I enjoyed this Elementary. I was annoyed by the gratuitous slamming of Snowden. Yeah I know, fictional character - but labeled Snowden in blinking neon. Only the real Snowden went out of his way to avoid exposing people in deep cover - not only agents but sources. Also the real Snowden had no trouble getting dates - had a live in girl friend who was very conventionally attractive. So a minor annoyance. They plot did not required making Ezra/Snowden an exceptionally loathsome murdered. If they decided to make him the bad guy, they did not need to take the gratuitous swipes. I get the impression that the episode writer really hated Snowden, and decided to just make him a cartoon villain. Still like the espisode, cause if I let political disagreement stop me from watching otherwise good stuff, I'd have a pretty short sad list of things I could watch. But still going to bitch about it.

See, I read the making him a murderer as a way out of having to deal with the moral quandry of whether finding him and turning him in was ethical.

That's how I took it too.

And the reason they had him threaten to expose uncover agents, and have trouble getting dates?

I missed a couple Mentalist things and don't have interest/energy to go back:

1) Why didn't Jane attend the wedding?
2) Wait, I forgot the other thing. Shit. Right! Where did the wedding dress come from?

About the Mentalist:

1. I believe Jane was outside coordinating the re-enactors for the 21-gun salute and the carriage. His misty-eyed appearance at the door during the ceremony lends itself to believing he had wrangled that job for himself as much so that he wouldn't fall prey to a public expression of his own pain (such as was seen as he walked away after having viewed pics of baby Benjamin right after the birth) as to give the gift of Capital-R Romance to the bride and groom.

2. I don't really know for sure if the audience is supposed to assume Van Pelt just drags the thing around with her. Napa is not that far away from Sacramento. They might not have needed to stay in a motel for the investigation, even. It certainly would not have been difficult for her to make a quick run home to get it. Hour and a half, each way. Less if she lets Jane drive.

ETA: 3. I just realized I just explained California geography to a California resident. Sorry. I spend wayyyyyyyyy too much time explaining California geography to other fan fic writers in the fandom from other parts of the world.

hee hee. Windsparrow, I got a kick out of your description even though I know the geography too.

Oh! I thought I had answered this this morning. Oops.

So she has a wedding dress and all the fixings on hand from the former engagement, is the theory?

So she has a wedding dress and all the fixings on hand from the former engagement, is the theory?

Yes. Presumably she wasn't totally bullshitting with all that goop she was talking to the other bride after Jane told her to talk the woman into going through with her wedding so that he could have the killer reveal himself at the reception.

I love James Spader but Lizzie is so. fucking. stupid. that it BURNS.

why is she searching for the secret files on her home fucking laptop?

Why is she hiding shit (badly) from her husband? She works for the FBI, she can just say "sorry, honey, it's classified" and that's the end of it. Instead, she's hiding shit under a legal pad and crossing out shit SHE WROTE DOWN on said legal pad.

(I've accepted the ridiculousness of submitting the bullet without paperwork, although if the shit was THAT redacted, they probably wouldn't have given it to her in the first damned place)

But, I will not accept "I forgot my badge, can I just look around while you check". Seriously? It's a fucking FBI storage facility and anyone can just roll in? SERIOUSLY.

I really want to like this show, but the situations don't make any damned sense and they expect you to believe that all of this shit "just happens" to Lizzie.

The whole "I'm going to talk to you and you're going to tell me your evil plan because I read people" bit. And a trained killer who makes bodies disappear completely knows how to tie fucking zip ties so that the stupid FBI agent stays in the freaking wheelchair!!!!

And the "paralytic drug" trope always irritates me because if you are paralyzed, you can't freaking breathe. Also, chemistry-istas, is it possible to have a drug that completely dissolves flesh and bone, but doesn't damage the finish of the tub?

Ugh. If James Spader wasn't so good . . .