"Mary's been dead for 100 years, so it's hard to surprise people in those circumstances," Moffat said, according to Digital Spy. 'Sherlock' gets an Honest Trailer and it's so brutally perfectĭramatic irony aside, it seems questionable that a new mother would take a bullet for a man she grudgingly admired but clearly also resented, no matter how many previous sins she felt the need to atone for.įrom a storytelling standpoint, there's no better catalyst for shattering Sherlock and John's relationship, but it still felt like the writers were taking the easy way out by dispatching Mary so neatly.Īt a press screening, Moffat admitted that the decision to kill Mary off so early (she was only introduced at the beginning of Season 3, lest we forget) was a way to keep Holmes fans on their toes. Indeed, Mary's demise was such an afterthought in his novels, Doyle never even gave a cause for it - a far less poetic end than Mary's decision to sacrifice herself by jumping in front of a bullet to save Sherlock's life, having previously tried to shoot him herself.
This was true of Mary Watson (née Morstan) in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, and after the devastating Season 4 premiere, it's also true of Sherlock - although creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss inarguably gave the character more depth and chutzpah than Doyle ever did before deciding to kill her off. Which means that any character who comes along to distract one of our heroes from their noble mission of crime-fighting and witty-bantering is inevitably doomed to become a mere footnote in their sweeping saga (no matter how sharp and self-sufficient they may be).
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Entertainment > TV Shows This recap contains spoilers for Sherlock Season 4, episode 1, titled "The Six Thatchers."Īny true fan of Sherlock Holmes - in any of his myriad incarnations - knows that there's no competing with the bromance between Holmes and Watson it's right up there with Kirk and Spock in the pop culture pantheon of epic friendships.
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