Elementary 3x04 and 3x05
* I am interested in AI and I know stuff about AI and that means I am usually annoyed at anything that features AI on tv/in movies. This was not much of an exception, but it wasn't too horrible to watch. They kept it logical enough.
* I think they did okay in not ever letting Sherlock judge the AI, and apart from that one sentence about love in the middle of the ep that could be taken as sentience, the AI was decidedly not intelligent. Which was cool. Because it is a *pain* to talk to computers. I thought they handled that quite well.
- Apart from that, the ep was really convoluted. Okay, it's always convoluted, but this time I found it too far-fetched to make sense.
- You have to listen to a CD to find the virus file? Really? *headdesk*
+ I very much liked Sherlock's quandary at the end. Not that the professor's argument made any sense at all, but that it was already hard for Sherlock to sacrifice even one innocent person. Which is an immensely likable trait in him.
+ I loved Joan and Sherlock's discussion about her boyfriend going to Kopenhagen. I believe him just as Joan does. He's not usually interested in lying to people. He does manipulate them sometimes, but he doesn't later lie about it. (That's more his brother's style.)
- That whole Gregson thing came so far out of left field, I checked the previous eps to see if I'd skipped one.
* The main plot didn't grab me one way or the other, but I didn't miss Joan, that's something.
+ The actor who played Kazimir(?), the muscle-guy, was a much better actor than I'd expected from someone with that build. Prejudice, oi.
- What really made me write this post down is Gregson and his daughter.
I don't really get it, to be honest. What good does it do to apologize to the guy? I mean, the damage - making his daughter look weak - was done by him charging in, and then by her not stopping him. I don't get that whole "male protective posturing" that's going on in all of American tv. It's like they're proud of having a society in which men have to bodily protect women from harm. This is not the society I want to live in - and it's not the society I think I've been living in all my life. I know there are dangers, and the fear of them is deeply ingrained, but I hate it when shows reinforce that and make it look like that's how it needs to be.
I know they tried to address it and they did it with two female POVs, so I guess that's something. And Gregson did what they asked of him in the end. I still don't think he got the message. Apparently, Kitty got the message through to Stotz - which is problematic in its own right, seeing as she's been a victim of violence, and I am sure she threatened him in some way, too.
So in the end, this left me confused and unsure of what it intended to accomplish. What do you think?
x-posted to dw (comments:
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