Elementary 4.09
Jan. 22nd, 2016 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakOh Robert Hewitt Wolfe, valued DS9 veteran of a scriptwriter, are you by any chance reading my mind?
I mean: Morland interacting with Joan, not Sherlock – check. Morland having a health problem – check. (Though I wouldn’t be surprised if he staged Joan’s discovery of same, given how very deliberately he took those vitamins in front of her.) Mycroft mention and acknowledgment not only that he exists but what happened in season 2 – check. THANK YOU, SHOW. You don’t have to mention Mycroft again this season (unless it would be odd not to in context), continuity acknowledgment was all I wanted. Now if we introduce Morland to the rest of the ensemble during his next appearance, my Elementary wish list shall be almost complete.
Case of the week: had me frowning a few times because the annexation of the Crimea and the Russian/Ukrainian war are v.v. hot topics over here, and I was afraid Elementary would commit the foreign policy equivalent of its abominable Snowden bashing/US secret services glorification in season 2 (never forgotten, that horse shall never die), but no, they didn’t. Also I asked my car mad Aged Parent whether you could really kill someone by hacking into a car software, etc., and he said you could. Not exactly reassuring, that one. Anyway, what I liked most about the case of the week was Sherlock bribing his modern day Baker Street Irregular with rare action figures and his non pushy, tactful approach with the cat loving autistic software developer. (Was very relieved she remained the genuine article and wasn’t suddenly revealed as having faked her condition. Every now and then Elementary has these guest characters who have a handicap but were still able to build a life for themselves, and I appreciate that.) And speaking of guest characters, go, show, for avoiding the obvious trope with the Russian spy in stripper disguise. I liked that Sherlock really had no interest in either blowing her cover or anything but the information he needed, and that after she realized this, she provided said information without further ado. (The earlier chat with Bell and Bell’s face when Sherlock went away with the Russian were also priceless.)
Lastly, re: case of the week, I loved Sherlock and Joan telling said Baker Street Irregular why figuring out the truth about a murder is important even if the target was a Russian mobster oligarch and his equally assassinated assassins were Ukrainian hit men. One of the things I love about Elementary most of the time: its ethics.
Now, Morland. The invitation to dinner at a gourmet restaurant was so similar to Mycroft’s initial approach to Joan that I was ready to write a longer than usual complaint about Elementary repeating itself and pretending it didn’t, and that that hadn’t been what I had meant about more Joan and Morland interaction, but lo and behold, not only did we finally get Mycroft mentions (and while Sherlock commenting on Joan’s sex life will never be not annoying, in this particular context it made sense he brought this up and wouldn’t have made sense if he hadn’t) by Sherlock, Joan and Morland, but Morland really did not have any romantic intentions but ostensibly medical ones, though actually, I suspect, setting Joan and through her Sherlock up for finding out about his being currently an assassination target, because he doesn’t want to ask for help, being himself, yet knows our valiant duo will come through if they find out on their lonesome. He probably also has an additional agenda and might have had someone else assassinated first, thereby causing retaliation, but anyway: I look forward to find out more.
In conclusion: I am one satisfied viewer. Roll on, next week.
I mean: Morland interacting with Joan, not Sherlock – check. Morland having a health problem – check. (Though I wouldn’t be surprised if he staged Joan’s discovery of same, given how very deliberately he took those vitamins in front of her.) Mycroft mention and acknowledgment not only that he exists but what happened in season 2 – check. THANK YOU, SHOW. You don’t have to mention Mycroft again this season (unless it would be odd not to in context), continuity acknowledgment was all I wanted. Now if we introduce Morland to the rest of the ensemble during his next appearance, my Elementary wish list shall be almost complete.
Case of the week: had me frowning a few times because the annexation of the Crimea and the Russian/Ukrainian war are v.v. hot topics over here, and I was afraid Elementary would commit the foreign policy equivalent of its abominable Snowden bashing/US secret services glorification in season 2 (never forgotten, that horse shall never die), but no, they didn’t. Also I asked my car mad Aged Parent whether you could really kill someone by hacking into a car software, etc., and he said you could. Not exactly reassuring, that one. Anyway, what I liked most about the case of the week was Sherlock bribing his modern day Baker Street Irregular with rare action figures and his non pushy, tactful approach with the cat loving autistic software developer. (Was very relieved she remained the genuine article and wasn’t suddenly revealed as having faked her condition. Every now and then Elementary has these guest characters who have a handicap but were still able to build a life for themselves, and I appreciate that.) And speaking of guest characters, go, show, for avoiding the obvious trope with the Russian spy in stripper disguise. I liked that Sherlock really had no interest in either blowing her cover or anything but the information he needed, and that after she realized this, she provided said information without further ado. (The earlier chat with Bell and Bell’s face when Sherlock went away with the Russian were also priceless.)
Lastly, re: case of the week, I loved Sherlock and Joan telling said Baker Street Irregular why figuring out the truth about a murder is important even if the target was a Russian mobster oligarch and his equally assassinated assassins were Ukrainian hit men. One of the things I love about Elementary most of the time: its ethics.
Now, Morland. The invitation to dinner at a gourmet restaurant was so similar to Mycroft’s initial approach to Joan that I was ready to write a longer than usual complaint about Elementary repeating itself and pretending it didn’t, and that that hadn’t been what I had meant about more Joan and Morland interaction, but lo and behold, not only did we finally get Mycroft mentions (and while Sherlock commenting on Joan’s sex life will never be not annoying, in this particular context it made sense he brought this up and wouldn’t have made sense if he hadn’t) by Sherlock, Joan and Morland, but Morland really did not have any romantic intentions but ostensibly medical ones, though actually, I suspect, setting Joan and through her Sherlock up for finding out about his being currently an assassination target, because he doesn’t want to ask for help, being himself, yet knows our valiant duo will come through if they find out on their lonesome. He probably also has an additional agenda and might have had someone else assassinated first, thereby causing retaliation, but anyway: I look forward to find out more.
In conclusion: I am one satisfied viewer. Roll on, next week.
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