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Elementary 3.02
Episode 2 of the third season is good as well; if this keeps up, I shall say we're over the s2 sophomore slump. Also, count me on the pro Kitty side of the force.
I was a bit spoiled because![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
abigail_n told me last week that Kitty Winter is actually a character from the ACD story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, who avenges herself for the horrible abuse she's undergone, so while Elementary would not follow that to the latter, it stood to reason this Kitty, too, would have suffered backstory trauma. Which makes Elementarys Sherlock's adoption of her as a protegé actually far less about his missing Joan issues and definitely a logical follow up to his development through the previous two seasons: his instinctive sympathy for abused victims (which even early really s1 Sherlock showed), and in s2 his becoming a sponsor (though the show should give us a dialogue line as to what happened to Randy after Sherlock left town) , his reaction to the abused patricide, whom his old pen pal went to prison for, and his guilt over Lestrade. Mentoring Kitty, giving her the chance to channel what happened into moving forward and solving crimes instead of becoming a criminal/avenger herself, grows from all of this.
Bell observes that Kitty is intense and that while Joan used to stablilize Sherlock, someone like Kitty wouldn't, but he's casting Kitty as Joan here, whereas Sherlock, despite his talk in the last episode about replicating the detective teaching experience, here he early on confesses to Joan Kitty actually reminded him of his younger self. (Which, though he doesn't say it, puts him in the Joan role.) He's not the only one; Kitty does share some traits with early Sherlock while being her own character. And he's actually not a bad teacher to/for her. Loved that Joan didn't read the file, though and offered it back to her, only reading it when Kitty gave her permission, while Kitty through the episode works through insecurity re: Joan to deciding to learn from her and now is studying Joan's and Sherlock's old cases. It's another case of this show having respect for all its characters instead of treating Kitty as a prop to illustrate Joan's superiority.
V.v. amused by the first Holmes and Bell conversation. Also by Marcus Bell's attempts to make casual conversation with Kitty, only for Kitty and the writers gettting a dig about the insane US gun laws in.
"So I guess you guys have fewer gunshot victims in London, huh?"
"Most countries do."
Case of the week: was an avarage case of the week, though I liked the ambitious State Attorney actually making a good case for herself (as Holmes and Watson concede), proving why she was so successful at her job to begin with.
I was a bit spoiled because
abigail_n told me last week that Kitty Winter is actually a character from the ACD story The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, who avenges herself for the horrible abuse she's undergone, so while Elementary would not follow that to the latter, it stood to reason this Kitty, too, would have suffered backstory trauma. Which makes Elementarys Sherlock's adoption of her as a protegé actually far less about his missing Joan issues and definitely a logical follow up to his development through the previous two seasons: his instinctive sympathy for abused victims (which even early really s1 Sherlock showed), and in s2 his becoming a sponsor (though the show should give us a dialogue line as to what happened to Randy after Sherlock left town) , his reaction to the abused patricide, whom his old pen pal went to prison for, and his guilt over Lestrade. Mentoring Kitty, giving her the chance to channel what happened into moving forward and solving crimes instead of becoming a criminal/avenger herself, grows from all of this. Bell observes that Kitty is intense and that while Joan used to stablilize Sherlock, someone like Kitty wouldn't, but he's casting Kitty as Joan here, whereas Sherlock, despite his talk in the last episode about replicating the detective teaching experience, here he early on confesses to Joan Kitty actually reminded him of his younger self. (Which, though he doesn't say it, puts him in the Joan role.) He's not the only one; Kitty does share some traits with early Sherlock while being her own character. And he's actually not a bad teacher to/for her. Loved that Joan didn't read the file, though and offered it back to her, only reading it when Kitty gave her permission, while Kitty through the episode works through insecurity re: Joan to deciding to learn from her and now is studying Joan's and Sherlock's old cases. It's another case of this show having respect for all its characters instead of treating Kitty as a prop to illustrate Joan's superiority.
V.v. amused by the first Holmes and Bell conversation. Also by Marcus Bell's attempts to make casual conversation with Kitty, only for Kitty and the writers gettting a dig about the insane US gun laws in.
"So I guess you guys have fewer gunshot victims in London, huh?"
"Most countries do."
Case of the week: was an avarage case of the week, though I liked the ambitious State Attorney actually making a good case for herself (as Holmes and Watson concede), proving why she was so successful at her job to begin with.
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