Sherlock series three, writing round-up, Sherlock Remix
Hi, everybody!
I was asked by a friend what I thought of the new series of Sherlock, and it ended up being so long that I thought I might as well post it. ( SPOILERS, obviously, for the series that will end on Sunday (and which begins airing on January 19 in the US on PBS). )
I was asked by a friend what I thought of the new series of Sherlock, and it ended up being so long that I thought I might as well post it. ( SPOILERS, obviously, for the series that will end on Sunday (and which begins airing on January 19 in the US on PBS). )
In that first paragraph, you've laid out what I'm sure M&G thought was sufficient reasoning to get Mary not to shoot CAM when she had him cowering at her feet, but all I'm seeing is how little it holds together, and how little TPTB must think of us. (These are not questions I expect you to answer - they are just me venting my frustrations.) How on earth would Mary shooting CAM have led to John's arrest? No one other than Mary and Sherlock knows John is in the building - Janine certainly didn't see him when she buzzed Sherlock in, and Mary herself only found out because she asked. If the show wants to posit that there were too many security cameras around recording John's entrance (by Sherlock's side), that's a bit of a non-starter as well: either that would only prove that John is one of two unauthorized people in CAM's office, or they would show that John was busy tending to Janine when the shot was fired. And, as you say, the bullet in CAM would not match John's gun, and John would show no signs of having fired a gun. Plus, even if that shifts all of the suspicion to Sherlock, he's frankly in a good place for it - he's the exonerated detective who proved that he wasn't a murderous mastermind, so it's unlikely anyone official would want to go down that path with him again. Plus there's always Mycroft, who has allegedly been seeking ways to bring down CAM.
Your point about Mary's untrusting response (and plan for the future) is exactly right, and has made me reconsider her. How shooting Sherlock works out to be a good option for her is never explained, really. And this to the man who made a vow to protect her! Why couldn't she have called upon that vow, at the very least?
I see what you're saying about Mary echoing the worst of Sherlock's behavior, and I do agree, but I think what differentiates them for John is that he wasn't wronged by Mary the first time around the way he was doubly wronged by Sherlock - do you know what I mean? Mary was fleeing her past, changing herself, and along the way met him and fell in love with him. While he might wish she'd trusted him enough to tell him what she'd done, he won't say, "Those things you did before I knew you matter more to me than what you've done since I knew you, and what you've done since then is love me." Whereas with Sherlock, he loved him and believed in him, and Sherlock just pissed all over that twice, which has to be making John feel like a real idiot.
And yes, I really don't like the whole John-chooses-psychopaths-to-complete-him thing the episode tried to set up. As I said before, it's more interesting to think about what those mad, bad, and dangerous people want from John.
Ugh, the whole thing is so frustrating. But you inspired me, several months ago, to write my own take on Mary, so hopefully mine will suit you better than the show's!
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