[work break] Elementary S3 premiere feels! Bullet-points, because essays are for work

[kaberett]

Spoilers, obviously.

• it is an episode of awesome competent ladies!!!
  
• ha I was RIGHT that Sherlock ran because he was scared
  
• I am absolutely convinced (and have managed to convince sebastienne and my housemate) that when Sherlock says he left MI6 because of "creative differences", what he means is that he started sharing state secrets with Kitty; and MI6 went "... WHAT THE FUCK OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT"; and Sherlock was all "but she's my protegee tho!"; and MI6 went "... BYE THEN"
  
• he is absolutely 100% wrong about having been missing the relationship with Watson, not the fact of Watson
  
  • he's taught people before - Lestrade, Bell - and it's still Watson that was the relationship he got something rewarding (as opposed to tolerable) from
    
  • he was referring to Watson as a partner by about six months in (halfway through season 1; "I am... better with you, Watson", the offer to stay on, etc etc; and more-or-less explicitly refuses to apply the label to Kitty)
    
  • he outright lies to Kitty about Watson's training, in a way that I find very interesting in terms of unambiguously showing him to be an unreliable narrator ("she spent two years doing exactly what she was told" NO SHE DIDN'T NOT EVEN ONCE)
    
  • however, he has got better at giving praise (pointing out that Kitty got him started on the path that solved the locked-room aspect)
    
  • but he's still fundamentally really frustrated with her - he keeps comparing her to Watson and finding her lacking (as she alludes to, and very explicitly wrt the handcuffs - "should have been out of them minutes ago")
    
  
  
• I strongly suspect that Watson is going to end up doing much of Kitty's mentoring and will be substantially better at it than Sherlock (and he will learn some more of how to be a human being from observing this), in part because Kitty is so much like him (e.g. following Watson because she was bored (which is of course a large part of why Sherlock followed her at the beginning of S1, as we were told in S2), picking up his referring to her as/calling her "Watson")
  
• my heart broke a little bit about Gregson, repeatedly - both that his marriage didn't work out & that he considers Joan but not Sherlock family
  
• MARCUS I know we didn't see you much but AAAAH MARCUS your "there's going to be a murder, I am going to KILL THIS PERSON if they don't stop being annoying", your little face <333
  
• HURRAH CLYDE BONUS SHOT
  
• okay I am still just... fundamentally really disconcerted that Joan's bed is visible from the desk she uses for private practice
  
• and I'm really excited about the fact that she's obviously doing private practice in addition to police consultation!

(In other fannish news I have begun working my way through a refresher on canon for my Yuletide assignment and begin to have ideas. They are not as interesting as my ideas for last year's were, but nonetheless ideas. We shall see how they go as I proceed.)

Comments

[silveradept]

I would have been happy with a Watson-only episode or several before Sherlock returns, because this episode really let Lucy Liu shine in the spotlight, some place the Homes-Watson dynamic wasn't letting in.

I also feel Kitty is interference, and badly-placed interference at that. I can't quite get them working well together.

That said, Yay, Marcus! Yay, Clyde!