Elementary 3x24

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

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

Spoilers in the comments.

What did you think?

Comments

[venusinthenight]

No mention of Alfredo at the end, which sucks. How hard is to include an additional sentence of dialogue wherein Joan lets Sherlock know that Alfredo's going to be released, or that he's going to see or is seeing a trauma counselor, or something to let the audience know he's doing better.

And all of this is also at the expense of character development for Joan. She STILL hasn't dealt with any residual PTSD from her kidnapping in S2. (I would think this'd rack her brain, especially as Alfredo is someone she knows.) She still hasn't dealt with any from Andrew's death. She's self-isolated. The writers don't care about her, don't care to give Joan any meaty storylines and relationships (or to expand on her existing ones), are just fine to give us -- for all intents and purposes -- scraps. Elana March amounted to nothing. Her relationship with Andrew, nothing. She essentially cut off her mother and Oren, and we've never met either of her fathers.

This must have been Elementary's version of "The Final Problem". And I was hoping it'd involve Moriarty vs. Joan. It would have been a nice subversion. After all, it was Joan who beat Moriarty.

That said, they'd been hinting at relapse possibilities since the S2 finale.

I gave S3 a chance. Screw this show. #characterdevelopmentisforwhitemen

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

You are voicing what I've been feeling all season.

Such a waste of talent!

[venusinthenight]

I KNOW! *headdesk* I want to see Lucy Liu's Joan be awesome and well-rounded, dammit. Not just stand around and roll her eyes and deliver lines stoically with the rare glimmer of excitement. And I want to get to know her. I want @elementarystaff to tweet about how awesome an actor she is.

And don't get me started on the exceedingly gross underutilization of Ms. Hudson, or the fact all the Irregulars since Teddy in S1 have all been white people. Snooze.

*sings* We could have had it aaaaaaalllllllllll...