#elementary pilot

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ELEMENTARY REWATCH Season One, Episode One: “Pilot”

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In the very first epsiode Sherlock and Joan go out to eat dinner together. And now seven seasons later still noone of them knows how to cook something eatable. 

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Rewatching the pilot i love that they didn’t showed Sherlock and Joan as a Johnlock dynamic that knows eachother for five minutes but allready goes along perfectly. But instead choosed to show that the different personalities of John and Sherlock need a time to work along perfectly. That a Johnlock dynamic is nothing that happens instanly but that needs time and that you constantly need to care for

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Rewatching the pilot i noticed a lot of funny differences in the house

First at all this metal fence in front of Sherlocks house

the front stairs are completly different. Also notice that Sherlocks taste in women completly changed. He never had sex with a black haired tattooed punk woman again in the later seasons

Glass doors?

Apparently Sherlock had a bed at one point of the story

What the hell is that kitchen?! Seriously the kitchen is my fav room of the whole house and hurts me to see it like this.

Also Sherlock is completly right in epsiode 1 It is the most shabby house. It is unbelivable how broken it is. I am glad they were at least able to buy plastering in the later epsiode.

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I allways wonder what the exact reason for letting Sherlocks and Joan first conversation start like that. 

Was it a) to show us that this “love at first sight” is a dumb cliché movie trope that they will not use foe Joan and Sherlock?

or was it b) to show us that Sherlock know from the beginning that Joan would be special to him. But also showing the viewer taht it would never be romantic?

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Hey, is there a meta about the first encounter of Joan and Sherlock? Why the fake love confession? To show the viewer that something like that will never happen in the show or the lead back to that scene in the end? So we will have a real love confession in the final?

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Finally Saw the Pilot of Elementary...

I’ve been spoiled for some things but not others. Assume I’m unspoiled when you ask me about this.

Jonny Lee Miller is an interesting take on Holmes, and his vulnerability is shown right from the first episode, which I found interesting. His peppiness is offset by a hot temper, and even though he’s pretty emotional, he’s still Sherlock Holmes through and through. Easy to see he’s got a different character arc. On a not entirely unrelated note, I want to see him and Benedict’s Frankenstein movie/play/thing. Should I go for Victorbatch or Creaturebatch?

Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson, like Martin Freeman’s John, is clearly not second banana here, and she’s just as interesting as other Watsons, just in a different way. Looking forward to her character arc/backstory. How did her patient die?

The doctor guy is a creep. I was sickened by the way he drove his patient to murder his wife. Not near as bad as CAM, but still. Not cool, dude.

The baseball scene was funny.

The writing was a little predictable, but it’s got more time to develop and find its feet, not being restricted to three ninety-minute episodes every two years. Perhaps I’ve spent too much time on TVTropes, or perhaps it feels like a lot of CBS dramas out there.

I liked that it goes back to the books and takes enough so that while it’s still Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century, it’s not a Sherlock ripoff--the beehives and Tobias Gregson, for example. There’s enough material for CBS writers to put their own unique stamp on the characters.

Now I want to see what Holmes’ dad is like.

I liked that while the one cop was skeptical about Holmes, he realizes, “OK, he’s pretty smart, maybe I should listen to him.”

Overall, the characters are well-acted, the writing isn’t totally predictable, and Miller and Liu aren’t forgettable and have good chemistry. The cinematography and the music are nothing to write home about, but Sherlock has spoiled me. I really, really, REALLY hope that Holmes and Watson don’t become a couple. If they do, I will be unhappy.

I’ll try and find the next episode soon!

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