I may be alone in this, but I think the Sharks have been jumped. My husband disagrees. I accept my aloneness.
And I hereby surrender my position that insurance work is less than thrilling, in the face of such over-whelming support. 
Oh yeah, and more Clyde. 
I also disagree. I feel the writers have done a good job developing the series and keeping it fresh. The first season was introducing the characters and establishing the Holmes/Watson dynamic. The second season brought in characters from the Conan Doyle canon and showed how they were updated to a new setting. And the third season has worked on the idea of Holmes and Watson working as equals with Kitty introduced as a new character to highlight the change in the Holmes/Watson relationship.
I think the show has gotten too stuck on the drug-addiction storyline. It was interesting for a season or two, but they’ve spent too many episodes on it. I don’t really need yet another episode of Sherlock’s issues with his Group therapy sessions.
It doesn’t help that the show seems to have decided that every case has to be Sherlock helping the NYPD with a murder investigation. I think a little more creativity in the types of cases he took on would make it a little fresher.
So I like Kitty to the extent that she brings something new to the storyline, and dislike her to the extent that the writers manage to shoe-horn her into storylines involving Sherlock’s feelings about group therapy.
Right. And that dynamic changes over time. A show that was just Holmes-and-Watson-are-partners-and-solve-a-crime-every-week would be less interesting, imho, than a show in which their relationship changes as their lives change. I’m sure that we’re not going to have a future season in which they never talk to each other, or something extreme like that, but having them establish their own separate identities doesn’t mean they don’t still interact frequently and entertainingly.
Allow me to be honest: If Kitty were prettier, nobody would complain about her inclusion in the show.
not accurate - I find her to be very pretty - I don’t complain about her inclusion, I just ‘know’ that its reasonably short lived so I am not going to invest in her as a character. (I also, to a point, don’t like her character) I do enjoy the way they have taken the show, but she is a ‘third wheel’ only to push the rest of the Holmes/Watson pairing.
Ditto. She is quite comely, even though they don’t try to ‘sex her up’.
I don’t like Kitty very much and would like to be rid of her, but I hope they don’t kill her. I get very tired of killing off female characters when they become inconvenient.
My prediction for what will happen to her is:
Sherlock will see that she’s become a loose cannon after she beat up the killer’s sister. He (and Watson) will see the case through and help Kitty find the guy(I don’t believe he’s dead) and then when it’s all over, he’ll reluctantly tell her that he can no longer be her mentor because she has proven that under pressure she can’t stick to his methods. She’ll end up going back to London, and he and Watson will go on as before, as partners.
I agree. Ophelia Lovibond is not lacking in good looks.
Eh, aside from the fact that Kitty is quite pretty, there are plenty of shows where people complain about characters played by attractive actresses. The Barbara character in Gotham is probably the most attractive person on the cast in that show, for example, but the thread on that show is pretty decidedly in favour of the writers killing her off sooner rather then later.
Well, I guess this question has been answered.
I’m only surprised it was answered so quickly. With three more episodes in this season, I thought they’d stretch this story out for another episode or two.
Gregson still aims to pursue whoever disfigured Gruner. Was it Kitty? Probably, but maybe not.
Gregson knows Kitty disfigured Gruner. I like to believe that he said “we will pursue the perp” just to satisfy the higher-ups. He won’t go after Kitty and Gruner will be killed prison. I think O.L. is prett, but her manner of speaking, almost a lisp, was getting on my nerves. (very petty). I hope the stories go back to season 1, with a bit of playfulness. This story arc was entirely too somber for me.
I was a little surprised that, given what Gruner did to Kitty (specifically, raped her) that she didn’t drop some of her concoction a little lower on his body while disfiguring his face. Still wouldn’t kill him, but at least he’d never be able to rape anyone (naturally, anyway) again.
She may well have! We only saw his bandaged face. Gregson may have just been tactful.
Well, I knew Kitty was not going to last past this season, because you can’t really do Sherlock without Watson. I was certain she was going to wind up dead, though. I fully expected Gruner to have wriggled free while she talked with Sherlock, and was ready to escape and kill her. I like they way they handled it. I assume statute of limitations on disfigurement is 7 years?
I liked that she split the difference on the revenge/no revenge question. Poor guy probably won’t be able to keep down any nutmeg flavored snacks for the rest of his life.
I assume he’d have to go after her if she stayed in NYC. But if she’s outside of the country, its presumably easy to come up with excuses to avoid extraditing her. Especially if the only witness to her crime is a convicted serial killer.
That said, I’m a little hazy on how they were going to convict Gruner. Proving that he and the murder victim were the parents of the kid doesn’t prove he is a serial killer/rapist. And Kitty presumably can’t testify against him now. Did I miss some other piece of evidence?
Good point. In my version of the episode, that’s exactly what happened, then!
I was pleasantly surprised that she didn’t end up either dead or so badly broken that she no longer wished to be a detective. This way she’s out of the show but still using Holmes’s methods to help people in some other country. I get so tired of female characters being victimized or killed just to get rid of them.
They’ve got her set up for occasional guest star/possible spin-off status.
Well, they know the child was conceived during the time period between when she was abducted and when her body was found, which is pretty strong. The thing you missed was Watson saying they found a notebook in his home with pictures of his victims that are difficult to explain away.
Someone mentioned that they had found a book in his apartment, presumably a scrapbook of photos of his victims.
I really liked how this whole arc played out. Lots of clever bits… the fact that the boy was Del’s son, the revelation of what Kitty and Sherlock initially meant to each other, the nice non-cliche that Del did NOT get free when Kitty was monologuing, etc.
It wouldn’t shock me if we saw occasional 2- or 3- episode mini-arcs in the future in which Kitty is trying to solve some crime in (exotic world location) and Sherlock and Joan travel there to help her out. A good excuse for occasional breaks in the scenery without abandoning the show’s NYC roots.
