Elementary 1.19

[selenak]

In which Clyde the tortoise returns, and also we meet this show's version of an ACD character.



This show continues to be my happy place, with its fondness and respect for people in general, not just the leads and/or regulars. Both one shot characters - though I would be happy to see Pam return! - and recurring, which I assume Miss Hudson is. So we've finally met Elementary's version of Mrs. Hudson, and I love what they did with her. The reference to her being trans is blink and you'll miss it, but it's there, and the actress looks plausible (I have no idea whether she herself is trans). Meanwhile, we see her having a friendly relationship with Holmes and building one with Watson, and that she is their age rather than at a parental age gap and ends up dropping by once a week for house cleaning rather than live with them as part of getting on her own feet and living on her own terms makes for a neat updating of (Ms) Hudson's role in the Elementaryverse.

Good to see Clyde again - btw, I am informed by lonelywalker that he has his own twitter and chooses to be Clyde Watson, because he did hear those soup jokes way back when, you know - and everyone, Holmes, Watson, the cops, Pam - working together to solve the convoluted big robbery while a snow storm hits New York - was just very enjoyable to watch. Mind you, I'm not clear on how even later knifing can disguise a gun wound as a knife wound - what about the bullet, for starters? or the residue, if Elle's confederates managed to get it out before delivering her to the hospital? - but when the character stuff makes me happy, which it usually does on this show, I'm happy to handwave.

Trivia: Miss Hudson mentions Holmes' monograph on bees. Speaking of bees, I should hope those on the roof during better times are currently snugly wintering elsewhere rather than perishing in the snow blizzard.

Comments

[viggorlijah]

Candis Cayne! She was on dirtysexymoney, and is such a pleasure to watch. She is trans, often plays trans characters.

[lonelywalker]

Ditto this. She's fantastic.

[selenak]

That makes Ms. Hudson an even better contribution to the cast!

[lonelywalker]

They mentioned at the start that the bullet wound was a through-and-through, so there was no bullet left in the wound. Presumably they just stabbed her in the same place as she was shot, and the medical staff wouldn't have been looking for any discrepancy. It was only because Bell decided to look at non-bullet wound victims in the hospital that he found her, which she clearly didn't anticipate... I'm not sure about GSR in the wound itself.

[selenak]

I was told over at lj that as long as no hard bone was hit, which there wasn't, it's possible, and withdraw my objections.

[lonelywalker]

Ah - I bow to those with superior medical knowledge!

[rembrandtswife]

Imdb.com indicates that Ms. Hudson was, indeed, played by a trans actress--Candis Cayne, birth name Brendan McDaniel. She's been on Nip/Tuck and Dirty Sexy Money.

[selenak]

Most excellent.

[monanotlisa]

It really is. I should be more of an activist of course, surrounded by them right now, but it is a matter dear to my heart, and as such makes me happy in a deep, light place.