Elementary

[[conti]] The story then flash backs to earlier and Holmes has been called by some wall Street fat cats types to help find their missing high ranking employee. After some fairly amusing satirical banter between him and Watson about wall street being nothing more that a pack of thugs and thieves in suits (which kind of falls flat when you remember when Holmes is the original Rich Idiot With No Day Job), they track the man down to a unregistered apartment where he has apparently die from a drug over dose. Which brings old addictions into the fray.

Rat Race stands out above the the rest of the season so far. While the plot is a decidedly by the number affair involving high flying executives knocking each other off (more power to them eh comrades?) we get finally get to see Watson to do some sleuthing in her own right and save the day while Holmes's normally Informed Flaw of drug abused and sheer pride get the proper depiction of actually being serious weaknesses that could cost a lot more then just his job as 'consulting detective'. In a touching finishing scene between Holmes and Captain Gregson, Holmes sheepishly confess that his unwillingness to share his past of substance abuse to the good captain was less about concerns about job as he claimed to Watson, but that despite Holmes's I-wear-an-old-t-shirt-and-a-scarf-to-board-meetings-because-I-don't-give-a-shit-about-anything persona, it personally means a lot to him what Gregson thinks about him.

Four and half heroin laced biodynamic salads.

Sure he's a Rich Idiot With No Day Job, but he's problem with the bankers wasn't that they were rich, but that they became rich by exploiting others to gain their money, and their part in the latest economic downturn. he would have no problem with them being rich if they hadn't screwed the poor over.

...of course Holmes likes texting shorthand. I bet he's a fan of l33t too.

Just caught the last three episodes. I like the way Marcus Bell (also known as "the black detective whose name I never actually learned because he was mostly there to be shown up by Holmes") has had his competence and skill brought out in these last few episodes (e.g. interviewing the doctors at the hospital; "This would be the Hank that you don't know"). Plus, deductive-Watson is back, hooray!

I agree — they've really got their feet under them now. I wonder if the bookstore guy will be showing up in later episodes, too (I noticed they alluded to the bees again, in the hospital episode).

~I called it~

Since we are doing WM Gs I have got a couple.

The reason that Sherlock father didn't turn up is because he doesn't existed. Sherlock created the character of a concerned parent threating to cut him off as a way of getting Watson's help with out having to actually admit to her has a problem.

Waston likewises didn't just 'make a mistake' which costs her patient life. She intentionally killed them. They either had no hope of recovery and she decided to end their suffering, or more darkly, was a murder/rapist/child molester ect that she felt had no right to live.

edited 11th Nov '12 3:19:16 AM by joeyjojo

My first instinct when she realized the story was real was that he knew the story because Sherlock's father got to the actor, and paid him to tell this specific story.

Mine as well — but I remembered later that Sherlock took credit for pulling the prank.

Random change of subject: the other day, while getting a ride home from a friend and fellow Elementary fan, I looked up the actor playing Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) because I was wondering if I ever saw him in anything before. Much to my amazement and his: he played the protagonist in Hackers!

Just ... wow! I didn't remember anyone's name but Angelina Jolie from that movie!

^He was also in Trainspotting, if you've watched that. And he played Frankenstein and the Creature with Benedict Cumberbatch in a fantastic stage version of Frankenstein. I think he did a better mad scientist than Benedict did (whom I preferred as the Creature anyway, so it all worked out).

My theory, until the truth was revealed, was that Sherlock hired the actor to play the part of his dad, and his dad then got to the actor and bribed him to tell a real story as a sort of prank on Sherlock.

I have to admit: I have approximately zero interest in Trainspotting. Eli Stone, yes; Trainspotting, no.

...possible. But unlikely. More probable is that the actor simply told that story as part of his improvisation in the role.

That's what I think now that I know that he was friends with Sherlock.

Ah, missed the "until" in that earlier post.

Actually, I briefly thought that it was Sherlock's father, and he was merely amusing himself by being crude when I watched it the first time.

I thought he was, as well, until he flat out admitted he wasn't.

edited 11th Nov '12 5:25:48 PM by deathpigeon

Sherlock's father I would hope would have a bit more class then that. No by much mind you.

...I'm personally imagining him as being similar to Mycroft in Sherlock.

Speaking of which, when will we see Mycroft?

edited 12th Nov '12 1:10:25 PM by deathpigeon

I'd guess Mycroft was in England.

After re-watching the opening, I'm starting to think I've seen it before...

Apparently, it's a live action version of Ratigan's trap from The Great Mouse Detective.

Well, that's Irene. All that's left is Mycroft and Moriarty.

Two bucks says that Homes was lying about her being dead.

Speaking of whicn I just didn't buy the reveal week, He killed five flipping people just to get his dead beat dad out of jail. Really?

edited 16th Nov '12 4:56:17 PM by joeyjojo

My personal theory on The Reveal is that while she didn't physically die, she died to him, as in "You're dead to me." What happened was that they were close, but she betrayed him. He took it badly. He cut off contact with her, and went on a downward spiral.

That does seem more in line with the Irene of cannon.

I dont have any new content I just don't want this thread to die.

edited 3rd Dec '12 5:01:49 PM by joeyjojo