notagarroter:fuckityfardisgetinthetardis:acafanmom:nesbola:Don’t be like all the rest.As I wrote in
notagarroter:fuckityfardisgetinthetardis:acafanmom:nesbola:Don’t be like all the rest.As I wrote in my LONG meta, this was the moment that really sold me on Mary, because to my mind there’s no one to lie to here.She doesn’t know it’s Billy - she’s walking away without another look in that last gif - so there’s one to perform to; she gives him money when no one else is looking, for no one’s benefit but his, and that seems to me to echo what’s in her heart. When she tells John that people like Magnussen should be killed, when Sherlock deduces that she’s “Disillusioned,” and here - my feeling is that they all add up to a woman who may have, in the past, done the wrong things for the right reasons.Agreed. Sad this doesn’t have more notes, yet metas with no logical reasoning that constantly focus on the apparent negative aspects of Mary’s character get a buttload of notes.Interesting… but I think my interpretation of this momentis rather different.Isay this as a huge Mary fan, so this should in no way be taken as any kind ofMary hate. But I think it’s reallyinteresting how they chose to play this moment. Yes, Mary eventually gives Billy some change, but her first instinct isto walk right by him. Does this make herbad? Evil? No, it makes her perfectly ordinary – most peopledon’t give money to every homeless person they see. Plus, she has a lot of other stuff on hermind, so I think she can be forgiven for not paying him much attention. ButBilly has a job to do, and he has to get her attention before she goes muchfarther. And Billy, as we know, hishimself an excellent reader of people – almost as good as Sherlock Holmes. So what does he say to get her to stop? He doesn’t say “Come on, luv, have aheart” or “Please, I haven’t eaten all day.” He doesn’t bother to appeal to her empathy orconscience or sense of guilt. Instead,he says, “Don’t be like all the rest,”and in that moment, he nails her character: Mary doesn’t like to think ofherself as ordinary, just one of the crowd. She became a spy-assassin in the first place because she clearly viewedherself as exceptional.Andthis is exactly what Sherlock calls her on a few minutes later: "The doctor’s wife must be a littlebit bored by now.“ As hard as shetries to be sweet, ordinary, unassuming Mary Morstan, that life has neversuited her, and it never will. Sheyearns to be different, to be special, to court danger and test the bounds ofmorality—and that’s what makes her fit so beautifully with John and withSherlock (in their own ways). That’s whyJohn chose her, even if he didn’t realize it at the time. And why Sherlock can’t help but like andrespect her, even after she shot him. -- source link
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