because apparently another show is exactly what I needed in my life.

[heresluck]

For reasons that are not even worth going into, today was A Day. A really, really annoying day. And at the end of it, I just wanted to come home and eat some spaghetti with pesto and cherry tomatoes and drink a glass -- okay, possibly two glasses -- of a nice sauvignon blanc and watch last night's episode of Nashville

Comments

[sheafrotherdon]

\o/ Elementary! \o/

I love the slow burn of this show - it leads up to perfect perfect moments that are astonishing for being on network TV, but which take episodes to come together. So, yes, liking it is where it starts. And from your mouth to TPTB's ears about it not going the way of Heroes . . .

[heresluck]

Yeah, watching Vonnie and Oyce go from "hmmm, intriguing" to "ooh" to "MORE PLZ" has given me a sense of the general trajectory. Hee.

Heroes and Elementary are obviously very different kinds of shows, so I am not overly worried. But that WAS the last time that particular one-two combo sucked me into a show, so. If a brain-stealing serial killer gets away at the end of S1 of Elementary, I am going to be CRABBY, is all.

[counteragent]

Stick with it if you can. It was like at first viewing but it steadily creeps up on you until it's love (or it was for me). Yes the cases are stupid and ridiculous but Sherlock and Joan are aces.

[heresluck]

Dude, I watched Farscape. I have plenty of practice sticking around through the front half of a season because I have been promised that things really take off later on. :D

[counteragent]

Well, "really take off" implies sort of a climactic season level dramatic arc, which, if you're looking for that (and eventually I am--cases of the week won't hold me forever even if I love the characters), you won't _really_ find it in canon to date, although 1-2 episodes shows promise of epic overtones to be developed later. But I've come to appreciate that the understated tone of the show is a feature, not a bug. It's a bit like early Fringe in that way (although of course Fringe got seriously epic--too much so--I don't think Elementary will ever have that particular issue).

[vonniek]

I approve of your life choices. :p

Like I'd said, the cases are mediocre most of the time (they do improve somewhat over time), but the sensitivity with which the writers handle the slow-evolving relationship between Sherlock and Joan is a thing of beauty. I didn't love it right off the bat either -- more like intrigued by the possibility inherent in the dynamic between the two. I think I got truly fannish around... episode four? And from episode nine and on, it is pretty consistently awesome (although by that time, I was pretty ga-ga over the show so I might not be the most reliable of its critics

[heresluck]

I already told you I was planning to watch the show! I just moved up the timeline a few months. :p

And hey, I've been watching Haven; I know allll about handwaving the case of the week for the sake of the relationship between the leads. And, as you well know, that partner dynamic is fannish catnip for me.

fundamentally decent people who have become a bit lost and broken, coming together and finding clarity in the path ahead in each other's company.That is indeed a bulletproof narrative kink of mine, and a lovely way of describing it. It's similar but not identical to the found family thing that I also love. But yeah, broken people helping each other cope -- let's see, Firefly, Farscape, Friday Night Lights... yep

[blacksquirrel]

As others have said, it takes a little time to come together, partly because they first have to build the baseline before they can riff off of it. I enjoyed all of it, but somewhere around mid-season it becomes *amazing* :)

[heresluck]

So I have gathered! Most of my other shows are hiatus-y for the next few weeks, so I have some time to start catching up. :D

[sockkpuppett]

Elementary gets better and better.