Elementary 4.16 Hounded
Mar. 12th, 2016 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakAka Elementary adapts the one with the Baskervilles.
As adaptions go, I was amused by a couple of updates, like the hound of the title being split between nice, if glowy dog with fish DNA (we don't believe in phosphor anymore?) and abused killer 'bot, Selden the ex convict being an internet troll and opponent to genetic engineering, and of course two Stapletons, one of them is the secret illegitimate heir and murder, while the other is the red herring. Oh, and the empty pool instead of the moors.
However, it still was just a case of the week, with the heart of the episode being, as with most episodes, in the personal B-Plot. We've seen Eugene the pathologist in a lot of episodes, and it's been established Sherlock gets along well with him. So the follow up to one of the suspension-of-disbelief breaking cases this season (overcomplicated killing/cover-up method via exploding bodies in the morgue) being Eugene's being driven by the trauma of it into self medicating and this getting out of hand could count on the audience already knowing the character. It was lovely continuity, and Sherlock helping him showcased his growth - in s1, he might not have blurted out his conclusions about Eugene in front of everyone (he didn't in a s1 case which co-starred an addict), but he would have just pulled him aside, handed over the address of a clinic (as he did in said s1 case) and that would have been that. Here, he's quietly supportive without letting Eugene fob him off with excuses, and levels with him about his own downward spiral instead of being condescending. It was really well done.
As adaptions go, I was amused by a couple of updates, like the hound of the title being split between nice, if glowy dog with fish DNA (we don't believe in phosphor anymore?) and abused killer 'bot, Selden the ex convict being an internet troll and opponent to genetic engineering, and of course two Stapletons, one of them is the secret illegitimate heir and murder, while the other is the red herring. Oh, and the empty pool instead of the moors.
However, it still was just a case of the week, with the heart of the episode being, as with most episodes, in the personal B-Plot. We've seen Eugene the pathologist in a lot of episodes, and it's been established Sherlock gets along well with him. So the follow up to one of the suspension-of-disbelief breaking cases this season (overcomplicated killing/cover-up method via exploding bodies in the morgue) being Eugene's being driven by the trauma of it into self medicating and this getting out of hand could count on the audience already knowing the character. It was lovely continuity, and Sherlock helping him showcased his growth - in s1, he might not have blurted out his conclusions about Eugene in front of everyone (he didn't in a s1 case which co-starred an addict), but he would have just pulled him aside, handed over the address of a clinic (as he did in said s1 case) and that would have been that. Here, he's quietly supportive without letting Eugene fob him off with excuses, and levels with him about his own downward spiral instead of being condescending. It was really well done.
