Elementary 2x7

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Discussion post for Elementary 2x7 'The Marchioness'

Spoilers in the comments.

What did you think?

Comments

[unovis.livejournal.com]

That was both very appealing and very annoying.
I love these characters, whoever they're supposed to be. I love the reappearance of Mycroft and his steady attempts at rapprochement with his brother.

I loved Sherlock's statement that he felt born out of his time (wink, wink). But too many things in this episode seemed to rely on Sherlock being unobservant.

I loved the final conversation between the brothers. I am always impressed with Sherlock's manners, when he produces them, particularly in his response to his brother's "spot of leukemia."

But I keep choking on the big deal of the episode. I can't believe Joan would have been so careless of her relationship with Sherlock as to have sex with Mycroft on that London trip. Where and when did it happen? Were they both casual enough to do it under Sherlock's nose, in 221-B?

Are we supposed to believe Joan was that rash? She just met this man; she may have found him enormously appealing, and Sherlock's brother, and Mycroft may well have actively tried to seduce her with revenge tucked away in the back of his mind--we don't really know him--but she knows Sherlock intimately. She's in an important partnership with him, personal and professional, and she knows how fraught the relationship between the brothers is. She knows it would be upsetting to Sherlock to the point that she kept it from him, though he's read her sexual activity easily enough before. What did she think he would do when he found out? Would she risk so much on a one night stand? I could better believe her entering a relationship with Mycroft, clandestine or not, after time and thought. I'm not against the pairing, but I find the way it was scripted rather a cheap trick.
I could believe that she lied to Sherlock that they had had sex, but I think we're meant to take it seriously.

[rap541.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, part of my problem with her having sex with Mycroft is exactly what you've outlined. I could see her eventually getting there - having sex with Mycroft - but not almost immediately. It just seems out of character for Joan, who isn't, on the surface, a particularly impulsive person.

I'm not against the pairing either, although I am not taken with Mycroft at all, but it needs a better set up.

I also wonder why we haven't seen Mrs. Hudson.