I think of all the things, a hired Watson is the thing I look sideways at the most. I don't mind the relationship at all--I quite like it, actually. I like the show. But I don't get what line they were drawing from the text to here.

I wish she was more obviously fascinated with him and his abilities.

wish she was more obviously fascinated with him and his abilities.

There was a heck of a tell at the end of the last episode. Holmes had commented that she put her hair back, which she only did when there was a man around she found attractive, because she thinks she looks best that way. At the very end of the episode, she put her hair back, and Holmes kind of blinked at it.

There was a heck of a tell at the end of the last episode. Holmes had commented that she put her hair back, which she only did when there was a man around she found attractive, because she thinks she looks best that way. At the very end of the episode, she put her hair back, and Holmes kind of blinked at it.

I don't want her to be attracted to him, just fascinated in a non-sexual way.

I'm enjoying it, I just think it's Holmes and Watson in name only.

I think of it as playing off Holmes and Watson rather than a version of Holmes and Watson. Where Sherlock really does try be a version (and I don't think succeeds) I don't think Elementary is trying. I think the writers have read the stories, because the dialog contains extensive quotes from the stories. But they are deliberately telling a different story with different character that kind of has echos of Doyle canon. I don't know quite how to put. Think how behind Supernatural there is an echo of an alternate universe where the boys are not heroes but deluded serial killers. Not subtext - just another story than the one told that lives on the other side of the mirror. Good story telling often has that - another story different from and even opposed to the one than the tale being told. Such stories on the other side of the mirror are not subtext, yet glimpses of them show through. Elementary is not in any way the story of the Doyle canon; yet glimpses of that canon show through from the other side of the mirror.

I watched the first episode of Elementary but it didn't really grab my attention.

But it seems kind of like one of the "updated" versions of Miss Marple that I was watching on Netflix where Miss Marple acted nothing at all like the way Agatha Christie wrote her and they changed one story so there was an illicit lesbian relationship and the 2 women were the killers.

However, I am liking this season of Castle and how the show is handling Beckett and Castle's relationship. The bigger issues like how to make it look like they are still single, to the handshake instead of a hug. And the small little comments like last night when Beckett was handcuffing Castle and he comments about how much more fun it was the night before.

Also like how everyone is finding out but protecting them. I was a little worried Esposito would be mad at Ryan for keeping the secret but glad he wasn't.

Plus I liked the whole Triple X killer comes back episode and the ending.

OMG, the ad at the end of Criminal Minds was for Walgreens saying to go get advice from a pharmacist "before you do anything crazy."

Missed Castle this week because of the storm. Hawaii 5-0 got pushed back a week, tho.

Castle is on Hulu. It's an intense one.

Yeah, Castle was good, especially for a serious Castle episode. Though I don't remember the villain's original appearance on the show at all.