Elementary 3.06
Dec. 7th, 2014 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakMy, err, usual way of watching Elementary is no more, alas, it seems, but an old alternative still exists. Which is good because I continue to be entranced by this season.
Joan and Kitty making Clyde and Sherlock jokes: way to make me love an episode from the start. :) No, but really. This one very much continued with the created family theme, in which Mum and Dad argue about how to handle Daughter. A bit like with Gregson and his daughter in the previous episode, while the way Sherlock expressed his protectiveness of Kitty (i.e. interfering with her social life by keeping her too busy) was deemed wrong, the fact he feels it in the first place was presented as understandable, given what happened to her. Again: this show does the negotiation of boundaries theme so well. So the solution is not just Sherlock listening to Joan, stopping said interference and talking with Kitty about it, but Kitty revealing her own ambiguity about the prospect of dating again, and her awareness of just what Sherlock was doing and why (because she's not a child, she's an adult woman and very capable detective in training). Sherlock offering an entymologist museum/exhibition outing as a shared social encounter with Kitty and her potential young man at the end cracked me up because it's so very him (will we ever find out what became of the bees when he left NY, I wonder?), but it's also one of those quiet notes of intimate grace the show does so well.
The case of the week involving maps the way it did felt very ACD to me, but as is more often than not the case isn't what the show's about, though Joan, Kitty and Sherlock all got the chance to show their stuff. Sherlock posing online as Amber to lure information out of a source continues the Sherlock and online kink theme we've had since season 1. And speaking of continuity, hooray for an MS Hudson mention! (Now if we could get the woman herself back on screen...) Good to know she's pointing library related cases the way of Holmes & Watson. Since you're doing dialogue references to off screen characters, show: still waiting for an explanation as to what became of Randy, and what Alfredo thinks of Sherlock's skeedaddling. But otherwise, you're pleasing me tremendously with Kitty-Joan-Sherlock makeshift familyness.
Joan and Kitty making Clyde and Sherlock jokes: way to make me love an episode from the start. :) No, but really. This one very much continued with the created family theme, in which Mum and Dad argue about how to handle Daughter. A bit like with Gregson and his daughter in the previous episode, while the way Sherlock expressed his protectiveness of Kitty (i.e. interfering with her social life by keeping her too busy) was deemed wrong, the fact he feels it in the first place was presented as understandable, given what happened to her. Again: this show does the negotiation of boundaries theme so well. So the solution is not just Sherlock listening to Joan, stopping said interference and talking with Kitty about it, but Kitty revealing her own ambiguity about the prospect of dating again, and her awareness of just what Sherlock was doing and why (because she's not a child, she's an adult woman and very capable detective in training). Sherlock offering an entymologist museum/exhibition outing as a shared social encounter with Kitty and her potential young man at the end cracked me up because it's so very him (will we ever find out what became of the bees when he left NY, I wonder?), but it's also one of those quiet notes of intimate grace the show does so well.
The case of the week involving maps the way it did felt very ACD to me, but as is more often than not the case isn't what the show's about, though Joan, Kitty and Sherlock all got the chance to show their stuff. Sherlock posing online as Amber to lure information out of a source continues the Sherlock and online kink theme we've had since season 1. And speaking of continuity, hooray for an MS Hudson mention! (Now if we could get the woman herself back on screen...) Good to know she's pointing library related cases the way of Holmes & Watson. Since you're doing dialogue references to off screen characters, show: still waiting for an explanation as to what became of Randy, and what Alfredo thinks of Sherlock's skeedaddling. But otherwise, you're pleasing me tremendously with Kitty-Joan-Sherlock makeshift familyness.
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Date: 2014-12-07 11:49 am (UTC)I wish Kitty would date Bell, if only to give him something to do.
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Date: 2014-12-07 12:21 pm (UTC)I look forward to Ms. Hudson's on screen return then!
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Date: 2014-12-07 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-07 03:33 pm (UTC)I'm continuing to love the integration of Kitty into the family.
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Date: 2014-12-07 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-12-07 04:32 pm (UTC)