Elementary: New CBS Sherlock Series [Season 1 thread]

That’s interesting. I didn’t actually know that eating heroin was a viable option. I guess I figured it’d get all chopped up by stomach acids. I kind of wonder what it tastes like.

I’m still really enjoying Jonny Lee Miller , He’s very good.

I don’t like that Lucy’s character always assumes that Sherlock has or will regress into drugs. She would be very irritating to me if she were my “valet”. And blabbing to the police detective was a little premature IMO.

I loved that he refused to dig his own grave. I’ve always wondered why more people in movies/shows don’t refuse. Was caught off guard at the murderer’s identity, thought maybe the head guy faked his hospital stay somehow.

Aaron was a douche. Who gets upset for someone checking you out online in this day and age? Too many creeps out there. Don’t know if I want him to come around or not.

I have no idea whether or not eating heroin is a viable option, but I wouldn’t trust a TV show’s take on the subject (unless it is Mythbusters, and I really doubt they’ll take this one on).

This episode had some good parts and not so good parts. Like I said, it seems desperate to have the “hero gets kidnapped” story so early in the flow, but the whole episode wasn’t wrapped up in that. And there was at least a neat use of the story. I love how the criminal trapped Sherlock by using his ego and desire to show off against him. “You were so eager to tell me that you figured it out that you followed me alone into an empty parking garage.” Taze.

Used the Taser= tranquilizer gambit. sigh

I spotted both that the boss would be the one who looked guilty, and that it was actually the secretary, before those were revealed. The boss when Sherlock was doing the rundown on the board naming the prior deaths, and then immediately after the boss said it, I knew it wasn’t him, and knew it was the secretary.

I agree that Watson went to the cops way too soon, and blabbed about his history way too soon. She thought he relapsed, not that he’d been abducted by a serial killer.

I did like that Gregson already knew Holmes’ secrets, and was respecting his privacy.

I didn’t figure out the stuff with Aaron, the date guy, didn’t peg to his lie, but did spot her rebuff of the kiss. But I did know when he was married that there would be some convoluted explanation for it.

I think the reason he was upset was not that she ran an online check, but she spotted he was lying. That ability to catch you in your deceits is something you want them to have to learn/earn, if ever. White lies happen, things you don’t want to get into or avoid, and you’d rather get to them on your own terms than have them spotted and the issue forced.

But I doubt Aaron will be back. He was a one-off plot point. He blew her off, and she stated she wasn’t really looking for a boyfriend.

I wonder if they’re going to keep using the timing of hospital stays to establish alibis or guilt? Because two times in a row is one too many.

And for a guy stocking his love shack with food, that was way too much food. He had like a week’s worth of food there, and he’d have to be eating dinner there all the time. He’d need to worry a lot more about salad that’s gone bad than salad with peanut oil in it.

And I really really liked that, at the end, he was practicing picking handcuffs with his hands behind his back. “Must do this faster next time…”

And peanut allergies are to the PROTEINS in peanuts. Peanut oil should be perfectly safe to eat. Or rub on your skin. Or whatever.

^Really? I’ve always heard people with peanut allergies saying they had to avoid anything cooked in peanut oil.

Question about last night’s show – the sweetener in the gas tank. Wouldn’t it have dissolved? I’ll admit I have never thought much about the sugar-in-a-gas-tank “prank,” but what thought I’ve given it involved the sugar dissolving.

Also, even if it didn’t dissolve, would there be enough left to be found on the beach? Aren’t we talking maybe a cup or two of sugar? or whatever sugarlike substance it was? Or do you have to fill the tank? How do you fill the tank if there’s gas in there?

Wasn’t it sand in the gas tank?

Yeah, twickster. That confused me too. They showed the sugar in the tank as this muddy residue, but the sugar on the beach was crystalline like real sugar/sand.

Watson is really bugging me. She acts more like a bitchy wife than a concerned healthcare worker. That guilt trip/pouty act of hers would totally turn me off to open up to her and I like talking about my feelings. And then, when Sherlock opens up in his limited way, she continues to complain and bitch that it’s not enough. Try a little empathy and trust, woman!

I personally liked the prank he pulled on her. She deserved it. And as he said, “You should have trusted me.”

This week’s story was too convoluted for me. It started off nicely unconventionally, but then went totally into bizzaro land. Still like the characters though.

No, because he found the sweetener on the beach and thought it was weird sand.

Or did I get that completely wrong and it was weird sand? :confused: I may not have been paying 100% attention.

Absolutely LOVE this show. I always crash before it comes on so it’s my Friday night treat :)I was skeptical about Lucy at first but I think she’s working out great.

He said it was not frosted sand (not been weathered and eroded) and he assumed it was trucked in to counter beach erosion. He finally deduced it was pure silica (SiO2) and poured into the fuel tank to slowly clog the filter while in flight.

So the whole thing about the sweetener that looked just like sugar was a red herring?

Yep - red herring.

Anyway still enjoying this show, though I think they’re playing the “Irene” card too early. Jonny Lee Miller’s take on Sherlock strongly reminds me of Jeremy Brett’s interpretation of the role (& I enjoyed Brett). Lucy Liu is growing on me.

The stuff in the tank was artificial sand, i.e. manufactured sand, not natural sand, i.e. sand that has been weathered and eroded. The sweetener connection was a red herring.

I pegged the guilty party by the time honored trick of

recognizing the actor as the most well-known of the guest stars*.

But I didn’t know the why or how. I was thrown by the superglue thing. I knew he looked pale and sweaty and that indicated some illness. I wasn’t getting the superglue connection until Sherlock spelled it out. I was thinking the odor was related to some weird diabetic thing, and Sherlock was mistaking it for superglue.

On the one hand, Watson has a valid point, Sherlock is very closed off. He won’t share with her and what little he dribbles out is stuff she’s already figured out. On the other hand, her attitude is a bit put-offish. She always intrudes into his thought process with her observations, rather than saving them up for an appropriate time.

*Not a real spoiler, just funnier that way.

See, to me the most known of the guest stars was Roger Rees, the actor that Sherlock hired. And having a reasonably well known British actor of the appropriate age cast as fake dad made it harder for me to figure out he was a fake

I think the advice that Sherlock’s “friend” gave Watson was extremely insightful. He said something like “If you think Sherlock doesn’t have friends, then perhaps you should get a new definition of friend.” She doesn’t think outside her preconceived ideas about former addicts. Sherlock is, however, forcing her through example to look at things differently. I think that in the end he will do more to reshape her thinking and life than she will his.

Oops, and good catch. By the time he showed up, I had already pegged the other guy, and he was unrelated to the murder case.