Elementary 2.17
Mar. 7th, 2014 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which a parallel pair of cases are cracked, and roosters will be roosters.
Seems Romulus and Remus are indeed here to stay. I stll want to know how Clyde reacts. Is there a turtle/chicken feud known to the world? Or are the two species amiable?
In other news, Lestrade, not surprisingly, also took up that "you can stay with us" offer and is outstaying his welcome, complete with getting drunk, whereupon Joan intervenes and Sherlock retreats. So far, so expected, only like Lestrade I was assuming that the confidence boosting case Joan gives to Lestrade to resolve had been rigged by Sherlock. The double twist was what I HADN'T expected, and what made it good: Sherlock realising that believing he'd seen through a Sherlock Holmes ploy was the ultimate confidence booster to Lestrade, much more so than the banal truth of having solved a mugging on his own, and playing along when Lestrade confronted him. In between, we get Lestrade's Joan issues (i.e. simultanously being jealous of her and grateful to her, but above all needing to believe he knows Sherlock better than she does) and Joan solving the Lestrade situation in a way both practical and humane; she doesn't want him hanging about drinking, but she does want to help him, and thus she sets him to work.
The (main) case of the week would be that rarity on the show, a crime without anyone killed or hurt, were it not for the fake kidnapper slayn by the panicked husband. Anyway, as soon as they said the second husband of the "kidnapped" wife was a plastic surgeon, it was obvious he must have had something to do with the ears.
Trivia: Lestrade reacting to the male mugged witness making a pass at him and wanting to go out with a matter of factly "I don't mix business and pleasure" instead of a homophobic outburst was a nice touch by the show; that he later assumes the witness was really Holmes in disguise and declares himself flattered was amusing.
I have an unholy suspicion all that defusing bombs practice will come into play by a later episode.
Since he's now off to Ireland, I regret neither Gregson nor Bell ever had a scene with Lestrade to talk shop.
Seems Romulus and Remus are indeed here to stay. I stll want to know how Clyde reacts. Is there a turtle/chicken feud known to the world? Or are the two species amiable?
In other news, Lestrade, not surprisingly, also took up that "you can stay with us" offer and is outstaying his welcome, complete with getting drunk, whereupon Joan intervenes and Sherlock retreats. So far, so expected, only like Lestrade I was assuming that the confidence boosting case Joan gives to Lestrade to resolve had been rigged by Sherlock. The double twist was what I HADN'T expected, and what made it good: Sherlock realising that believing he'd seen through a Sherlock Holmes ploy was the ultimate confidence booster to Lestrade, much more so than the banal truth of having solved a mugging on his own, and playing along when Lestrade confronted him. In between, we get Lestrade's Joan issues (i.e. simultanously being jealous of her and grateful to her, but above all needing to believe he knows Sherlock better than she does) and Joan solving the Lestrade situation in a way both practical and humane; she doesn't want him hanging about drinking, but she does want to help him, and thus she sets him to work.
The (main) case of the week would be that rarity on the show, a crime without anyone killed or hurt, were it not for the fake kidnapper slayn by the panicked husband. Anyway, as soon as they said the second husband of the "kidnapped" wife was a plastic surgeon, it was obvious he must have had something to do with the ears.
Trivia: Lestrade reacting to the male mugged witness making a pass at him and wanting to go out with a matter of factly "I don't mix business and pleasure" instead of a homophobic outburst was a nice touch by the show; that he later assumes the witness was really Holmes in disguise and declares himself flattered was amusing.
I have an unholy suspicion all that defusing bombs practice will come into play by a later episode.
Since he's now off to Ireland, I regret neither Gregson nor Bell ever had a scene with Lestrade to talk shop.
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Date: 2014-03-10 03:01 pm (UTC)I hope that some time between now and moving to Ireland, Lestrade learns how to say Garda.