Elementary 4.21
Apr. 18th, 2016 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which Joan's newfound career as a SPOILER hits the trope such careers do. Some case of the week also happens.
Case of the week: I really liked Roxanne - and that she got to be right -, otherwise I have no opinion.
Continuing arcs: loved that we saw how our recovering pathologist is doing, and got an update on the Fiona and Sherlock situation (complete with Ms. Hudson mention). That the cat and Fiona, despite Fiona loving cats, didn't work out was a neat realistic touch - cats being particular about which humans they allow to serve them.
:)
But obviously the big continuity development was Joan's attempt to play handler to her blackmailed spy in Morland's office. Incidentally, is the bookstore where the hapless spy wants to meet the same one where Joan met Alistair back in s1? In any case, well versed as Joan is in Mafia stories and superhero tales, she evidently didn't read nearly enough Le Carré, because of course by the end of the episode, her asset is dead. This could make for powerful character drama because no matter whether he was killed by Morland's people or Morland' s competitors whom he used to spy for, Joan forcing him to continue spying led to his death, and now she has blood on her hands. Also bad: because she hid her Morland spying idea, she's started to lie more and more to Sherlock, and I think the episode made it clear he figured that out, he just doesn't know yet why. I foresee partnership angst as well as Joan having to work through guilt - and this is different from the guilt she already is familiar with, her having failed to save a patient in surgery, because there she knows her intentions were to save his life, and her failing to do so was mischance.
Whereas blackmailing someone into spying for you, and insisting they keep doing it despite their openly expressed repeated fear, make for far different guilt. Unless the show takes the easy way out and it turns out the guy was really shot randomly by someone who had no idea who he was, which I hope they won't, I want to see Joan work through this. I also wonder whether we'll see the return of Vigilante Cop in this context?
The scene between Joan and Morland was suitably chilling. Re: him reminding her he owns the house, one of many reasons why I would have loved Sherlock and Joan to take on more private clients and actually find an apartment they pay rent for, but Elementary loves its Brownstone location too much. Still, it's a bit hypocritical to keep going "that Morland, he's the worst, but he finances our living".
Case of the week: I really liked Roxanne - and that she got to be right -, otherwise I have no opinion.
Continuing arcs: loved that we saw how our recovering pathologist is doing, and got an update on the Fiona and Sherlock situation (complete with Ms. Hudson mention). That the cat and Fiona, despite Fiona loving cats, didn't work out was a neat realistic touch - cats being particular about which humans they allow to serve them.
:)
But obviously the big continuity development was Joan's attempt to play handler to her blackmailed spy in Morland's office. Incidentally, is the bookstore where the hapless spy wants to meet the same one where Joan met Alistair back in s1? In any case, well versed as Joan is in Mafia stories and superhero tales, she evidently didn't read nearly enough Le Carré, because of course by the end of the episode, her asset is dead. This could make for powerful character drama because no matter whether he was killed by Morland's people or Morland' s competitors whom he used to spy for, Joan forcing him to continue spying led to his death, and now she has blood on her hands. Also bad: because she hid her Morland spying idea, she's started to lie more and more to Sherlock, and I think the episode made it clear he figured that out, he just doesn't know yet why. I foresee partnership angst as well as Joan having to work through guilt - and this is different from the guilt she already is familiar with, her having failed to save a patient in surgery, because there she knows her intentions were to save his life, and her failing to do so was mischance.
Whereas blackmailing someone into spying for you, and insisting they keep doing it despite their openly expressed repeated fear, make for far different guilt. Unless the show takes the easy way out and it turns out the guy was really shot randomly by someone who had no idea who he was, which I hope they won't, I want to see Joan work through this. I also wonder whether we'll see the return of Vigilante Cop in this context?
The scene between Joan and Morland was suitably chilling. Re: him reminding her he owns the house, one of many reasons why I would have loved Sherlock and Joan to take on more private clients and actually find an apartment they pay rent for, but Elementary loves its Brownstone location too much. Still, it's a bit hypocritical to keep going "that Morland, he's the worst, but he finances our living".
