Their Last Bow

This was very well done! The only thing that would have made it a 10 for me was to see Morland and Sherlock together again with the hope that they might work together again. I so want there to be special episodes in the future... please make that work on any network or streaming platform. Would love to see Sherlock and Joan together again! Such a shame that such an intelligently written and executed show can't remain plausible for many years to come. Please make it happen!

It came to a end not because it was fading with good acting and writting just new mealiness shows, i never tired of the episodes it was as strong in the end as the beginning and who knows maybe it comes back meanwhile the industry left us with reality tv and NCIS Reno.

Thanks to all for the once a week escape from real life.

Thanks. It's been a great run. It's been a pleasure to watch intelligent people going about their business for these last seven years. You'll be missed. Thanks to everyone involved in the production of this series.

For many, many seasons I have continued to enjoy Elementary for what it is, even while I wish it was more. It is a product, and to be fair if it were my money making it, I would want it to play safe, be consistent, and do what has proven to work for as long as it could. As a viewer though, the high production standards and access to resources of all types has always led me to feel frustrated by the way it plays to genre and endlessly in its comfort zone. It is no great surprise that this final season does the same as those that have gone before.

As with other large events, the exile to London is so fleeting as to not be worth mentioning; it was billed as a big end to what was presumed to be the final season, but in reality it is just something to be gotten out of - and indeed it is only one episode and we are back in the formula in New York, despite all the endless internal reasons that shouldn't happen so easily. From here it continues just as it always has - which is not at all a bad thing. It remains very professionally done, very slick, very easy to watch, and a very decent network television product. Problem is that the majority of people do not get excited about products that they are loyal to - mostly they are loyal because they know what they are getting, they are happy with the price, and it is easy to get. So it is with Elementary I suspect, because as a product I come back to it for these reasons, not because I am really caught up in the narratives.

I appreciate that the show does try; and in this season the reduced episode run helps the main "Facebook is a villain" plot by not having much padding in and around it (unlike last seasons' unexpected expansion). That is not to say that the narrative does all it could have done - it plays it pretty straight, using it as a topical and interesting ideal, but never more than just another villain to be outsmarted and caught. Outside of this the mysteries are the usual over-elaborate but well-explained crimes which get sorted in 42 minutes, and the "character moments" are not much but benefit from good actors and character familiarity.

Elementary ends now, and as a fan who watched it all, I'm glad. At one time it was a great show, but it gradually stripped that back to just be a great product. I enjoyed that product, but it always frustrated me that it didn't use its resources to try to be more than it was. This season does more of that, and I enjoyed those elements of it, and it bowed out in a decent but uninspiring manner.

I was amazed by the final episode of Elementary. It far surpassed what I had expected. The line "as long as we are together..." will carry me through not having my weekly experience of these characters.

Of course Watson's son had to be named Arthur! It is only fitting.

The love affair that was never fully explored in the series between Watson and Holmes is one of the best since Pride and Prejudice was written. It doesn't take steamy love scenes to demonstrate what they had, and continue to have. It showed what true human bonding can be about, what can truly happen when two like souls find each other.

My hat is off to all who finished this project in such a fine manner. You did the series proud!