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Blind Pineapple posted:Sherlock's dialogue was on point throughout ("I was bitten by a radioactive detective"). That was probably the best line, but I also really liked the bit where he'd just read the comics and was talking about all the ways the hero had died and mentioned liking the one where the protagonist and his greatest enemy fall off a waterfall together. On the other hand, Joan knowing all the super heroes' back-stories because her brother was a fan was pretty dumb. I certainly can't go into that sort of detail on stuff my siblings like.
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Yeah, "I was really into this stuff when I was a kid" would have worked a lot better.
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Yeah that was sloppy but the rest of the episode was pretty decent and funny. Then that ending, oh my god. 
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Dragonatrix posted:Then that ending, oh my god. This won't end well... ...for Joan 
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Tiggum posted:On the other hand, Joan knowing all the super heroes' back-stories because her brother was a fan was pretty dumb. I certainly can't go into that sort of detail on stuff my siblings like. Oh man, I loved that. I took it as implying that her experience in dealing with spergy obsessives goes back to her early childhood.
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If your siblings leave comic books lying around everywhere growing up it seems reasonable that you'd end up reading them a bit. That ending :o
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:This won't end well... Even less so for Kevin or Ken or whatever the mole's name was.
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Total sting. Layers like an onion.
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Woohoo! It might be the last season considering the Sunday move and the ratings but I'll enjoy it while I still can.
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I just hope Natalie Dormer finds the time to squeeze in an episode or two before the show ends for good.
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Jorghnassen posted:I just hope Natalie Dormer finds the time to squeeze in an episode or two before the show ends for good. Same, I really, really feel the point she made in her escape episode needs some resolution, from her in particular, or involving her somehow.
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Mar 27, 2016 02:32
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Socialist zombies come to eat our guns!
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Mar 28, 2016 06:37
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Haha, I enjoyed this one a lot. Very season 1.
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buddhanc posted:Socialist zombies come to eat our guns! Sherlock's been getting some great lines the past couple of weeks. His verbal imagery of his neighbor's sexual escapades was funny too. Also good news about a new season. Morland has given the show new life, and I'm still holding out naive hopes of seeing Moriarty again.
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Good episode. Both the case and the B plot of Sherlock and Fiona worked well.
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Interesting double shot tonight. I liked the poker game mystery even though they went back to Russian spies which they already did in S1. I can't really see the half-sister sideplot going anywhere. It would've been a lot more interesting if they weren't related and their only connection was Mycroft having a thing for middle-aged Asian-American professionals and seeing them both at the same time. That would've opened some intriguing possibilities.
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Blind Pineapple posted:It would've been a lot more interesting if they weren't related and their only connection was Mycroft having a thing for middle-aged Asian-American professionals and seeing them both at the same time. That would've opened some intriguing possibilities. Plus, it would've been absolutely hilarious. Much better than the sister, who's kind of a poo poo. I just watched the first episode and hope the second gets rid of her somehow.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Mycroft having a type was hilarious. Wish it was true. Well Watson's father has the type. You can still laugh.
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Blind Pineapple posted:I liked the poker game mystery Accretionist posted:the sister, who's kind of a poo poo. wayfinder posted:Well Watson's father has the type.
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Tiggum posted:I thought Joan was being obnoxious and the sister's attitude and reaction was pretty understandable. She was immediately cagey and manipulative. Her, 'help me or you're a pussy,' line to Holmes was enough that I want her gone.
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Tiggum posted:A Chinese immigrant dating other Chinese immigrants isn't really a "type". Whoops, I thought her (Western) as-it-turns-out-step-dad was the father in question
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I don't think Natalie Dormer is ever coming back Or she'll just do a voiceover/letter thing in the finale.
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In the shock of the season, the mole in Morland's office turned up dead. The mystery was a bit farfetched this week even by Elementary standards. Hard to believe that middle aged lady with presumably no significant firearm training would be able to get a clean shot on a PTSD army vet with a history of violence. It's fitting that we saw Eugene this week, because this plan was up there with the bomb in the drifter's corpse in terms of ridiculous murder plans this season.
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't think Natalie Dormer is ever coming back Well it's been renewed for next season so maybe they can try to get her to show up for an episode. Let's hope anyways.
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Blind Pineapple posted:The mystery was a bit farfetched this week even by Elementary standards. Hard to believe that middle aged lady with presumably no significant firearm training would be able to get a clean shot on a PTSD army vet with a history of violence. It's fitting that we saw Eugene this week, because this plan was up there with the bomb in the drifter's corpse in terms of ridiculous murder plans this season. I think this mystery was totally passable, but not enough else happened. They can usually buff up an episode with peripheral, and this one was kind of "meh, okay."
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I enjoy but good god is it ever the TV version of mansplaining ALL THE TIME
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HookShot posted:I enjoy but good god is it ever the TV version of mansplaining ALL THE TIME Well you're gonna get some of that when the male lead is an all-time brilliant detective and repository of knowledge. Besides, Joan is probably the most investigatively-capable Watson of all the adaptations, and gets plenty of moments to shine.
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ShakeZula posted:Well you're gonna get some of that when the male lead is an all-time brilliant detective and repository of knowledge. Besides, Joan is probably the most investigatively-capable Watson of all the adaptations, and gets plenty of moments to shine. It's more than that though, it's explaining completely obvious poo poo to the audience. Like yeah show, thank you for having the main characters explain to each other over and over exactly what is happening and what they found at a crime scene and how all those things link together.
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HookShot posted:It's more than that though, it's explaining completely obvious poo poo to the audience. Like yeah show, thank you for having the main characters explain to each other over and over exactly what is happening and what they found at a crime scene and how all those things link together. That's not really "mansplaining" though
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ShakeZula posted:That's not really "mansplaining" though That's why I said the TV version, where you just overexplain everything to the audience when it's super loving obvious to anyone with half a brain what the plot is doing rather than literally spelling it out for them.
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Have you ever seen other network shows?
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Tons, and Elementary is way worse than any other that I watch, and I watch The Blacklist, which is objectively The Worst Show on TV Right Now.
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HookShot posted:That's why I said the TV version, where you just overexplain everything to the audience when it's super loving obvious to anyone with half a brain what the plot is doing rather than literally spelling it out for them. 90% of the television watching population doesn't meet your brain criteria though. That's why they do the explaining. You have to remember that we are the intellectual elite.
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