Elementary 5.14
In which Elementary continues to educate me on things I didn't know in its case of the week.
I mean, assuming that video games tournaments are such a millions of dollars thing, which I take it there are, since the show is usually good with stuff like that. Was amused that Gregson was alerted to this case by his niece and wondering whether we'll see her again. Also, I'm glad the Inuit character and his girlfriend actually were alive and not gruesomely murdered.
Re: Shinwell arc, Joan coming up with a solution - or steering him towards it - to his "how to protect my daughter without doing exactly what made me lose my daughter in the first place" dilemma sort of worked for me though I want to know whether Young Stalker Gangster won't just, once he has his new territories, continue with the harrassment on the assumption that now he's grown in power he will even less likely get trouble for it? I thought at first Shinwell had a recording device in his pocket and Young Stalker Gangster would end up in prison by the end of the episode, but that presumably would not only blow Shinwell's cover but also make Siobhan (spelling?) look like a snitch to Young Stalker Gangster's associates and make her life hell.
Anyway, I like that there's no immediate father/daughter reconciliation at the end of this, because it would have been too easy and would not have addressed Shinwell's goal of becoming someone his daughter can respect and rely on if he'd won back her affection by a gangster play. But now we've met the daughter, I expect we might see her again, and hopefully also the aunt who in her one appearance had such a striking presence.
I already figured when Sherlock had to get his head shaved at the end of last episode that this would stay with us for a while since presumably that was when Johnny Lee Miller was also shooting Trainspotting II, and didn't want to run around with a wig. It's an odd look for him, but otoh also very ic for Sherlock to be blasé about it.
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I mean, assuming that video games tournaments are such a millions of dollars thing, which I take it there are, since the show is usually good with stuff like that. Was amused that Gregson was alerted to this case by his niece and wondering whether we'll see her again. Also, I'm glad the Inuit character and his girlfriend actually were alive and not gruesomely murdered.
Re: Shinwell arc, Joan coming up with a solution - or steering him towards it - to his "how to protect my daughter without doing exactly what made me lose my daughter in the first place" dilemma sort of worked for me though I want to know whether Young Stalker Gangster won't just, once he has his new territories, continue with the harrassment on the assumption that now he's grown in power he will even less likely get trouble for it? I thought at first Shinwell had a recording device in his pocket and Young Stalker Gangster would end up in prison by the end of the episode, but that presumably would not only blow Shinwell's cover but also make Siobhan (spelling?) look like a snitch to Young Stalker Gangster's associates and make her life hell.
Anyway, I like that there's no immediate father/daughter reconciliation at the end of this, because it would have been too easy and would not have addressed Shinwell's goal of becoming someone his daughter can respect and rely on if he'd won back her affection by a gangster play. But now we've met the daughter, I expect we might see her again, and hopefully also the aunt who in her one appearance had such a striking presence.
I already figured when Sherlock had to get his head shaved at the end of last episode that this would stay with us for a while since presumably that was when Johnny Lee Miller was also shooting Trainspotting II, and didn't want to run around with a wig. It's an odd look for him, but otoh also very ic for Sherlock to be blasé about it.
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