This.
The bullet gets one third of the way there, THEN she jumps in front of it. No, sorry, we’re talking 800fps or better, which means it takes 0.015 seconds or less to hit him from where she’s standing. Superman may move that fast, Humans don’t.
Just saw the episode, and wondered if she was going to just shoot out the aquarium glass to cause a distraction. And I also wondered if the whole Mary-is-killed bit was just a fakeout to allow the secret agent to establish a new identity somewhere else. That would seem to match the ridiculous level of complexity that this show seems to love, but then again, they already did the faked death bit, when Sherlock didn’t die after jumping off that building.
In short, I thought that making the story overly convoluted does not mean the writing is automatically clever.
In that particular aquarium (which is very nice, if somewhat overpriced), shooting out the aquarium glass (if even possible) would cause a helluva lot more than a “distraction” from where they were standing - there’s a whole lot more water above them and at best they’d all be washed down the corridor in a tumult if they didn’t actually get drowned or smashed against something hard. And that’s not even considering the various aquatic creatures being washed along with them.
Ok finally saw the episode. I didn’t think it was too bad though I agree the part at the very beginning with Sherlock being all crazy in the meeting seemed really off. I was never a big Mary fan (once I refreshed myself on the past episodes) so I wasn’t too sad to see her go. I don’t understand why she had to throw herself in front of the bullet though. Why not just…push him out of the way? Probably would have been just as effective.
One thing I don’t understand though, is why is John made at Sherlock? It doesn’t make sense. As far as I can tell, he didn’t do anything that directly resulted in her dying.
And as for my friend. Yes. She’s convinced this season they’re going to come out as a couple. That the signs have been there all along. And while I admit, there’s been a LOT of queerbaiting on the show, it’s just not going to happen. It doesn’t fit with the show or the characters. Though she (and her friends) are convinced that the Moffet interview is just a lie to throw them off. Something about Moffet writing Sherlock slash fics before coming on as a writer for the show?? Lol I have no idea.
First, he vowed he would protect them, and he did not. Period.
Secondly, sure he did. He invited Mary and John to meet him at the Aquarium to confront Vivian, without bothering to bring the police along - John had to do that. Then he taunted and belittled her after he she pulled out a gun, even though he knew she was perfectly content to send dozens of people to death just to protect her crimes from being revealed. He’s so in love with showing off his own cleverness that he’s willing to put people at risk just to do so. He could have just as easily tipped off his brother & Lestrade to arrest her - no muss, no fuss, no danger.
After identifying the guilty party, Sherlock then stood there and belittled her for no good reason other than to show off what a clever boy he was…which is generally a bad idea when dealing with someone with a gun. Sherlock pledged to protect Mary, and yet Mary died just because Sherlock felt like being a dick. I’d be pissed off at him too.
ETA: Ninja’d!
Ahhh. A Conspiracist. :rolleyes: I have…issues with them.
Moffatt didn’t write Sherlock slash fics, but Mark Gatiss did write at least one book of all-male erotica. Which makes sense, because he’s a writer and he’s gay.
The Conspiracists started off okay, but they’ve gone over the deep end into tin hat territory. They write long, exhaustive metas that “prove” the conclusion they want to see.
Ahhhh I could rant, and I have, elsewhere, but I won’t befoul this space with it. And don’t get me wrong - I ship it. I ship it hard. But it’s just not. going. to. happen.
Of course, the hole in our theory is that John didn’t actually see any of that - he didn’t arrive until after Mary was shot. But I’m sure he figured out that Sherlock probably wasn’t doing anything to improve the situation.
Damn, I really wasn’t paying much attention near the end was I? lol Ok yeah that makes sense now. Or you know, it could be that seeing Sherlock almost die again (forget about Mary) has made John realize his undying love for him and, as a man presenting as straight all his life, that’s just too much for him to deal with right now and he’s hiding himself away in shame of his true feelings. Come on. That’s SO what’s going on here guys.
Good theory too, except that John didn’t know that Sherlock was Vivian’s target - as far as he knows Vivian shot Mary on purpose.
A disappointing start to the season, I thought (I did recognize the Thatcher admirer as an actor from Downtown Abbey, though). Incredible to me that four super-assassins would each carry around with them on all their super-dangerous missions - and allow the others to do the same - data chips with full background information on each of them. WTF?
Another Holmes brother, mebbe? “Sherrinford” was Sherlock’s original name in Conan Doyle’s first writings about the great detective.
Yes, both Holmes and Watson comment in the original stories on Watson’s being a bit of a playa, with “an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents.” For more: 転職index
Ugh. Agreed.
Also agreed (and how did that flower come to be behind Watson’s ear, anyway?).
Well said. Vowing to protect them, then leaving them in their easily-found flat, and then inviting them to a confrontation with the villain was incredibly stupid. And that is just what Sherlock is not.
They showed that - he was playing with Rose and the flower, tucked it behind his ear while he was changing her diaper, and forgot it was there.
My favorite part of the episode was when Giles and John kept discussing all the demands of a new baby as Sherlock followed in confused indignation. “I think he needs winding.”
So, in the Easter egg at the very end, Mary says “Go to hell, Sherlock.” Surely she’s not cursing him, after begging for him to look after John? She’s telling him something without seeming to, I think.
I Googled up place names, and the first thing that comes up is “Hell, Norway”. An episode description of episode three on IMDB says that Sherlock and John are going to Europe. Thoughts?
It was very strongly implied, though. The phrasing of the texts implies that they have spent time together. Watson is clearly hiding the texts from Mary. And it appeared that he was about to confess something to Mary when Sherlock called. The guilty behavior points only to cheating.
Yes. The first part of the episode starts out very well—but then gets dragged down by the whole Mary the Super Spy-silliness; I’m glad it turned out to be a sendoff in the end. I never quite figured out the purpose of Mary—I mean, from a writing point of view, you’ve got Sherlock Holmes to work with, and you introduce a secret superagent in retirement who’s haunted by her past? Not only is that a tired cliche, it’s also something you can’t just push into the background again, so I suppose something like this was inevitable.
And he even recognizes his guilt—that’s why he instructed Mrs. Hudson that, whenever she notices him getting too cocky, to say the word ‘Norbury’; because his getting too cocky was exactly what caused Mary’s death.
That interaction with Mrs. Hudson would be a moving moment for the average protagonist. But did it fit in any way with what we’ve been shown of Sherlock’s personality/character…?
Well, it’s straight out of Arthur Conan Doyle’s adventure “The Yellow Face”:
“Watson,” said he, “if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”
Okay, then. I will agree that call-backs to the Canon are important in the show. And this bit was written, apparently, some sixteen or seventeen years after the first Holmes story appeared, so it would be ridiculous to assert that the moment of humility violates the character (which we should assume was well-established by then).
Thanks–ignorance fought.
Ah, thanks. I missed that.