Elementary 3x22 Thoughts
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I really enjoyed it. The case itself was fine but the character stuff was excellent.
• Sherlock/Bell were really wonderful. I think this is my favourite episode of them together. If I shipped them I’d be so happy. Frankly, I kind of ship them now. ”You deserve more.” ♥ Sherlock was just so sweet and Bell’s expression was wonderful. Then the final scene where a newly broken up Bell goes to hang out with Sherlock and they just hang out throwing cards into the Stanley Cup was lovely. ”Tonight, pretty sure this is all I need.” Love it.
• It really struck me while watching Sherlock’s interactions with Marcus how much he’s changed from the pilot. To see Sherlock emotionally open, offering relationship advice, being incredibly supportive and considerate and offering to set Bell up on date – and it makes complete character sense?! I love it. I feel like every other episode this season has been about Sherlock taking giant leaps forward in his interpersonal relationships – Kitty, Joan, Alfredo, Bell – and it’s lovely to see. Sherlock really is surrounded by people he cares about, people that care for him, friends and acquaintances he gets along with. I can completely buy him as the least lonely person on this show.
• ”The great love of my life is a homicidal maniac. No one’s perfect.” This made me so happy. Dare I hope that a mention of Moriarty will cause her to show up in the final episodes? Fingers crossed. What I loved especially about this, beyond just Sherlock mentioning her, was a) how flip he was about it, and especially b) that he said ”is” not was. Moriarty is the great love of his life. ♥
• Joan and Sherlock were lovely as always. Their little exchanges over the success of male criminals over female ones amused me.
• The only issue I really had was that while this was a wonderful Sherlock/Bell ep it was kind of a disappointment on the Joan/Bell front. Would it have been so hard to have her a part of the final scene? Considering she’s back to living at the brownstone it was weird that she wasn’t there. But then she was weirdly absent from the Bell side of the story for the latter half of the episode. I loved the little scene between them at the prison where she asks about Shauna and Bell’s grimace when he realised she knew about them was adorable. I loved her concern and protectiveness of him when she discovered that Shauna was IAB. But then she just disappears from his story. We don’t get to see her telling him the truth about Shauna, or her checking in to see what happened or if he’s doing okay, and of course she’s absent from the final scene. If the show just wanted to just do a Sherlock/Bell bonding episode that’s fine, that’s great, but then I wish they had kept Joan separate from the beginning instead of dropping her place in the story halfway through.
• I did like the twist on the usual Holmes/Watson script with Watson giving someone secret info (and Sherlock being against it!) and Holmes being the one to comfort them after.
• Oh, and I was on Shauna's side. I don't think she was in the wrong at all.
I really enjoyed it. The case itself was fine but the character stuff was excellent.
• Sherlock/Bell were really wonderful. I think this is my favourite episode of them together. If I shipped them I’d be so happy. Frankly, I kind of ship them now. ”You deserve more.” ♥ Sherlock was just so sweet and Bell’s expression was wonderful. Then the final scene where a newly broken up Bell goes to hang out with Sherlock and they just hang out throwing cards into the Stanley Cup was lovely. ”Tonight, pretty sure this is all I need.” Love it.
• It really struck me while watching Sherlock’s interactions with Marcus how much he’s changed from the pilot. To see Sherlock emotionally open, offering relationship advice, being incredibly supportive and considerate and offering to set Bell up on date – and it makes complete character sense?! I love it. I feel like every other episode this season has been about Sherlock taking giant leaps forward in his interpersonal relationships – Kitty, Joan, Alfredo, Bell – and it’s lovely to see. Sherlock really is surrounded by people he cares about, people that care for him, friends and acquaintances he gets along with. I can completely buy him as the least lonely person on this show.
• ”The great love of my life is a homicidal maniac. No one’s perfect.” This made me so happy. Dare I hope that a mention of Moriarty will cause her to show up in the final episodes? Fingers crossed. What I loved especially about this, beyond just Sherlock mentioning her, was a) how flip he was about it, and especially b) that he said ”is” not was. Moriarty is the great love of his life. ♥
• Joan and Sherlock were lovely as always. Their little exchanges over the success of male criminals over female ones amused me.
• The only issue I really had was that while this was a wonderful Sherlock/Bell ep it was kind of a disappointment on the Joan/Bell front. Would it have been so hard to have her a part of the final scene? Considering she’s back to living at the brownstone it was weird that she wasn’t there. But then she was weirdly absent from the Bell side of the story for the latter half of the episode. I loved the little scene between them at the prison where she asks about Shauna and Bell’s grimace when he realised she knew about them was adorable. I loved her concern and protectiveness of him when she discovered that Shauna was IAB. But then she just disappears from his story. We don’t get to see her telling him the truth about Shauna, or her checking in to see what happened or if he’s doing okay, and of course she’s absent from the final scene. If the show just wanted to just do a Sherlock/Bell bonding episode that’s fine, that’s great, but then I wish they had kept Joan separate from the beginning instead of dropping her place in the story halfway through.
• I did like the twist on the usual Holmes/Watson script with Watson giving someone secret info (and Sherlock being against it!) and Holmes being the one to comfort them after.
• Oh, and I was on Shauna's side. I don't think she was in the wrong at all.
