Elementary 3x24

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Discussion post for Elementary 3x24 'A Controlled Descent', season finale.

Spoilers in the comments.

What did you think?

Comments

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I thought it felt like the appropriate final episode to a more subdued season. Less plot twists, a very melancholic feeling to the whole thing. I really loved the song at the end.

I'm happy we finally get to see Sherlock's father next year, although it's definitely going to be very traumatic for him.

EDIT:

Okay, I just found an interview with the writers and they said it was obvious that Sherlock had relapsed at the end. I thought it was meant to be a sort of "maybe he did, maybe he didn't" thing that was left to the viewer's interpretation! I wish they'd been clearer about it, or at least shown a bit of Joan's reaction. Sure, they were going for sad and all, but now it feels more like they clumsily cut halfway through the scene.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

I didn't think it was obvious. It seemed more ambiguous, which
I would think is a stronger way to end the season -- you aren't sure.

That said, this whole season was a dump-a-thon for me. Too many
trips down roads that went nowhere -- did anyone really care about
that other woman whose name I can't even recall now? And Joan
needs to be a doctor again. Her Nancy Drew act separate from Sherlock
is a waste of time. They should be working together, solving crimes,
and using reason and intelligence. That's what makes the show work.

I have to say that when I heard the show had been renewed I didn't
feel anything, but when I heard that "Forever" hand't been renewed I
was upset because I was much more emotionally involved with those
characters than with Sherlock and Joan.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is they're sacrificing character development to spend more time on the case of the week. Which is actually the most boring part of every episode. Yes, the killer is the second person Joan and Sherlock talk to. Case solved.

It's like this season all the important character development happened off-screen: Joan gets over her boyfriend's death some time while we're stuck watching a weekly convoluted murder, and what about her mom, or is she worried in any way about Moriarty's interest in her? She suddenly seems fine, so we're led to assume she got over her problems somehow, but we're not actually shown.

Considering how important Kitty was for Sherlock, it's weird he almost didn't mention her at all after she left. They squeezed the important moments in between cases, as if they didn't have enough time for the characters, only for the whodunnit.

Let's hope next season they'll have learned their lesson, and give us the Elementary we fell in love with back. I miss it.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

That's it -- Kitty.

I really don't think she meant anything at all to him. I certainly
never felt any connection between the actors. And when she was
gone, that was that. Talk a waste of half a season on that!

Yes, why bring in the boyfriend for Joan and then kill him off with
no emotional investment at all? It's like the people writing the show
don;t speak to each other -- and they've never actually watched
it. That's frustrating!