Elementary S2
Sep. 28th, 2014 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatI have a really strange relationship with Elementary. You see, I love the characters, I don't think they are in any way or shape or form similar to Doyle's creations, but I love them anyway. And I love their cases. I love the tiny details that we learn about Sherlock and Joan in every episode...
But when it comes to long-term arcs? I HATE THEM! I didn't like Irene Adler when she was still Irene Adler, the whole search for her killer, and I didn't like the Moriarty reveal. I downright hated Moran and his storyline. And Mycroft... I love that he loves his brother but there's absolutely none of the brilliance that should be there, that makes up Mycroft's character in the books. He's a well-meaning bum.
It was so bleak and dark and humorless and it felt like there was no shred of hope anywhere and it was all going down the drain. And even though I perfectly understood Joan and her need for privacy and her own living space - to tell Sherlock she was moving out in the middle of all that? A RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT who needs stability, in the middle of the second greatest upheaval of his life? I get that she's her own person, not an appendage of Sherlock's, but she could've stayed with him till it all calmed down, a week or two. Yes, there would've been new cases, but not one involving his BLOODY BROTHER MURDERING SOMEONE! How could a good friend, let alone his former sober companion, do that to him? She has lived with him for two years now. A week or two wouldn't have changed anything and it would've allowed him to get back on his feet... That's simply something I couldn't understand.
S3 promo:
But when it comes to long-term arcs? I HATE THEM! I didn't like Irene Adler when she was still Irene Adler, the whole search for her killer, and I didn't like the Moriarty reveal. I downright hated Moran and his storyline. And Mycroft... I love that he loves his brother but there's absolutely none of the brilliance that should be there, that makes up Mycroft's character in the books. He's a well-meaning bum.
It was so bleak and dark and humorless and it felt like there was no shred of hope anywhere and it was all going down the drain. And even though I perfectly understood Joan and her need for privacy and her own living space - to tell Sherlock she was moving out in the middle of all that? A RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT who needs stability, in the middle of the second greatest upheaval of his life? I get that she's her own person, not an appendage of Sherlock's, but she could've stayed with him till it all calmed down, a week or two. Yes, there would've been new cases, but not one involving his BLOODY BROTHER MURDERING SOMEONE! How could a good friend, let alone his former sober companion, do that to him? She has lived with him for two years now. A week or two wouldn't have changed anything and it would've allowed him to get back on his feet... That's simply something I couldn't understand.
S3 promo:
