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Engaging would be the world's most pointless use of my time, but I do have to come here to vent a little bit about having seen Molly Hooper dismissed as "we know little about her except ... she doesn't mind dead bodies" and that everything else came from Lou Brealey, not the script.
Doesn't. Mind. Dead. Bodies.
First off, she's a coroner, which is a tad above "doesn't mind" and heading well into "career." Second, she's not just "a" coroner, she gives every evidence of being THE coroner in those parts; she works directly with Scotland Yard, she never mentions a boss (her only citation of the people she works with is "the others"), and she apparently has the ability to set her own hours/reschedule "the others" because she waltzes into the morgue and takes over with no notice.
It's not hard to deduce that Molly's the damn department head, not from Lou, but from the scripts!
Not just the boss, but the boss who has the chops to search for a specific corpse and then make that body disappear, after having shoved it out a window. Molly may be jittery around Sherlock, but on her own turf, she's got clout.
And speaking of jittery around Sherlock - let's have that discussion. Let's talk about how it's sooooooooooo sexist to write that Molly puts on lipstick to attract Sherlock and then takes it off when he insults it... but sooooooooo twu wuv that John shaves his mustache off when Sherlock insults it. Let's talk about how pathetic it is that Molly dates a guy who looks just like Sherlock... but it's hilarious that John's last date before Mary was a dark-haired woman wearing a long coat and a scarf who has the line "Don't compare me to Sherlock Holmes." Let's talk about how wimpy Molly is because Sherlock drags her from meal plans with friends and wheedles her into anything... but how devoted and loyal John is to let Sherlock break up all but one of his attempts to have outside relationships and wheedles him into anything.
Do LET. US. have the conversation about how horrifically sexist Molly's character is for being female and lonely and liking cats when there's so little difference between her behavior towards Sherlock and John's... except, y'know, that Molly has a career of her own and Molly says a lot more to the point than "a bit not good" when Sherlock pushes his shit too far.
"Don't know anything except she doesn't mind dead bodies" my wide white ass.
Wow, I hope I can keep from ranting at Gridlock. I'm on the Women in Sherlock panel.
Doesn't. Mind. Dead. Bodies.
First off, she's a coroner, which is a tad above "doesn't mind" and heading well into "career." Second, she's not just "a" coroner, she gives every evidence of being THE coroner in those parts; she works directly with Scotland Yard, she never mentions a boss (her only citation of the people she works with is "the others"), and she apparently has the ability to set her own hours/reschedule "the others" because she waltzes into the morgue and takes over with no notice.
It's not hard to deduce that Molly's the damn department head, not from Lou, but from the scripts!
Not just the boss, but the boss who has the chops to search for a specific corpse and then make that body disappear, after having shoved it out a window. Molly may be jittery around Sherlock, but on her own turf, she's got clout.
And speaking of jittery around Sherlock - let's have that discussion. Let's talk about how it's sooooooooooo sexist to write that Molly puts on lipstick to attract Sherlock and then takes it off when he insults it... but sooooooooo twu wuv that John shaves his mustache off when Sherlock insults it. Let's talk about how pathetic it is that Molly dates a guy who looks just like Sherlock... but it's hilarious that John's last date before Mary was a dark-haired woman wearing a long coat and a scarf who has the line "Don't compare me to Sherlock Holmes." Let's talk about how wimpy Molly is because Sherlock drags her from meal plans with friends and wheedles her into anything... but how devoted and loyal John is to let Sherlock break up all but one of his attempts to have outside relationships and wheedles him into anything.
Do LET. US. have the conversation about how horrifically sexist Molly's character is for being female and lonely and liking cats when there's so little difference between her behavior towards Sherlock and John's... except, y'know, that Molly has a career of her own and Molly says a lot more to the point than "a bit not good" when Sherlock pushes his shit too far.
"Don't know anything except she doesn't mind dead bodies" my wide white ass.
Wow, I hope I can keep from ranting at Gridlock. I'm on the Women in Sherlock panel.