No, Lou, it isn’t but that is not what happened to Molly Hooper. She was reduced to the start of her character arch just for the sake of drama and the (gay) male protagonist, who obviously has not once loved her back in the same way she loved him.
Molly Hooper was written poorly and she deserved more!
Can’t agree Lou.. You misunderstood your character. She was not what you thought she was.
She agreed with fans way back thinking the slapping was awesome and badass so she’s had this problem for a while tbh.
Again, patronising. Because it comes from a woman makes it no less demeaning, many of us have read Chekhov. I’ve never been a fan of Loo, she’s said some iffy stuff on Twitter, and especially her take on the slapping as @1895itsallfine points out.
okay i know i already reblogged this but i have something to say now
molly still loving sherlock is not the problem here. molly is human, and so she can’t be expected to get over her feelings like nothing happened. it takes some people years to get over shit like that. that’s not the problem. it’s a relatively human character flaw–and while some of us might believe she should be over it–it doesn’t mean she is.
the problem is [euros and] the writers taking advantage of that part of molly and blowing it out of proportion, making it a plot point to exploit both molly and sherlock. especially when they haven’t touched on molly’s feelings for sherlock explicitly since season 2. that is why we assumed she was over it, because no one brought it up for YEARS.
and so, that is what i am angry about. i don’t think loo is wrong, i think she’s looking at it from a character perspective and not how the writers mistreated molly. there is nothing wrong with molly. what’s wrong is how she was presented in tfp.
^this. I think it comes down to the writers dropping the ball on this one. Big time.
We cannot blame her for any of this. She is not wrong. We are not wrong. End. Full stop.
As I was saying, people need to knock it off with this evil!fandom stuff. Just because he deleted his Twitter doesn’t mean people were saying terrible things.
And everyone, I was on Twitter monitoring what was said to him. Fans were voicing their disappointment, of course, but I saw no threats or anything extremely rude, distasteful, etc. He probably felt awful because no one liked the episode. And he deleted.
This is not a case of evil!fandom.
People could have sent him DM’s but there’s no way to know.
The BNF’s namely the cishet gang, are now shaming us on twitter for reacting to the queerbaiting. Led by self appointed Protector General, the mob is forming to tell the ‘different’ the ‘other’ and the ‘outsider’ that we have no right to react. Evidently we caused Ben Caron to close his Twitter. I don’t know of one person who even mentioned him today. So the wars begin.
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