the-7-percent-solution:You know what was unnecessarily cruel? Mary at Leinster Gardens after...

the-7-percent-solution:

You know what was unnecessarily cruel? Mary at Leinster Gardens after shooting the coin. She kicks the coin over for Sherlock to pick up. The man she shot a week earlier. The man who should still be in hospital. She makes him bend over, putting pressure on his bullet wound. She doesn’t care that he’s hurting. She still needs him not to tell John but acts as if she wants him to physically hurt. She still needs something from him yet she treats him like garbage. This is not what a kind woman looking for redemption does. She is cruel. She is written as a cruel character. She is cruel in TAB. She will continue to be cruel in S4.

YES. This is the “but Mary just did it because she loves John / Mary still gave Billy some money / Mary just did what she felt she had to” character that her apologists are defending. Bull. Shit. This is the heart of Mary’s character, right here. She is a horrible, horrible human being. I mean, that really shouldn’t need arguing when you consider that she chose a career in killing people for personal gain. But yet, here we are, still having that argument 2.5 years after her original villainy was explicitly revealed for all to see.