Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
When it was announced that Fringe's John Noble would be recurring on Elementary this year as Morland Holmes, it was hard not to think of it as perfect casting. Noble was fresh off a two season stint on FOX's Sleepy Hollow where he played a *slight spoiler* relative of Tom Mison's Icabod. And while Noble was excellent in the role, there wasn't that resemblance factor. That clincher. Here, there is. And when Morland turned around on the roof to face his son at the end of "The Past is Parent," it was clear that Noble was perfectly chosen for this part. He and star Jonny Lee Miller could easily be blood.
So that was certainly a cool moment. And I'll easily give this episode the line "My compliment to the virgins whose blood you bathe in." And I anticipate many more Holmes Family barbs and bickering to come. The downside here however was that Morland was only in the final thirty seconds of the episode. Yes, just as Sherlock himself had probably spent much of his life waiting for his father to arrive, we too had to wait on Morland to show up. And that works just fine when viewers don't know who's coming. Because then you'd get that "ah ha!" moment when he spins around and - hey! - it's John Noble. But we all knew it was Noble. The casting was part of the big pre-hype for the season. So to hold Morland back in this way was fairly frustrating.
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