silentauror's Blog, page 874
January 2, 2016
I just wanted to say I came to your page and saw all the Mary hatred and immediately liked you. :) Can we push her off a cliff now?
Ha, thank you!!! I’ve been riding the anti-Mary train since TEH aired, back when I felt like I was the only person in fandom who instantly despised her! It’s so good having company! :P And YES, let’s find ourselves a cliff!!!
10/10 Mycroft will die, if only because Mark Gatiss is dying to write himself a dramatic death...
10/10 Mycroft will die, if only because Mark Gatiss is dying to write himself a dramatic death scene.
Mary likes to embarrass people
Some people consider this “cute” or “smart” but personally,
I just consider it cruel, abusive, and nasty.
Some examples:
“I agree, I’m the best thing that could have happened to
you.” John fumbles and hesitates and thoroughly bungles his proposal to Mary. Mary
laughs, finishes his sentences for him, and insincerely apologises for having
laughed.
“The famous blog, finally!” Mary dramatically reading out
excerpts of John’s blog, which embarrasses him (he explicitly tells her to stop
and she doesn’t), then calls him out on shaving off the moustache that Sherlock
didn’t like, giggling at him when he denies it.
“I’m not John; I can tell when you’re lying.” Here Mary
embarrasses them both in saying that she is more capable of reading Sherlock
than John is, and that she, unlike her gullible husband, isn’t as easily
fooled. Nice! Two birds, one stone.
“He mentions him all the time to me. He never shuts up about
him.” Mary, brutally rubbing in something which almost certainly isn’t true, in
the face of Sherlock’s obvious jealousy. She says this, confirms it, then
watches his discomfort with unholy glee.
“What is that?!” Mary wants to know, referring to the tyre
lever John puts down his jeans just before going into the drug den to rescue
Isaac Whitney. Why this question, to Captain John Watson, of all people?
Obviously John can handle himself, yet Mary insists on trying to embarrass him
over this, demeaning his choice. Gross.
“You’ve been reading John’s blog. The story of how you met.”
Mary announces this in the midst of Sherlock apparently newly revived from a
serious drug overdose/suicide attempt, humiliating him in front of all those
present, including John, as to what Sherlock was thinking about at the time of
his would-be death. This, for me, is the most unforgivable thing on this list. Sherlock
overdoses, is woken up in the presence of his best friend, brother, and
supposed friend, and what does the latter do? Not-so-subtly lets everyone
present know that he’s desperately in love with her husband. Thanks, Mary! That
will definitely help him right now! Look at that smirk. Bitch.
There are so many more examples. Mary is not cute and lovable. Mary is that girl from school who knew how to say things that were funny to the group and made the victim’s skin crawl with humiliation or stinging shame. Mary is a manipulative, cruel bully. And on top of it, she’s a murderer.
Other “highlights” among my many Mary posts, lol: here, here, here, here, and here. Well, those are the longer ones, mostly. :P
Btw and not to crap on anyone’s ship, but can we just agree that it’s a teeny tiny bit hilarious...
Btw and not to crap on anyone’s ship, but can we just agree that it’s a teeny tiny bit hilarious that even dressed like a slim, dashing young man with whom Sherlock engages in professional banter/hostilities, while being just sooo very gay, he is still 1000% uninterested in Molly?
(Sorry - love Molly, but that just struck me as really funny!)
jenna221b:
anotherwellkeptsecret:
deathcabforjohnlock:
anotherwellkeptsecret:
In all...
In all seriousness, though. Let’s talk about John saving Sherlock in Sherlock’s mind palace.
Sherlock died in HLV and came back to life thinking about John. Mycroft told him not to go in shock by finding something that calmed him down. Sherlock TRIED to find John, but Mary was in the way.
Sherlock, subsequently, dives deeper and deeper until he’s alone with the worst of himself.
In TAB, not only do the roles reverse themselves, John is finally ‘found’ and successfully ‘saves’ Sherlock from his own mind, his own fears and perceived shortcomings. Sherlock doesn’t have to flee them anymore.
What’s more, Sherlock lets him. He LETS John.
Do you understand how important this is? He’s trusting John to end things.
Earlier in the episode, Sherlock says, “I have to finish this.”
But it’s John that finishes it. Saves him from himself. I think it’s pretty clear that Sherlock isn’t just trusting John with offing Moriarty, here. He’s trusting John with himself. With his heart.
LISTEN THOUGH!!! sherlock goes to the very deepest he’s ever gone in his mind palace and THERE IS JOHN!!! AT THE CENTER!!! AT THE HEART OF HIS MIND PALACE THERE IS JOHN! SAVING HIM
JOHN ISN’T JUST HIS CONDUCTOR OF LIGHT HE’S HIS HEART HE. IS. HIS. HEART.
THIS TIME IT’S JOHN LIVES= SHERLOCK LIVES
I love this!! :)))
Foreshadowing?? Mary is dressed very similarly to the villain,...
Foreshadowing?? Mary is dressed very similarly to the villain, John doesn’t recognise his own wife, she comes desperately looking for reconciliation with her husband, who is busy spending time with his actual partner, who recognises her crap disguise because an internationally-wanted assassin hasn’t figured out not to wear perfume yet, lol
My Boswell. My Boswell. This is their version of foreplay. Look...
My Boswell. My Boswell. This is their version of foreplay. Look at the glint in Sherlock’s eye in his first gif, and the wattage of his smile in the second. It’s practically indecent! :))))
Honestly, I thought during Sherlock’s whole initial deduction of Mary that they both knew it was...
Honestly, I thought during Sherlock’s whole initial deduction of Mary that they both knew it was her. John’s embarrassed responses to “You have an impish sense of humour which you’re currently deploying to ease a degree of personal anguish. You have recently married a man of a seemingly kindly disposition who has now abandoned you for an unsavoury companion of dubious morals” sure made it seem that way, at least in my eyes, lol. Seems pretty obvious…
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