"There’s no real reason why she does it."

“There’s no real reason why she does it.”

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Amanda Abbington during Sherlocked Con 2016 on Mary Watson shooting Sherlock, confirming for the 100th time that Mary didn’t need to shoot him, obviously. (via the-7-percent-solution)

What the hell does it mean? So Mary is a psycho who goes around shooting random people for no reasons at all?
Well, of course I know she’s a psycho, but still…

Exactly: there was no reason for Mary to have shot Sherlock rather than Magnussen. Shooting Sherlock did nothing to help her problem with Magnussen, whom she apparently proceeded to leave well alone for the next six months after that. She shot Sherlock because she wanted to. It’s pretty simple.

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Shooting Sherlock did nothing to help her problem with Magnussen, whom she apparently proceeded to leave well alone for the next six months after that. She shot Sherlock because she wanted to. It’s pretty simple.

This ^^^^ is the crux of it for me, @silentauroriamthereal. She risked so much to get to Magnussen, had him at her mercy- on the ground at her feet- for what? To then let him go on his merry way, with the knowledge, of her having shot Sherlock and not be terrified that he isn’t somehow going to use this literal smoking gun against her???? SIX MONTHS, she just sat and with John’s silence and CAM’s hinkiness and what? Knitted baby booties?? How does this make any sense at all??? How can we believe that she would go to the lengths she went to in order to get to CAM and just ignore him for six months after all of that went down? It’s almost as if that six months of time didn’t exist. *Blink* and it’s gone. ;)

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@monikakrasnorada: Yes, this is one of the most inexplicable things about those missing months. And the fact that the next scenes are set at Christmas really rub it in, don’t they? I mean, they could have had a nice family meeting in August or October. But no, they made it very clear that the wedding is in May, i.e. Sherlock gets shot mid-June and from then on till Christmas - nothing. No investigation into the shooting, no progress in Mary’s case, no recovery process, no new developments on any front - the leap in time simply cannot be reasonably explained on the basis of HLV and TAB. Except there were no leap in time at all because no time had passed. 

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“There is no real reason why she does it” …. this statement by Amanda Abbington is more than interesting and bewildering in my oppinion. Because there is always a reason. Even the most insane person has a reason to do what they do. Even if no one else can understand it. Nothing happens without reason. It may be out of love, hate or fear, out of someones believe or only because someone enjoys it or gets the order to do it . But there is always a reason. Cause and effect - that’s a principle. A law of nature.

Questiion is - was this statement just an empty phrase or has it meaning. If it has meaning …… Well, nothing happens without reason. But if there is no real reason …. then what? 

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I agree, Amanda’s words are completely bewildering. She seems to dislike lying, so she often says things that are sort of true and quite spoilery rather than just stating the opposite like Moffat and Gatiss do, like Amanda’s “we all know that it happens” comment about Mary’s death. I really think though that Moftiss have pretty well-defined motives for all their villains, and that Mary’s motive is part of the long-game puzzle and knowing her motive would be potentially VERY spoilery. So maybe Amanda is flat out lying and stating the opposite of truth, because maybe her life depends on it. Lol :)

Yes. There’s no way you write a scene like that, with Mary shooting the main fucking character, without the writers knowing every nuance of her reasons. And one would presume any actor would ask them ‘what is my motivation. why am I doing this?”

On the surface, Mary shoots Sherlock because he’s caught her in her AGRA guise and she doesn’t want John to know about it. She doesn’t shoot Magnussen because she came there to get the ‘proof’ he has on her and destroy it. She never got the proof so she can’t kill Magnussen yet. With Sherlock appearing, and John downstairs, she had to make a quick getaway. 

Yet that’s a simplistic explanation. Do you really decide, split second, to shoot you husband’s bff, and supposedly your own friend? Could she not have appealed to Sherlock to keep her secret, as she later does in the hospital?

There must be a deeper motive that Amanda doesn’t want to give away because its spoilery. If she has really been tracking Sherlock and John for a long time (as Moran or Moriarty), she may have been fully prepared to kill Sherlock one day, so that when this moment occurred, she was ready to just go ahead with it then. Hopefullly we’ll get an actual explanation in S4.