So, to start with, I HATED her introduction in TEH. I HATED that she didn’t side with John and didn’t let him have his moment of anger. She doesn’t even know Sherlock, she knew how much John was hurting! Stand by his side and then wait to try and talk to him about it later.
I hate what a liar she is and how she manipulated John. I hate that she used to (probably still does) kill people for money.
Nonny, I absolutely hate that when S4 came around and we finally got a new season of Sherlock, instead of dealing with all the things that happened in S3 and maybe getting to learn a little about John’s past, we instead got TST. “I want a whole episode revolving around Mary and her past” said no one ever.
I hate that John was sidelined so we could get her boring story. And Nonny, I was bored to death during TST. I have never been that bored during a BBC Sherlock episode. It just went on and on and on. I hate that at the beginning of the episode we get Sherlock and Mary comparing John to a dog and that we have Sherlock telling John that he’d rather work with Mary because she’s better at it than him. What the fuck were Mofftiss smoking when they wrote that crap??
I hate that she was still a selfish piece of shit, right until the end. Not even thinking of her so-called loved husband and daughter before defying the laws of physics to take that bullet, which then apparently erased all the horrible crap she’d done up until then. Sure Jan.
I hate that she then continued to haunt the show as the worst ghost ever. I hate her stupid post-death DVDs. Like who in the writers room thought that was a good idea??
I absolutely loath that she got to give the last word of the series, and likely the last word of the show, and those words included “who you are doesn’t really matter.” Fuck you Mary. Fuck you Moffitss.
Most of all I hate the fact that her introduction was the beginning of the downfall of something that I loved. I hate that Mofftiss gave her character more importance than she deserved. I hate that, even though we were told otherwise, her introduction and use was to keep John and Sherlock apart and to make sure they no-homoed the queerbaiting mess they made. I hate that Mofftiss tried to sell a moralless, selfish, abusive murderer as “strong female character” and that some people actually bought it.
It makes me sad that Mofftiss dug their hole so deep that it is unfixable without some extreme stretch of reality, such as MP or coma.
In conclusion, to quote a good friend of mine: I hate Mary, did you know?
let her kill more people! let her try to kill someone else we love! let her get her ass kicked in an epic showdown! let her show no remorse! free her!
honestly if jim moriarty was like “hang on guys i wanna be redeemed let me save john watson for no reason at all” it’d be just the same and it’d be Terrible
Never mind Holmes and Watson, it’s the ladies of Sherlock who shine in a poll of the most popular female characters in the history of British TV.
The survey was conducted by BBC Worldwide of fans throughout the UK, the rest of Europe, Asia and North America to find out which ladies resonate most with lovers of British television.
And, to little surprise, Amanda Abbington’s super spy Mary Morstan has come first in the poll, turning up in the top three of rankings in all of the territories that were polled by BBC Worldwide. Of course, she also received the most votes overall as well.
Whereas fans in Europe selected Mary for her “British sense of humour and Britishiness”, Chinese and Indian fans tended to admire her confidence and those in the US found her intelligence most appealing.
“Wow! This is brilliant,” Amanda Abbington said today (February 13). “Thank you for rating Mary Morstan your number one!
“That makes me very happy. I love Mary and I loved bringing her to life. She was a complicated, fun, dangerous, beautifully scrappy character to play and though she is no more, Long Live Mary Morstan!”
Even more impressive for Sherlock is that Una Stubbs’ Baker Street landlady Mrs Hudson finished second overall, ahead of Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennett, Miss Marple and even Missy from Doctor Who.
Below is the full ranking of the most popular female characters in the history of British TV:
1. Mary Morstan – Sherlock
2. Mrs Hudson – Sherlock
3. Elizabeth Bennett – Pride and Prejudice
4. Miss Marple – Miss Marple
5. Missy – Doctor Who
6. Sybil Fawlty – Fawlty Towers
7. Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham – Downton Abbey
8. Hyacinth Bouquet – Keeping of Appearances
Sherlock had similar success in last year’s BBC Worldwide poll, when Benedict Cumberbatch’s Great Detective topped The Doctor and Luther to be named the world’s favourite British TV character.
The good news is that there’s a solid chance we’ll be seeing more of most of the Sherlockgang, since co-creator Steven Moffat recently promised that the series will return after a lengthy hiatus.
I would like to issue a correction to everybody who says that Mary dies in the novels. There is no reference to what happens to her. There is only a reference to Dr. Watson’s sad loss. It doesn’t say she dies. Nowhere in those books does it say that Mary Morstan dies. So there.
I think this is a
very important question that often gets ignored when discussing the
starting point for EMP.
Sherlock cannot have memories of
people, places, and things that he’s never seen.
So if HLV is where EMP begins, it must
pass the POV test. It doesn’t.
CAM’s MP is introduced at the end of
TEH. How does Sherlock know that CAM has a MP? How does Sherlock
recreate that same MP in his own mind in HLV?
The bomb fire video is not a video when
it’s shown in TEH. It’s inside CAM’s MP so it’s a thought or a
memory. How does Sherlock take CAM’s memory and turn it into an
actual video or a thought of his own in HLV?
Why does the line “Put that on a t-shirt” repeat?
When Mary points the gun at Sherlock,
he does a quick deduction.
How can Sherlock have a memory of this
scene from TEH? He wasn’t there…
If HLV is EMP, then TEH is EMP as well.
POV matters. It can’t be ignored.
Take TAB out of the equation. Fucky
HLV leads directly into fucky TST. And with it goes the POV weirdness. Balloon John and the changes to John’s flat further prove that
TEH/MHR is EMP. Sherlock can’t know what he doesn’t know.
S4 is telling us that this entire show is EMP. HLV is not where EMP begins, it’s the
beginning of the end.
Brand New Pictures from Sherlocked Oct 2017 Pt 44 – Museum & Costume pictures Pt 12 –Props Display Box 2 Pt 3 – These
are my photos, so please do not repost Anywhere. You may make Edits with these
if you wish, but please put a link to this post as credit, thanks!(As you can see in some pics these actually have die-cut holes in them, which looks lovely. Also note Janine’s surname change!?)
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