crylock:johnlocktm:when Mary isn’t even part of the cult of righteous women because she’s not...

crylock:

johnlocktm:

when Mary isn’t even part of the cult of righteous women because she’s not righteous at all :^)

this was such an explicit decision tho like going off of everything in the episode (Mary first appearing wearing a black “wedding dress,” Mary being a suffragette, Mary being disregarded by John, Mary’s secretive comings and goings without John’s knowledge) Mary had everything in place to be part of the cult of women who are “supposed to win,” yet she wasn’t part of them…..hm…..really makes u think doesn’t it……

Exactly! Here’s my take on it from my meta on Mary and Birdy Edwards:

But Mary wasn’t a ‘bride’ in TAB. She wasn’t part of the conspiracy.

Yeah, no, she wasn’t explicitly in the cult. Which, on first viewing, made little sense to me. But look, they’re saving her for bigger things in S4. Why would they want to waste her lovely evilness as a throwaway moment in TAB? The very fact that she wasn’t SHOWN as part of the cult of women–when Molly, Janine, and even Mary’s MAID were there, is a bit weird, isn’t it? I mean, who hired the fucking maid anyway? So clearly, Mary is somehow involved with the cult yet she stays aloof and ‘hidden’ in that cult-reveal scene.

Also, Mary is supposedly working for Mycroft in TAB, yet she just figured out about the cult right before she meets Sherlock and John in the crypt. Really? She just figured it out? when she’s a) set up as one of the smartest women in London so if there is an underground feminist thing she’d be part of it and b) her own (otherwise useless) maid is in the cult? Yeah, no, that doesn’t really work. Clearly Mary does know about the cult and she is lying in this scene. Which makes her more suspicious than the women who are actually outted.

She would have been LESS villainous if she’d been openly in the cult. After all, they weren’t bad people really, just oppressed. That would have made more sense with her put-open-and-ignored-wife guise in TAB. But no.