Hit the nail right on the head as to why Mary's character bothers me so much. I would love to believe that there's a bigger picture to unfold in future seasons but I'm generally a pessimistic person so I'm not holding out. Honestly, I would LOVE her to be the big bad next season, she has so much potential. Obviously she's a master of deception, and Sherlock and John seemed so quick to write her off as being good and trustworthy DESPITE that she had them completely fooled for so long. I know John wouldn't talk to her for a long time while he processed everything, and then everything is good and okay and he throws the USB in the fire. And we don't know what was on that USB stick. Hoping against hope this comes back to bite everyone on the ass because that could seriously get interesting.
The reason why she is a character in her own right, is because she is very different to both Jim Moriarty and Magnussen. I completely agree that Mary doesn't do very much. For a central character, she is incredibly passive
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a)that we know so little about her past. It's always very hard to judge a character that we do not know enough about. Perhaps when we do get Mary's backstory it will change our perspective but even if we never know about Mary's back story it doesn't change what we know she had done. She has exited that world, she has married John and she definitely loves him. We may not know her past or her motivations for leaving the assassin's world but we do know why she stayed. If John finds suburban life dull, I can only imagine what Mary is going through. That is enough for me to believe that Mary is at least prepared to make the effort to leave her past behind. I think this shows a great deal of resolve and courage. If anything she lasted longer than John - who couldn't help but go into a drug den and beat up some junkies
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I do see this lack of agency as an ongoing problem in Sherlock. Hallelujah amen.
She never even got the chance to actually do something to redeem herself for what she did to Sherlock. Yes exatcly, and the thing I don't for the life od me understand why. It could have been a perfect set-up for a suspenseful dramatic rest-episode-3, a gigantic cliffhanger, and a suspenseful, dramatic series 4.
Imagine if Mary, John and Sherlock would have been allowed to remain in this "she lied about her past, but she loves John, but she shot Sherlock, but she tried not to kill him and had her reasons, but she was an assassin, but John loves her, etc."-situation for a while longer, with the threat of Magnusson looming in the background. The characters agree that they need to work together in order to defeat him, safe their lives, protect the Empire and so on, even if they have a ton of interpersonal conflict. But circumstances force them. You have the genius, the assassin and the soldier-doctor pooling resources to bring down the big bad. Mary
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a)that we know so little about her past. It's always very hard to judge a character that we do not know enough about. Perhaps when we do get Mary's backstory it will change our perspective but even if we never know about Mary's back story it doesn't change what we know she had done. She has exited that world, she has married John and she definitely loves him. We may not know her past or her motivations for leaving the assassin's world but we do know why she stayed. If John finds suburban life dull, I can only imagine what Mary is going through. That is enough for me to believe that Mary is at least prepared to make the effort to leave her past behind. I think this shows a great deal of resolve and courage. If anything she lasted longer than John - who couldn't help but go into a drug den and beat up some junkies ( ... )
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Hallelujah amen.
She never even got the chance to actually do something to redeem herself for what she did to Sherlock.
Yes exatcly, and the thing I don't for the life od me understand why. It could have been a perfect set-up for a suspenseful dramatic rest-episode-3, a gigantic cliffhanger, and a suspenseful, dramatic series 4.
Imagine if Mary, John and Sherlock would have been allowed to remain in this "she lied about her past, but she loves John, but she shot Sherlock, but she tried not to kill him and had her reasons, but she was an assassin, but John loves her, etc."-situation for a while longer, with the threat of Magnusson looming in the background. The characters agree that they need to work together in order to defeat him, safe their lives, protect the Empire and so on, even if they have a ton of interpersonal conflict. But circumstances force them. You have the genius, the assassin and the soldier-doctor pooling resources to bring down the big bad. Mary ( ... )
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