Elementary 2.16
Mar. 1st, 2014 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakAnother weird hiatus is over, and the show is back. So is Son of the Third Doctor.
First of all, I thought the killer/blackmailer would turn out to be Lestrade's assistant, thereby making a point of the fact everyone, including Joan, constantly overlooked her, which would also have drawn a direct corraletion between Lestrade employing her in the first place to imitate Holmes but missing the point ofthe Holmes and Watson relationship as a partnership, and thus ending up with a murderer. Which would have been neat, but no. Otoh, the episode let Holmes draw a parallel and contrast between Lestrade and Watson, after Lestrade drew one in an earlier scene (where he basically admits being envious of Joan) which was possibly more interesting, not least of what it says re: Holmes' layered attitude towards Lestrade.
At first I thought the show had made a mistake of bringing Lestrade back if they were simply using him as comic relief, which they avoided the last time at the start of the season, but then it turned out they hadn't (and Pertwee made the most of his don't-you-see-I-became-a-pimp scene). The (former) CEO, like most CEOs in tv shows, being evil wasn't a surprise but his type of evil not being the illegal or violent type was. I'm not sure, though, about the blackmail potential there, unless he's married and poses as a monogamist or celibate, because buying sexual favours from lots of peple by finding out their price might be distasteful, but, as the episode points out several times, it's not illegal, and it's not out of line with what many suspect CEOs get up to in their spare time anyway, so why should Michelle Forrester believe this gives her leverage? Anyway, Lestrade being hungry enough for a well paid job and the spot light to go for it but still being neither a bad investigator per se (note that he found the waiter) nor corrupt in the sense of looking away when it comes to actual crime was good characterisation.
Holmes deciding to deprogramm fighting cocks: just a week or so ago I read an article about cockfights in New York City, by sheer coincidence (or not). Am amused that this actually worked, which is very this show. But what will Clyde say if Romulus and Remus are staying? (Also when there was chicken to eat in between I thought Holmes had gotten bored and decided to fry them, but he didn't anymore htan Clyde became turtle soup.)
First of all, I thought the killer/blackmailer would turn out to be Lestrade's assistant, thereby making a point of the fact everyone, including Joan, constantly overlooked her, which would also have drawn a direct corraletion between Lestrade employing her in the first place to imitate Holmes but missing the point ofthe Holmes and Watson relationship as a partnership, and thus ending up with a murderer. Which would have been neat, but no. Otoh, the episode let Holmes draw a parallel and contrast between Lestrade and Watson, after Lestrade drew one in an earlier scene (where he basically admits being envious of Joan) which was possibly more interesting, not least of what it says re: Holmes' layered attitude towards Lestrade.
At first I thought the show had made a mistake of bringing Lestrade back if they were simply using him as comic relief, which they avoided the last time at the start of the season, but then it turned out they hadn't (and Pertwee made the most of his don't-you-see-I-became-a-pimp scene). The (former) CEO, like most CEOs in tv shows, being evil wasn't a surprise but his type of evil not being the illegal or violent type was. I'm not sure, though, about the blackmail potential there, unless he's married and poses as a monogamist or celibate, because buying sexual favours from lots of peple by finding out their price might be distasteful, but, as the episode points out several times, it's not illegal, and it's not out of line with what many suspect CEOs get up to in their spare time anyway, so why should Michelle Forrester believe this gives her leverage? Anyway, Lestrade being hungry enough for a well paid job and the spot light to go for it but still being neither a bad investigator per se (note that he found the waiter) nor corrupt in the sense of looking away when it comes to actual crime was good characterisation.
Holmes deciding to deprogramm fighting cocks: just a week or so ago I read an article about cockfights in New York City, by sheer coincidence (or not). Am amused that this actually worked, which is very this show. But what will Clyde say if Romulus and Remus are staying? (Also when there was chicken to eat in between I thought Holmes had gotten bored and decided to fry them, but he didn't anymore htan Clyde became turtle soup.)
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