Elementary 2x12

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Discussion post for Elementary 2x12 'The Diabolical Kind'.

Spoilers in the comments.

What did you think?

Comments

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Holmes is going to have to figure some stuff out with Moriarty and I'm really curious as to how it's going to change him, in the long run.

I love love love the Joan/Moriarty interaction. I love how calm and collected Joan always is, how Moriarty's constant poking at her seems desperate and ultimately futile. I like the power dynamic there, it's fascinating to watch.

It's interesting to see how Holmes' and Moriarty's dysfunctions interact. Their love, such as it is, is interesting. They both seem the type to dismiss romance, but in the end their interaction is becoming more and more intimate. Moriarty's no longer pretending to be Irene and Holmes knows everything she has done and yet they write each other. Perhaps another grand manipulation on Moriarty's part, but you have to wonder. She doesn't seem to be the type completely without empathy or capacity for emotion, and the nature of ruses and cons are not so simple when it comes to human entanglements. They are drawn to each other, apparently, in a way that sounds so much like the inexplicable, uncontrollable romance of convention, that if you strip away all the murder and crime you may as well have the beginning of a harlequin romance, or at least foreplay.

The philosophical absolutism both these characters often show makes me question their so called superior intelligence, but, eh, that may just be my biases.

I am not a visual person at all but I was fascinated by the expression Moriarty painted onto Joan.

See, this is what you're good at Elementary writers. Good characters with interesting interactions and a presentation that is just unpredictable enough to keep you going. Please please please stop with the focus on the single episode cases, or at least more research that 5 minutes on google for your concepts.