Elementary 3.19
Apr. 10th, 2015 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakNow that's more like it again.
Mind you, returning to the "Joan shuts herself off" plot would have been even more effective if Joan in the last few episodes (i.e. the ones after the "I realise now I can't have a private life" one) HAD acted noticably different than usual, which I don't think she has, but then again, we didn't see her interact with any of her non-detective friends, solely with her mother and brother. Still, the emotional subplot here, returning to Joan's angst and have Sherlock attempt to be supportive and steer her back to her old self, was fine, and both the first clumsy and self-related speech and the second one - with a great definition of friendship - which does get through to her were very him. If the Holmes and Watson exchange at the end was a bit meta, it wasn't suspense-of-disbelief breakingly so. And like I said, Sherlock's earlier definion of friendship which he said Joan made him achieve - people bringing out the best in each other - is why I dig this particular Holmes & Watson combination so much.
The case of the week worked for me, too, perhaps because the FBI and right wing "Think Tank" shadiness appeals to my inner grumpy leftist. And the principle of using an agent provocateur to steer a group towards radicalisation sadly is one that has been employed repeatedly in my part of the world. Also, as much as I wasn't fond of the episode where EVERYONE made their first appearance, the subsequent use of them as a running gag has been quite entertaining, and so I'm glad they're still around.
Mind you, returning to the "Joan shuts herself off" plot would have been even more effective if Joan in the last few episodes (i.e. the ones after the "I realise now I can't have a private life" one) HAD acted noticably different than usual, which I don't think she has, but then again, we didn't see her interact with any of her non-detective friends, solely with her mother and brother. Still, the emotional subplot here, returning to Joan's angst and have Sherlock attempt to be supportive and steer her back to her old self, was fine, and both the first clumsy and self-related speech and the second one - with a great definition of friendship - which does get through to her were very him. If the Holmes and Watson exchange at the end was a bit meta, it wasn't suspense-of-disbelief breakingly so. And like I said, Sherlock's earlier definion of friendship which he said Joan made him achieve - people bringing out the best in each other - is why I dig this particular Holmes & Watson combination so much.
The case of the week worked for me, too, perhaps because the FBI and right wing "Think Tank" shadiness appeals to my inner grumpy leftist. And the principle of using an agent provocateur to steer a group towards radicalisation sadly is one that has been employed repeatedly in my part of the world. Also, as much as I wasn't fond of the episode where EVERYONE made their first appearance, the subsequent use of them as a running gag has been quite entertaining, and so I'm glad they're still around.
