Elementary 4.10
Jan. 29th, 2016 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakETA: just spotted that Paul Cornell has written an episode of Elementary this season which will broadcast in April (see article here). Yay! says the Doctor Who fan in me.
On to this week's episode, in which the scriptwriters introduce me to a new scam which I fear might be all too grounded in reality.
Not the recruitment of assassins part (I hope!), but the whole fake/flimsy college/getting students in debts while not even offering good education/exploit them afterwards principle. Since few things make our heroes as angry as the rich and powerful preying on people like that, it also fit with previous show examples.
Meanwhile, in the ongoing Morland arc: as I had guessed, there was an alternate explanation for the scene with Morland and the Interpol agent, but to my great relief the alternate explanation wasn't the same was with Mycroft, i.e. it wasn't about being a spy and/or protecting Sherlock. Morland actually having regarded Sherlock as a suspect in the question who tried to kill him was something I hadn't expected, and which yet makes absolutely sense; it showcases the deep dysfunctionality of the relationship like the prevous standard daddy issues stuff hasn't, and suddenly I find myself getting invested. Plus Sherlock's anger being focused not on the suspicion of intended patricide but on the idea that he'd a) organize an assassination at all, b) then be sloppy enough to be seen near the place, and c) not manage to successfully pull it off was perfect. Mind you, I don't buy that his final decision to find the real culprit was all about the slur on his professional reputation (he would say that); the gesture with the honey was too childishly resentful for that. But still: this is the first episode which sold me on the father-son relationship as something specific to these two people rather than being a collection of standard narrative tropes. Oh, and the scene with Morland's final explanation/apology was John Noble at his best, selling me on Morland's sincerity (re: Sherlock, not necessarily about the causes of the assassination attempt etc.).
On to this week's episode, in which the scriptwriters introduce me to a new scam which I fear might be all too grounded in reality.
Not the recruitment of assassins part (I hope!), but the whole fake/flimsy college/getting students in debts while not even offering good education/exploit them afterwards principle. Since few things make our heroes as angry as the rich and powerful preying on people like that, it also fit with previous show examples.
Meanwhile, in the ongoing Morland arc: as I had guessed, there was an alternate explanation for the scene with Morland and the Interpol agent, but to my great relief the alternate explanation wasn't the same was with Mycroft, i.e. it wasn't about being a spy and/or protecting Sherlock. Morland actually having regarded Sherlock as a suspect in the question who tried to kill him was something I hadn't expected, and which yet makes absolutely sense; it showcases the deep dysfunctionality of the relationship like the prevous standard daddy issues stuff hasn't, and suddenly I find myself getting invested. Plus Sherlock's anger being focused not on the suspicion of intended patricide but on the idea that he'd a) organize an assassination at all, b) then be sloppy enough to be seen near the place, and c) not manage to successfully pull it off was perfect. Mind you, I don't buy that his final decision to find the real culprit was all about the slur on his professional reputation (he would say that); the gesture with the honey was too childishly resentful for that. But still: this is the first episode which sold me on the father-son relationship as something specific to these two people rather than being a collection of standard narrative tropes. Oh, and the scene with Morland's final explanation/apology was John Noble at his best, selling me on Morland's sincerity (re: Sherlock, not necessarily about the causes of the assassination attempt etc.).
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Date: 2016-01-29 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-02-13 11:29 am (UTC)It was a good Morland & Sherlock episode, which I have rather been hoping to see, even if it did involve murder and general shadiness. The two levels of their relationship - professional pride and familial feelings - worked perfectly against each other all through the episode.
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Date: 2016-02-13 03:29 pm (UTC)And good to know that the rl victims in the Australian case won't have to pay.