Elementary 1.17
Feb. 24th, 2013 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakWith some delay due to a Berlin & Bamberg trip, I'm back to catching up on current tv.
It wasn't as good an episode as the two previous ones, plus there really should have been some wrap up on poor Mr. Leyden and his late chauffeur, but there was still a lot to enjoy. Points for originality to Leyden & the script for letting the client try to bribe Holmes via a rare bee. That was great. And not just funny, because while Holmes was definitely over the moon at the prospect of the bee he still, when not believing the client had a case, stood by his principles and took the bee only once he had actual reason to believe Leyden was on to something. He also was respectful and emphatic (in a Holmesian restrained way) to the tragedy of Leyden and the others who'd been poisoned (and the death of the chauffeur; btw, I did notice that Leyden when talking about the man mentioned having helped him and his partner to adopt a child, which I take it means they were a same-sex couple).
THe dry-cleaning subplot could have had an unpleasant aftertaste despite being a case for Watson to show her abilities IF not for for Holmes actually cleaning the fridge (unasked, that's important) and thus keeping his part of the housemates duties. Mind you, having now marathoned The Wire and watching Breaking Bad as I do, I'm not impressed with the money laundring enterprise being so careless. Skyler White, law upholding citizen until recently, does that stuff far better because the gas station she uses to launder Walt's money actually works. So did Stringer Bell's copy shop. Tsk. Anyway, all the Holmes & Watson domestic scenes were thus highly enjoyable.
The science sounds about as plausible as Rambaldi's inventions on Alias, but that par the course, and so I'm fine with that.
It wasn't as good an episode as the two previous ones, plus there really should have been some wrap up on poor Mr. Leyden and his late chauffeur, but there was still a lot to enjoy. Points for originality to Leyden & the script for letting the client try to bribe Holmes via a rare bee. That was great. And not just funny, because while Holmes was definitely over the moon at the prospect of the bee he still, when not believing the client had a case, stood by his principles and took the bee only once he had actual reason to believe Leyden was on to something. He also was respectful and emphatic (in a Holmesian restrained way) to the tragedy of Leyden and the others who'd been poisoned (and the death of the chauffeur; btw, I did notice that Leyden when talking about the man mentioned having helped him and his partner to adopt a child, which I take it means they were a same-sex couple).
THe dry-cleaning subplot could have had an unpleasant aftertaste despite being a case for Watson to show her abilities IF not for for Holmes actually cleaning the fridge (unasked, that's important) and thus keeping his part of the housemates duties. Mind you, having now marathoned The Wire and watching Breaking Bad as I do, I'm not impressed with the money laundring enterprise being so careless. Skyler White, law upholding citizen until recently, does that stuff far better because the gas station she uses to launder Walt's money actually works. So did Stringer Bell's copy shop. Tsk. Anyway, all the Holmes & Watson domestic scenes were thus highly enjoyable.
The science sounds about as plausible as Rambaldi's inventions on Alias, but that par the course, and so I'm fine with that.
