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kate_nepveu) wrote2014-11-17 09:11 pm
kate_nepveu) wrote2014-11-17 09:11 pm
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Elementary catchup
I'd watched the first half of last season more-or-less in real time and as a result have forgotten most of it that wasn't carried through the back half. I caught up with the rest mostly by just listening while stitching, since S3 has started, and now I'm actually, shockingly, up-to-date on that as well.
So S2 was kind of a mess.
I so dislike that they made Moriarty a mother as a shortcut to make her vulnerable—no fucking way she doesn't terminate that pregnancy. But at least they left her ambiguously evil and potentially messing with Sherlock's head; please let's keep her that way, because she's so much more interesting, unless we get a really long extended arc justifying the change, which seems unlikely on a practical level. (Also keep her having a see-it-from-space crush on Joan, that portrait, oh my word.)
(Also: I don't care what kind of electronic monitoring they have on her, there is no way that she gets glass jars for her paints while in prison, nuh-uh, never, trust me on this.)
If we got told that Bell's injury was definitely fully rehab-able then I forgot it, which made me want to throw something at the screen when Sherlock told him he just had to work harder.
Mycroft. The thing with Mycroft is—it's not just that I do not find him attractive, because there are many, many people I do not find attractive. It's that I find him so unattractive that he is like a Dementor for my libido. Every fiber of my being recoils at the idea of him in a sexual context, and thus the whole Mycroft/Watson plotline made me want to throw a brick through the screen and run away shrieking.
Even beyond that, though, it was terrible because it made Joan a bone for the Holmes boys to fight over, and even if Joan pushed against it, Sherlock was still being an insecure jerk with boundary issues and I prefer to like Sherlock, please. And Sherlock's decision to work with MI-6 in the finale is way too rushed—I can trace the logic, but it deserved more, and again: you're being a jerk, Sherlock. Stop that.
And now for S3:
I was really not excited by Kitty at first because I didn't put it past the show to make it a tug-of-war over Sherlock's attention, which, ick. But now they're co-mentoring her, which is great even if I side-eye some of the details (Joan insisting that all rape survivors need to go to support groups; Sherlock being kind of a shitty mentor to Kitty early.). Also new boyfriend is cute and I really want evil drug lady to come back because that first episode was fun. So, I'm still not thrilled with Sherlock, but I'm a little more hopeful.
So S2 was kind of a mess.
I so dislike that they made Moriarty a mother as a shortcut to make her vulnerable—no fucking way she doesn't terminate that pregnancy. But at least they left her ambiguously evil and potentially messing with Sherlock's head; please let's keep her that way, because she's so much more interesting, unless we get a really long extended arc justifying the change, which seems unlikely on a practical level. (Also keep her having a see-it-from-space crush on Joan, that portrait, oh my word.)
(Also: I don't care what kind of electronic monitoring they have on her, there is no way that she gets glass jars for her paints while in prison, nuh-uh, never, trust me on this.)
If we got told that Bell's injury was definitely fully rehab-able then I forgot it, which made me want to throw something at the screen when Sherlock told him he just had to work harder.
Mycroft. The thing with Mycroft is—it's not just that I do not find him attractive, because there are many, many people I do not find attractive. It's that I find him so unattractive that he is like a Dementor for my libido. Every fiber of my being recoils at the idea of him in a sexual context, and thus the whole Mycroft/Watson plotline made me want to throw a brick through the screen and run away shrieking.
Even beyond that, though, it was terrible because it made Joan a bone for the Holmes boys to fight over, and even if Joan pushed against it, Sherlock was still being an insecure jerk with boundary issues and I prefer to like Sherlock, please. And Sherlock's decision to work with MI-6 in the finale is way too rushed—I can trace the logic, but it deserved more, and again: you're being a jerk, Sherlock. Stop that.
And now for S3:
I was really not excited by Kitty at first because I didn't put it past the show to make it a tug-of-war over Sherlock's attention, which, ick. But now they're co-mentoring her, which is great even if I side-eye some of the details (Joan insisting that all rape survivors need to go to support groups; Sherlock being kind of a shitty mentor to Kitty early.). Also new boyfriend is cute and I really want evil drug lady to come back because that first episode was fun. So, I'm still not thrilled with Sherlock, but I'm a little more hopeful.
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(Show, please don't let Kitty and Joan fight over a person, period. They needn't become besties, but I think they can be stronger than the petty-competitor thing.)
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I don't actually think the show meant him to be repulsive! I think he was supposed to be magnetic and a true foil to Sherlock . The sad-schlub role was already filled by Lestrade (who I see I completely forgot, because I found him so boring), after all.
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I was also extra mad because I had all these ideas about how twisty and interesting the Bell plot was going to be with Bell working for a potentially shady branch of the NYPD and taking on issues of surveillance and so forth, and then it all kind of fizzled and we got the super boring Mycroft plot instead.
...but I've just caught up on this season so far and I actually really like it! Love Joan's evil nemesis, love Joan and Sherlock co-parenting Kitty, love Joan's cute new boyfriend, it's all good. KEEP IT UP. AND NEVER LET MYCROFT COME BACK.
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I knoooooooow. Mycroft, the WORST.
And yes, I very much fear the show's decided it's done everything it can or will with Bell and Gregson, not to mention Ms Hudson or Alfredo or Sherlock's sponsee whose name I can't remember at this hour!
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(I'm afraid the idea of a musical episode causes me to break out in metaphorical hives out of sympathetic embarrassment, but more things for Bell to do in general, yes plz.)
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It may be early to say, but I suspect the murder weapon in episode 1 is going to be a strong contender for the most vexing thing in season 3. I know, often the science is a little sloppy, but seriously? "Incidentally, Watson, did you notice how the victims appear to have slammed their keys against one wall of the lift at the same time that half the cutlery in the building spontaneously flew off sideways and all the hard drives stopped working?"
Kitty is quite good, but did it have to be rape? Bleh.
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But the prison stuff was something I knew about.