but we're SUPPOSED TO find mary funny. we're supposed to like her "impish sense of humour". mofftiss overreached having her shoot sherlock to prove their point that she's a skilled assassin so we don't but they're not foreshadowing her as M. it's a way to

friend, lemme tell you a thing. mary is moriarty and john’s going to take her ass out.

right after sherlock said that he was going to save mary he clutched his chest where she shot him and doubled over in agony. he can’t even lie to himself about liking her. in the after interviews mark and amanda practically stood up and shouted at us that mary was the villain. she’s lit differently - more harshly, less forgiving, starkly - than anyone else. she wears a red coat while everyone else is in black. she’s cruel to sherlock AND to john. she is NOT meant to be likeable to anyone who is paying attention.

listen to me. this show is not made for the casuals. we have been told in every way possible that this is a show about looking deeper, solving the puzzle, finding the truth. they want us to look beyond the surface. they JUST GAVE US 90 MINUTES OF META ABOUT SHERLOCK’S SEXUALITY AND PASSED IT OFF AS AN EPISODE.

mark and steven do not want to make a show about the three amigos. this is about sherlock and john, just the two of them against the rest of the world, always two of us, forever.