Do you mean, is Sherlock thinking about Mary's unborn child?

I doubt it.

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Welcome!

I think even those original critics of Molly now respect her more, and I would hazard a guess that most fans enjoy seeing her scenes with Sherlock.

Welcome to another 'murican.

I didn't scream when he came through the window and kissed Molly, but I sure did like it! Pretty sure Loo Brealey did, too...

I posted this elsewhere, but after the PBS airing of "The Empty Hearse", there was an hour of commentary on the Sherlock series. As part of that documentary, there were interviews both with Jonathan Aris (Anderson) and Moffat/Gatiss. In both interviews, the principals seemed clearly to indicate that Sherlock was not giving Anderson the correct details, and that we would be wise not to trust the explanation we see.

silverblaze wrote:

Possibly. But by that logic, Sherlock's coat has been screaming 'death' at us for three series. Though to be fair he dies a lot. 

 
That was simply hilarious.

Well, besleybean, I don't like to say, "I knew that!" after something has happened, but I'm with you--the setting with them standing right next to the fire...

By the way, I thought this was one of the most beautiful scenes of the episode. John offers Mary something unbelievable, being his unconditional love. (As a word of qualification, I will add that I think he's absolutely crazy for doing so, given Mary's obvious lack of "repentance" from her former ways, but hey, love is crazy like that...) Mary's tears indicate to me a heart completely overwhelmed by John's offer of love, and it all makes such delightful telly.

And I think the memory stick is gone. I don't like it, but I think that's what we are supposed to believe really happened--no looking back on Mary's past.

Be wrote:

There is no such thing as right and wrong in an absolute sense. There is always a shade of grey between black and white. Or pink if you fancy that.
Something is right today and might be wrong tomorrow under other circumstances. Something is right for you but wrong for me. Rules change in changing times. Everything is a matter of perspective, distance and how you percieve things, how you are brought up, what experiences you made in your life.
IMO, you need to make your choice in life and be respectful towards others and you still can get it wrong or change your mind and look at your decisions in retrospect. You need to forgive yourself and others. Judgements are easy about what is right and wrong. The canon stories are perfect examples of crimes or not-crimes and the background story Holmes deduced about how and why people did what they did.
His Last Vow gives us the chance to really look...

 
I am so very thankful that the world isn't really like this at all. Of course there are absolutes of morality. When people fail to believe that, they begin to justify all sorts of heinous and cruel acts.

When people begin these "live and let live" arguments, I fell they are failing to look at the natural end of such thinking. Do you have children, Be? Parents? Would it ever be okay for someone to apply your concept of a "shade of grey between black and white" in regards to harming them?

Just because we don't all agree on the standards doesn't mean that they don't exist. I would submit that some things are a matter of perspective, informed by our upbringing, environment, etc. (whether or not we eat meat, social protocols for usages of slang words, types and styles of clothing we wear, and so forth), but making allowances for those types of issues in no way abbrogates laws of morality.

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I watched the episodes on youtube, with annoying little blackouts every few moments (put there, I assume, to keep them from being taken down). I don't know whether it was legal for the person who put them up to do so, but, as I have already pre-ordered the DVDs, I felt fine in watching them.

From an enjoyment perspective, I can't recommend them, as I feel I missed much watching them that way (I always watch movies with captions, and missed them sorely). I can't wait to see them again when my DVDs come next month some time.