Elementary Catch-Up: 2x08 - 2x14

2x08 "Blood Is Thicker"

• “I feel that I have thrived here not because of who I am, but because of who I have come to know.” What a good line. I know I joked about when the show falls into House M.D. territory with dialogue just becoming characters aggressively describing one another, but when a character shows SELF AWARENESS and does this about themself, I swoon!
• Mycroft is such a fuckweasel!!!

2x09 "On the Line"

• I appreciate still getting a Thor Bridge adaptation even though there was already a reference.
• “I consider you to be exceptional.” This whole final conversation is so much. You know, this really does feel like watching House did in a lot of ways. Spacing out during case related stuff I really don’t care about and then squeeing over two minutes in a final scene between two leads who are obviously in love but the show wants to pretend aren’t. Takes me right back to college.

2x10 "Tremors"

• This cold open is literally the same as the beginning of The Knight Before Christmas 😂
• While I agree with Sherlock’s premise that morality and legality are not the same thing, I have issues with his application of this in his work, and this episode is really important for teaching him a lesson about letting the means be worthy of the desired ends.
• And I love this final conversation between him and Marcus, because we get to see the sweetness and insecurity of Sherlock trying his best to be a good friend and make amends, but we also get to see the totally valid anger directed at him for his failures.

2x11 "Internal Audit"

• that was... fine?

2x12 "The Diabolical Kind"

• We love a purple prose voiceover!!!
• GOD this painting of Joan, I can’t even.
• I’m of two minds about the “give Moriarty a kid thing” but i think they handle it as well as you could, and tbh this episode slaps? JLM and Natalie have great chemistry, and like I said: episodes where characters you love actually have something at stake in the A-plot always hit different than your average case of the week.

2x13 "All in the Family"

• more character work and relationship development among the cast, yes show, thank you!

2x14 "Dead Clade Walking"

• “It’s not a collage. I don’t do crafts.” LOL
• Joan gets to give Sherlock a rude awakening!
• I find Holmes’ smutty pen pal thing so charming, in contrast to the girls the show often parades around his apartment. Is it stereotypical to make her older? IDK, but the fact that Sherlock is still sort of shy and in awe of her is sweet and feels less like titillation for the audience and more like a genuine expression of “here’s a character who is unconventional and whose taste is a little bit off the beaten track” than threesomes with hot twins.
• The fake 95 Theses ahahaaa. “Those who disagree shall be vigorously tickled!”