I really liked this episode, and I love Mary. I hope she won't die - I am not familiar with Conan Doyle so I don't know and I don't want to know what happens in canon, but anyway, I love Mary.
She's smart and a killer and she loves John so much, so much that she even shoots his (and her) friend just so John won't find out that she's someone else than she claimed.
I also can see how this is the ONLY person who would be able to compete with Sherlock over John, because she doesn't have to. Sherlock said it so well: John CHOSE that woman. Even though he didn't know it then, she thrills him. Which is why she doesn't need to feel insecure when John has fun with his best friend - because in the end, he will come back to her, since he might get his thrills with Sherlock, hunting crime, but he won't find everything with that man.
And I love that she's not in the least insecure about Sherlock and John, she's only scared to lose John over something in her past.
I really like the idea of someone so thrilled by danger like Watson would find - even without looking - a very dangerous wife.
What I also loved was John's speech in the Cottage at Christmas to her. Basically that he loves her, and if given a choice of a life with her or one without her, he will take the one that has her in it. And then he whispered in her ear that he's so very pissed and it will sometimes show and he'll be sorry but he's really very pissed - and she just nods, because she, too, wants a life with John and not one without him. It's all she'd wanted in the first place.
It must have been an interesting filmset... wife of one actor, parents of the other... it's like a real Christmas get-together :-D
Magnussen was soooo creepy! and tall - damn, what long legs!
you know, as I'm a sitting here and thinking about it... what if the failsafe of Magnussen actually was Moriarty? Is it a coincidence that he turned up right after Magnussen's death?
Oh, and I adored Mycroft's "Oh Sherlock, what have you done!" when he saw him shoot Magnussen.
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Date: 2014-02-20 11:29 pm (UTC)She's smart and a killer and she loves John so much, so much that she even shoots his (and her) friend just so John won't find out that she's someone else than she claimed.
I also can see how this is the ONLY person who would be able to compete with Sherlock over John, because she doesn't have to.
Sherlock said it so well: John CHOSE that woman. Even though he didn't know it then, she thrills him. Which is why she doesn't need to feel insecure when John has fun with his best friend - because in the end, he will come back to her, since he might get his thrills with Sherlock, hunting crime, but he won't find everything with that man.
And I love that she's not in the least insecure about Sherlock and John, she's only scared to lose John over something in her past.
I really like the idea of someone so thrilled by danger like Watson would find - even without looking - a very dangerous wife.
What I also loved was John's speech in the Cottage at Christmas to her. Basically that he loves her, and if given a choice of a life with her or one without her, he will take the one that has her in it. And then he whispered in her ear that he's so very pissed and it will sometimes show and he'll be sorry but he's really very pissed - and she just nods, because she, too, wants a life with John and not one without him. It's all she'd wanted in the first place.
It must have been an interesting filmset... wife of one actor, parents of the other... it's like a real Christmas get-together :-D
Magnussen was soooo creepy! and tall - damn, what long legs!
you know, as I'm a sitting here and thinking about it... what if the failsafe of Magnussen actually was Moriarty? Is it a coincidence that he turned up right after Magnussen's death?
Oh, and I adored Mycroft's "Oh Sherlock, what have you done!" when he saw him shoot Magnussen.