Elementary 4.12.
Feb. 13th, 2016 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakOkay, biggest regret of the episode: that it wasn't really a heist episode! I enjoyed that early planning with the dolls, and would have loved watching Sherlock, Joan and friends pull off an information-retrieving heist on the biker gang headquarters. And it would have been in best ACD tradition, too, because the original Scandal in Bohemia challenge to Holmes is to figure out where Irene Adler hides the incriminating photograph of the King and herself and to retrieve it. But alas, no heist, and yet another murder instead. This being said, I enjoyed the episode as it was, too, and it did manage to tentatively sell me on the idea of Sherlock going out with Fiona, whose return I had not anticipated (I thought she'd been a one off character, so when the previouslies showed her, I was delighted). Also, Joan's right, a first edition of T.S.Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is practically a signed oonfession on Sherlock's part. :)
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Date: 2016-02-15 05:25 pm (UTC)ETA: It also worked because there was no indication of Fiona and Sherlock being perfect for each other, nor intimations of foreverness, but Joan saying that Sherlock needs to stop worrying about the end before it even starts helped make that scene work for me.
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Date: 2016-02-16 04:28 am (UTC)I am normally not a fan of characters saying "you and X would be good together!" But in this case, it really worked,
Agreed on all counts (I'm usually not a fan of such scenes, either) and your reasoning why this one worked so well. I would add that it was clever to have Fiona her initial scenes with Joan, which indicates the two women will form a friendship as well - new additions to the show always work best when the characters get to have interesting relationships with both our heroes.