[ SECRET POST #2262 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2262 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And also because she constantly has to be engaged in mental combat with Sherlock lest he steal her husband away.

There was that. Mind you, I found it slightly weird that Mary apparently doesn't mind, within limits. As in, Sherlock never gets her husband permanently, and Sherlock doesn't get to disrespect her in front of her husband, but he does get to have her husband's loyalty and friendship, and he does get to steal her husband every so often to go on adventures, provided he brings him back in more or less one piece this time.

I found it really, really bizarre that there's a canonical het romance interfering in a canonically intense male friendship, and the woman a) isn't written as a villain, b) doesn't attack Sherlock unless he attacks her first, and c) is completely confident in both her relationship with her husband AND Sherlock's (given the hospital scene in the first movie, and her reactions in the second).

Weird and bizarre. Also kind of refreshing, really.

[deadtree]

which is why Mary is an AMAZING character, of course. She is so confident in herself and in her relationship that she doesn't have to jealously guard Watson's affections-- and she's also clever enough to understand that if she DID try to lock him away from Holmes, it'd never work, and she'd lose him completely. She's a wise lady.

[elephantinegrace]

Reading this has bumped Mary Morstan (in nearly all incarnations) up to my second-favorite character. (Sorry, Mary, but Violet Hunter's BAMFness is too deeply rooted in childhood admiration for me to take her off her pedestal.)

[(Anonymous)]

Violet Hunter is a perfectly acceptable first favourite. Not everyone manages to gently swindle Holmes into helping her take down her evil employer, and follow it up by going on to run a school and be independantly successful in Victorian England, after all ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! I loved and adored that in the hospital scene in the first movie, she's reassuring Holmes that Watson (loves him) values his friendship, and would be willing to get hurt to save him. Her soon-to-be-husband is lying on a hospital bed, in some ways because of Holmes, and she's the one both recognising (through the disguise) and then comforting the guilt-striken Holmes. She's not jealous, she's not throwing blame around. She knows John well enough to know the depth of his values, and she's willing to say so to a man who's spent the movie thus far trying to separate her from the man she loves.

Mary rocks, is my point. Mary is stone-cold awesome, I don't even care.

[(Anonymous)]

She really is the best. She's probably my favorite thing in those movies.