A random thought about Mary Morstan
When John is about to propose to her, she teases him by saying she's the best thing that could have happened to him.
I don't think that's just teasing. I think she's telling the truth: things could have happened to him that were bad, but his falling in love with Mary precluded them from happening.
I wonder what they were.
But that's as far as my thoughts can go, before they become lost in the tangle that is what we know, or think we're supposed to believe, about "Mary Morstan". I think we're supposed to like her, to believe that she's a good person at heart, to believe that John loves her despite all he could have learned about her past, that she loves John: see that Sherlock sees her as a fact of the new reality rather than someone to be excised from John's life.
I think she was conceived of and presented as a female Jason Bourne: very very good at what she does and unwilling to do it anymore. But the degree of coincidence all this requires is very, very high. Somewhere, an Infinite Improbability Generator is operating.
I don't think that's just teasing. I think she's telling the truth: things could have happened to him that were bad, but his falling in love with Mary precluded them from happening.
I wonder what they were.
But that's as far as my thoughts can go, before they become lost in the tangle that is what we know, or think we're supposed to believe, about "Mary Morstan". I think we're supposed to like her, to believe that she's a good person at heart, to believe that John loves her despite all he could have learned about her past, that she loves John: see that Sherlock sees her as a fact of the new reality rather than someone to be excised from John's life.
I think she was conceived of and presented as a female Jason Bourne: very very good at what she does and unwilling to do it anymore. But the degree of coincidence all this requires is very, very high. Somewhere, an Infinite Improbability Generator is operating.