Elementary 5.04.
The hundreth episode - congratulations, show! - but alas also the first this season I'm feeling meh about, save one scene.
The scene in question of course is the one with Sherlock and Joan on the couch when he sums up their partnership. That was lovely. Also of course the running "you believed the sun was revolving around the earth?" gag which was a neat homage to the very first ACD Sherlock Holmes story (and kudos to Elementary for finding a way to include this that still made sense for this incarnation of Holmes).
Why I was meh about the rest:
Case of the week: here I was admittedly a bit disappointed because on the one hand, yay case involving a study of asteroids, and yes, I knew it couldn't be Moriarty because Elementary's Moriarty didn't start out as a mathematician/astronomer, but I still felt frustrated that the resolution of the case didn't involve her in a roundabout way. I mean, it was the anniversary episode.
Subplot of the week: okay, here my frustration is contextual. I mean, it's an ongoing thing from the get go that Elementary paints a somewhat rosy, straight ouf of 90s tv picture of the NYPD, and I don't expect this to change any time soon, plus I do love Gregson and Marcus Bell as characters. And I'm usually a soft touch for "character declares love forteam and tells them they're his inspiration" type of scenes, plus it's ic for Gregson to do that, and part of the general Elementary code that Joan points out that taking place in the ceremony is for the team. HOWEVER. With the recent years bringing more and more bad cop related news, the divergence between that and tv cops as shown in Elementary starts to feel more and more grating if you have an entire supblot to how wonderful the NYPD is. And Gregson starting his speech with all the bad news on tv and then adding what the news is about, to wit "cops getting shot". Well, yes, Chief, that, too, but a lot more of then they're about cops shooting other people.
It reminds me of how I wasn't able to watch The West Wing during the Dubya years until the last one and a half, when change was in the air. (Welll, seemed to be.) The suspension of disbelief, it was/is just too hard.
Anyway: it meant that I didn't feel fuzzy and warm during the last scene, I felt annoyed. Even taking into account the Doylist (hah!) level, i.e. I thinkthe scriptwriters meant the applause for the show's team, and I wouldn't be suprrised if everyone wearing a police uniform in that scene was really an Elementary production member.
Meanwhile, the wall on which Sherlock pinned pictures from their previous cases worked as a homage/look back, though the Midnight Ranger cover reminded me of how good this Paul Cornell episode was, and how I wished the 100th episode to have been on that level.
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The scene in question of course is the one with Sherlock and Joan on the couch when he sums up their partnership. That was lovely. Also of course the running "you believed the sun was revolving around the earth?" gag which was a neat homage to the very first ACD Sherlock Holmes story (and kudos to Elementary for finding a way to include this that still made sense for this incarnation of Holmes).
Why I was meh about the rest:
Case of the week: here I was admittedly a bit disappointed because on the one hand, yay case involving a study of asteroids, and yes, I knew it couldn't be Moriarty because Elementary's Moriarty didn't start out as a mathematician/astronomer, but I still felt frustrated that the resolution of the case didn't involve her in a roundabout way. I mean, it was the anniversary episode.
Subplot of the week: okay, here my frustration is contextual. I mean, it's an ongoing thing from the get go that Elementary paints a somewhat rosy, straight ouf of 90s tv picture of the NYPD, and I don't expect this to change any time soon, plus I do love Gregson and Marcus Bell as characters. And I'm usually a soft touch for "character declares love forteam and tells them they're his inspiration" type of scenes, plus it's ic for Gregson to do that, and part of the general Elementary code that Joan points out that taking place in the ceremony is for the team. HOWEVER. With the recent years bringing more and more bad cop related news, the divergence between that and tv cops as shown in Elementary starts to feel more and more grating if you have an entire supblot to how wonderful the NYPD is. And Gregson starting his speech with all the bad news on tv and then adding what the news is about, to wit "cops getting shot". Well, yes, Chief, that, too, but a lot more of then they're about cops shooting other people.
It reminds me of how I wasn't able to watch The West Wing during the Dubya years until the last one and a half, when change was in the air. (Welll, seemed to be.) The suspension of disbelief, it was/is just too hard.
Anyway: it meant that I didn't feel fuzzy and warm during the last scene, I felt annoyed. Even taking into account the Doylist (hah!) level, i.e. I thinkthe scriptwriters meant the applause for the show's team, and I wouldn't be suprrised if everyone wearing a police uniform in that scene was really an Elementary production member.
Meanwhile, the wall on which Sherlock pinned pictures from their previous cases worked as a homage/look back, though the Midnight Ranger cover reminded me of how good this Paul Cornell episode was, and how I wished the 100th episode to have been on that level.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1198657.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.