Every time I see Mary's face I feel like slamming it into a wall. I never thought I could HATE a character this much. The fact that she somehow became the One True Voice of Reason in the eleventh hour just makes it worse. The moment where she died was the

Hey Nonny,

Yeah, I agree with you there on Mary being a smug asshole. I hate what they did to her character; they were building her up to be an exciting and interesting villain, the next Moriarty, and she could have had an epic showdown between John and Sherlock. Her death could have been spectacular… not… whatever the hell fuckery her death was after establishing IN UNIVERSE that her death couldn’t happen the way it did.

She could have been great, and Mofftiss could have really let Amanda shine. Instead, they gave her a terribly dull backstory episode, replaced John with her, and just… really turfed her rather than the opposite of what I think Mofftiss were trying to achieve with her character.