Rule 1: The Doctor Lies.

An Awful Lot Of Storytelling Isn't Really About Making People Understand - It's About Making People Care.

Nothing Can Ever Be A Rule In Drama, Because Then You're Saying Certain Things Won't Ever Happen, And That Would Be Very Boring.

The Doctor: It's My Nose; It Has Special Powers. Nancy: Yeah? That Why It's So...? The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. The Doctor: What? Nancy: Nothing. Do Your Ears Have Special Powers Too?

Sherlock Holmes Becomes More Human And More Adept At Fitting In With A Lot Of People, But He Remains Separate From The Human Race Because He Finds That A Better Place To Observe That From. He Stays On The Mountain Top Because There, He Can See Clearly.

I Know This Is Going To Sound Very Self-serving, And I Apologize For It, But If You Can Write Comedy, You Can Pretty Much Write Anything, Because It's The Hardest. It's The Most Technically Demanding, The Most Precisely Evaluated Form Of Writing. People Know If It Works Or Not. There's A Big Button Marked 'fail,' And That's When Nobody Laughs.