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I am bizarrely delighted that Joan's mother read about the attempted anthrax attempt and immediately texted Joan to throw out all of her milk. And that Joan then got rid of all their milk.
Also the idea of a bovine holocaust. WHY IS THIS SO DELIGHTFULLY MORBIDLY CUTE.
Oh, and the fact that Joan's reaction to Sherlock's plate-throwing temper tantrum is to calmly follow him into the kitchen, pick up a plate, and throw it at the ground as hard as she can. "That didn't solve anything. Huh. Weird."
I pretty much pinpointed the brother as the mastermind as soon as he showed up, but it's okay, I don't watch this show for the murder mysteries. I watch for the characters. And this was a lovely episode, particularly everything to do with Alistair's death. I was pleased by the execution of ghost!Alistair, or more specifically the way Sherlock reacted and interacted with him. Just very beautiful. "I came here today, because, um...because I loved you very much, and I wanted you to know that you'll be missed." ♥♥ Joan gets to show off her medical skills and be an excellent detective and pull out her sober companion credentials wrt Sherlock's fear of relapsing, but this episode really belonged to Sherlock's love of his friend Alistair.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, I probably have, but one of my favorite things about Elementary is that frequently Plot A will be a murder case of some sort and Plot B will be Joan and/or Sherlock dealing with something in their personal lives, and those two plots will affect each other but they don't mirror each other. It's very easy to make the subplot a reflection of the case of the week, so that the big breakthrough on the case means a breakthrough in one's personal life or vice versa, but instead Alistair's death is connected to the anthrax case only because Sherlock's grief and preoccupation affects his ability to connect the dots as quickly as usual. I just really like that.
And I'm going to miss Alistair, despite this being only his second appearance in the show. TV really needs to stop killing off characters for a few weeks. Give me an emotional break here.
Also the idea of a bovine holocaust. WHY IS THIS SO DELIGHTFULLY MORBIDLY CUTE.
Oh, and the fact that Joan's reaction to Sherlock's plate-throwing temper tantrum is to calmly follow him into the kitchen, pick up a plate, and throw it at the ground as hard as she can. "That didn't solve anything. Huh. Weird."
I pretty much pinpointed the brother as the mastermind as soon as he showed up, but it's okay, I don't watch this show for the murder mysteries. I watch for the characters. And this was a lovely episode, particularly everything to do with Alistair's death. I was pleased by the execution of ghost!Alistair, or more specifically the way Sherlock reacted and interacted with him. Just very beautiful. "I came here today, because, um...because I loved you very much, and I wanted you to know that you'll be missed." ♥♥ Joan gets to show off her medical skills and be an excellent detective and pull out her sober companion credentials wrt Sherlock's fear of relapsing, but this episode really belonged to Sherlock's love of his friend Alistair.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, I probably have, but one of my favorite things about Elementary is that frequently Plot A will be a murder case of some sort and Plot B will be Joan and/or Sherlock dealing with something in their personal lives, and those two plots will affect each other but they don't mirror each other. It's very easy to make the subplot a reflection of the case of the week, so that the big breakthrough on the case means a breakthrough in one's personal life or vice versa, but instead Alistair's death is connected to the anthrax case only because Sherlock's grief and preoccupation affects his ability to connect the dots as quickly as usual. I just really like that.
And I'm going to miss Alistair, despite this being only his second appearance in the show. TV really needs to stop killing off characters for a few weeks. Give me an emotional break here.
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