of my hand! mwahahaha)--but please don't be one of those Irene Adler people. If I hear one more person positing that surely Irene was just the lurve of his life (or that he even needed a love, he's Holmes!) then I'm going to jam a sharpened pencil into my eye.