Elementary 3.21 and 3.22.
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selenakMore catching up, this time with my favourite Holmes & Watson:
Case of the week: was there ever a non-villainous dentist on tv? Or in the cinema, for that matter. Methinks that profession has reason to resent humanity's resentment at their dentists projected on to them. :) But anyway, the heart of the episode was the Alfredo subplot, which was adorable. Sherlock's solution on how to help Alfredo was a very Sherlock thing to do (and hilarious), while his decision to get another sponsor so Alfredo can be his friend shows how far he's come since the pilot. Note he's not even trying not to use the f-word or trying to avoid professions of friendship. I also liked that Alfredo's cause of distress wasn't falling of the wagon or anything like this (we already did the "friend of Holmes falls of the wagon and overdoses" story last season, and I would miss Alfredo terribly) and utterly ic for him, and that his objection to mingle the roles of sponsor and friend were treated as reasonable. (That, btw, is after all why Joan when her stint as Sherlock's sober companion was drawing to an end searched for a sponsor for him, after all; if their relationship was to continue, she couldn't perform both roles.)
Of course I'm going to miss Alfredo in the sponsor role, but as long as he's still around, we're good, and I'm curious as to whether he'll behave differently with Sherlock now they're on the openly acknowledged "friends" basis.
I dimly knew a lot of American prison facilities are privately owned, but it's never not going to freak me out when it's brought up. I hear you on capitalism at its worst, Holmes. Also, was the culprit of the week an old aquaintance from Heroes or am I misidentifying the actor? And speaking of familiar actors, the red herring of the week looked like Sandra Beeman's actress from The Americans to me, but I could be wrong.
re: emotional subplot of the week, this time it's Marcus Bell's turn. I have to say my sympathies are entirely with Detective Shauna Scott, and not just because I've been watching Between The Lines, where the Internal Affairs characters are the heroes. Especially in the current day, more supervision of misconduct and less esprit de corps among US cops covering up for each other's misdemeanours sounds like a very good idea indeed. This being said, it was a turning the expected cliché around that it was Watson's interference that caused Bell to break up with Scott and Holmes who thereafter gave the "try again, it's worth it" speech. Speaking of which, the two Sherlock and Marcus scenes this episode were a gold mine if you ship them, both the "you are not a magnet and I am not a fork" one and Marcus deciding to spend his free evening with Sherlock. Also, "the love of my life is a homicidal maniac - nobody's perfect" , aside from being a welcome Moriarty reminder, both amused me and made me note Holmes said "is", not "was".
Case of the week: was there ever a non-villainous dentist on tv? Or in the cinema, for that matter. Methinks that profession has reason to resent humanity's resentment at their dentists projected on to them. :) But anyway, the heart of the episode was the Alfredo subplot, which was adorable. Sherlock's solution on how to help Alfredo was a very Sherlock thing to do (and hilarious), while his decision to get another sponsor so Alfredo can be his friend shows how far he's come since the pilot. Note he's not even trying not to use the f-word or trying to avoid professions of friendship. I also liked that Alfredo's cause of distress wasn't falling of the wagon or anything like this (we already did the "friend of Holmes falls of the wagon and overdoses" story last season, and I would miss Alfredo terribly) and utterly ic for him, and that his objection to mingle the roles of sponsor and friend were treated as reasonable. (That, btw, is after all why Joan when her stint as Sherlock's sober companion was drawing to an end searched for a sponsor for him, after all; if their relationship was to continue, she couldn't perform both roles.)
Of course I'm going to miss Alfredo in the sponsor role, but as long as he's still around, we're good, and I'm curious as to whether he'll behave differently with Sherlock now they're on the openly acknowledged "friends" basis.
I dimly knew a lot of American prison facilities are privately owned, but it's never not going to freak me out when it's brought up. I hear you on capitalism at its worst, Holmes. Also, was the culprit of the week an old aquaintance from Heroes or am I misidentifying the actor? And speaking of familiar actors, the red herring of the week looked like Sandra Beeman's actress from The Americans to me, but I could be wrong.
re: emotional subplot of the week, this time it's Marcus Bell's turn. I have to say my sympathies are entirely with Detective Shauna Scott, and not just because I've been watching Between The Lines, where the Internal Affairs characters are the heroes. Especially in the current day, more supervision of misconduct and less esprit de corps among US cops covering up for each other's misdemeanours sounds like a very good idea indeed. This being said, it was a turning the expected cliché around that it was Watson's interference that caused Bell to break up with Scott and Holmes who thereafter gave the "try again, it's worth it" speech. Speaking of which, the two Sherlock and Marcus scenes this episode were a gold mine if you ship them, both the "you are not a magnet and I am not a fork" one and Marcus deciding to spend his free evening with Sherlock. Also, "the love of my life is a homicidal maniac - nobody's perfect" , aside from being a welcome Moriarty reminder, both amused me and made me note Holmes said "is", not "was".
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Date: 2015-05-02 11:55 am (UTC)And sadly, there's privately run (if not owned) prisons in Australia now too.
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Date: 2015-05-02 02:15 pm (UTC)Prisons in Australia: brrr. I don't understand how anyone could ever think that's a good idea, wherever.