welovethebeekeeper:silentauroriamthereal:Just a reminder that Mary being a thoroughly hate-able char
welovethebeekeeper:silentauroriamthereal:Just a reminder that Mary being a thoroughly hate-able character is canon. It’s all there in the script and on their faces, even if Ms Abbington wasn’t put fully in the picture before HLV. Consider: -there’s an actual list of people who hate her. And they’re not just fans. Actual characters. An entire list, put together by the world’s most observant man. Distant relatives of John’s who have met her probably all of once, at a shower or something. On the hate list. I’d wager some of the notable absences from the wedding, too. Mike Stamford is debatable. He did send a telegram, after all. But what about John’s own sister?? Hate list. I’d put money on it. Who are the rest of them? Is the hate list only comprised of wedding guests? (If so, that’s a LOT of people who hate the bride, proportionally speaking!) Or is it any human being that Sherlock has ever witnessed Mary interacting with up to this point? Either way: there’s a hate list. That’s canon. -the many petty, mean things that Mary does. See the above photo, where she, at her own wedding, the day upon which John’s having chosen her above all other humans in the world, seemingly feels it necessary to find a sensitive spot of Sherlock’s and lean on it hard. At this point, she already knows that he’s jealous of John’s interaction with his former commanding officer, but she can’t leave it alone. Look at the expression on her face, leaning in maliciously and rubbing it in, like a mean fourteen-year-old. (Grow the fuck up, Mary!) Making a point of calling Sherlock on having youtubed serviette folding, as if that’s such a crime. Her doing so (“I’m not John”) ridicules both Sherlock and John all at once. It’s nasty. It’s unnecessary. -the day that Sherlock returns from the seeming dead, Mary was truly awful. Obviously finding out that his best friend’s suicide, done right before his eyes, was fake all along and that Sherlock had been alive for the past two years without having told him, having let him grieve painfully, was a huge, terribly emotional moment for John. And it’s John, so everyone present would have known to expect an emotional reaction (although perhaps Mary had never seen John as emotional before that point). Still: anyone would react emotionally to that! John being John reacts without hearing all of Sherlock’s reasons, and Sherlock, for some reason (thanks, Gatiss!!) doesn’t tell him that John’s life was at risk and continued to be as Sherlock was hunting down Moriarty’s network in those two years. I still argue regularly that Sherlock should have chosen a moment where he and John were on their own, in private, so that John’s naturally emotional reaction could have happened in private, and that they could discuss everything on their own, but that was Sherlock’s poor judgement. Regardless, Mary should have at least offered to absent herself and let these two have a moment. Even if Sherlock hadn’t been perceptive enough to plan it better, Mary certainly could have clued in to the notion that they needed to talk it out on their own. Perhaps she wanted to stay to offer John her emotional support, you suggest. But no: not only did she stay, she sided with Sherlock! She reacts with slight outrage/disbelief right at the start, but she’s very quick to switch to Sherlock’s side, agreeing that John is overreacting (!!), admitting that she hates his moustache - seriously, if there was ever a time for a tactful white lie, that was it! - and then, instead of hearing John’s side of it, letting him vent and remembering that her own opinion is completely irrelevant at this point, she has to assert to John how much she likes this man who’s just hurt John ENORMOUSLY, whose death ripped him apart and whose return is no easier. All she needed to do was be there for him, listen to him, let him talk it out. The time for her own opinions would have come later on. Instead, Mary puts herself in the centre of the drama, assuring Sherlock that she would bring off their reconciliation by talking John around. Why on earth was she still back there with Sherlock instead of with John, waiting for the cab? She ditched John as though Sherlock was the cool new kid in class. Awful. I could go on and on and on (evidently), but this is all just pointing out the basics of Mary’s character. The writers/show-runners are always saying how “likeable” Mary is, and yet they wrote in a hate list. They wrote in all of this stuff - every time Mary corrects John’s perceptions or subtly makes fun of his abilities or undercuts him in some other way - that’s not likeable. And that’s leaving out the fact that she’s a person who willingly chose a career in killing people for money, shot the title character of the show with clear intent to kill (Sherlock’s deleted line about “nobody (being) perfect” is proof of that; he indicates that she intended to shoot him in the centre of the chest and missed), and then threatened him and went to meet him with a loaded gun & silencer again after that. That’s almost icing on the cake when you consider everything else! Then you can add the fact that she never once thanks Sherlock for having saved her from Magnussen’s blackmail, or even wishes him well on his suicide mission - ugh. Just all of it. Ugh. Bottom line: not a likeable character. Sorry. Excellent. -- source link
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