Meet Your Maker

Episode aired Jul 23, 2018
TV-PG
42m

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Aidan Quinn and Jon Michael Hill in Elementary (2012)

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Detective Bell considers leaving the NYPD after he is recommended for a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity; Holmes and Watson investigate the disappearance of a young woman who led a doub... Read allDetective Bell considers leaving the NYPD after he is recommended for a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity; Holmes and Watson investigate the disappearance of a young woman who led a double life as a financial dominatrix.Detective Bell considers leaving the NYPD after he is recommended for a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity; Holmes and Watson investigate the disappearance of a young woman who led a double life as a financial dominatrix.

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I Love This Show But Hate This Episode

I've seen every episode, love most of them, and I rarely comment, but this episode was soooo poor I had to express it.

Unimaginative, obvious, repetitive, poorly written, poor casting, behavior out of character, and concepts misrepresented with more propaganda than usual (though within norms).

The trébuchet scene is neither clever or practical, nor is it in Holmes character to use excuses or be lazy. The suspects are all unpleasant poor actors. The sensationalized sexualized economic dominatrix story illustrates a lack of imagination in a world of far more interesting low budget YouTube content, censored though it may be. So too, the InCel guys are a caricature of the worst of the MGTOW used just to inflame sexuality wars. The freaky exposition was freakishly too convenient. Typical propaganda for authority, political correctness, etc that is all too common from Hollywood, cultural engineering and manufacturing consent over the debt slaves of our great consumerist West.

Disappointment after disappointment. I hadn't even gotten half way through the show when I started writing this criticism - when I shock even myself to see my disappointment grow yet further. The non-conformist alternative lifestyles of the Burning Man-esque Maker's Fair parody was nice to include for diversity yet was weakly executed at best. I've been to Burning Man 10 times and know the community, and I've even been to a Maker's Fair so I know of what I speak. Steampunks and cyberpunks in top hat cosplay don't make a community, just as tinfoil on cardboard makes a poor substitute for a robot costume - all glitter and no substance.

What I actually liked... Joan's hat and coat, the sudden Marshal Marcus thread, ghost guns, and suicide by cop.

What worries me... Has Elementary jumped the shark? Is it downhill from here? Is it going to drift into oblivion, make a clean exit, or make a strong comeback and finale?

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When Marcus and Chantal discuss the opportunity he was offered with the U.S. Marshals, he jokingly comments that "Dr. Bell has a nice ring to it" but he has no interest in enrolling in medical school. Dr. Joseph Bell was a Scottish surgeon and an acquaintance of Arthur Conan Doyle's, and is Doyle's model for the character of Sherlock.

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Detective Marcus Bell: I got a visit yesterday from a U.S. Marshal. Deputy by the name of Strider Lincoln.
Sherlock Holmes: Strider?
Detective Marcus Bell: It's only the second-dumbest name I've ever heard. He basically offered me a job. Said I came highly recommended, but didn't mention who did the recommending. I did a little digging. Guess whose name came back. Yours.
[wry snicker]
Detective Marcus Bell: I don't get it, man. You trying to get rid of me?
Sherlock Holmes: Yeah, I am. After a fashion. You remember I fully supported your interest in becoming a sergeant two years ago? Hmm? Right up until the moment that you told me is was more about a pay increase than about the work. Hmm? Still, I thought a fire had been lit. I thought it was only a matter of time before you identified a new challenge. And then, two years later... when I was at Scotland Yard, I was only too happy to watch the moss gather under the policemen I worked with. Only to me, they were just a means of gaining access to people and places that I otherwise couldn't. And they were just happy to stay and take credit for my work. But it's never been like that with us, has it? No. You're too good a detective. So I want something better for you. Something... something more.
Detective Marcus Bell: Why the Marshals?
Sherlock Holmes: Well, I considered and dismissed the DEA and ICE because their missions often don't align with your values. The ATF, the Secret Service, they're too narrow in focus. And like many in the department, you dislike the FBI because of their rigidity and high-handedness, so that left the U.S. Marshals Service, an elite agency, renowned for their professionalism.
Detective Marcus Bell: I appreciate you looking out for me, but... I'm happy here. And if it ain't broke...
Sherlock Holmes: Yes, but it will break. The captain, he will retire. And then Watson and I, we'll be forced to seek greener pastures without our sponsor. And you'll be left working with policemen who may view you, quite unfairly, as a lesser satellite no longer tethered to the luminaries you once orbited. You'll also have to deal with a new superior who might come with their own protégés. Your access to the best, most challenging cases will be curtailed, perhaps eliminated. You will be diminished. Look, there are worse fates, yes, but there are better ones. The trick is knowing the right one when you see it.