Like okay totally believing that Sherlock and John have not realised they are threeway married but Mary is like "Oh yeah, we are all married" and is just going to trick the two dunces into realising it and thinking it was their idea all along. I fucking love her.
YES! There's this really excellent post I saw on tumblr (currently in my queue over there) that says of Mary "She gave these two men what death and resurrection could not. The space and the security to say I love you to each other. Talk about your conductor of light." There is a world of difference between their ability to be emotionally open with each other between last ep and this one, and what has changed?
Time, having the stuff they finally said in The Empty Hearse off their chests, and Mary Morstan as a part of their relationship. I think the last element is crucial.
Mary's death in the canon has meant that her death in the show has always been pretty likely (though I would be ECSTATIC) to be proven wrong about that). But you're right that the pregnancy moves up the timeline for when it's likely to happen. John having a baby would mess with the formula of the show too much for them to be likely to let things progress into domesticity, and killing off a woman is way more acceptable as a tv storyline than killing off a baby. Ugh.
I feel vaguely awful for the fact that I'm hoping for a miscarriage due to whatever shit hits the fan in the next ep, but I suspect the show isn't likely to have Sherlock be wrong about Mary's pregnancy, and the alternative stories from here are even worse. (Because god forbid Mary and John decide that they don't actually want a baby and terminate the pregnancy quietly and largely without regret.)
At least if it happens there will be lots of Nobody Dies fanfiction for consolation.
Excellent point. We'll always have fanfic! And I have faith that "The Sign of Three" will spawn fanfic as glorious as the ep was.
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YES! There's this really excellent post I saw on tumblr (currently in my queue over there) that says of Mary "She gave these two men what death and resurrection could not. The space and the security to say I love you to each other. Talk about your conductor of light." There is a world of difference between their ability to be emotionally open with each other between last ep and this one, and what has changed?
Time, having the stuff they finally said in The Empty Hearse off their chests, and Mary Morstan as a part of their relationship. I think the last element is crucial.
Mary's death in the canon has meant that her death in the show has always been pretty likely (though I would be ECSTATIC) to be proven wrong about that). But you're right that the pregnancy moves up the timeline for when it's likely to happen. John having a baby would mess with the formula of the show too much for them to be likely to let things progress into domesticity, and killing off a woman is way more acceptable as a tv storyline than killing off a baby. Ugh.
I feel vaguely awful for the fact that I'm hoping for a miscarriage due to whatever shit hits the fan in the next ep, but I suspect the show isn't likely to have Sherlock be wrong about Mary's pregnancy, and the alternative stories from here are even worse. (Because god forbid Mary and John decide that they don't actually want a baby and terminate the pregnancy quietly and largely without regret.)
At least if it happens there will be lots of Nobody Dies fanfiction for consolation.
Excellent point. We'll always have fanfic! And I have faith that "The Sign of Three" will spawn fanfic as glorious as the ep was.