Wholocked wrote:

Pressure Points in Magnussen's world means "information this person doesn't want to get out, or people I can threaten to keep this person in line". Sherlock is not a pressure point for John. If Magnussen threatened Sherlock, John would believe 100% that Sherlock was well capable of taking care of himself.

I have to disagree with this, at first I tried to think this was the reason because Sherlock not being one of John's pressure points is pretty shocking to me but it just kept coming back to pressure points representing a weakness only; someone or something to you show weakness TOWARDS.

How else is Mrs. Hudson's pressure point only marijuana?! And it alone. Like... what? Certainly not something terribly blackmailing, does she not care about anyone if they were placed in danger?

Similarly, Sherlock has drugs on his file for a weakness, and considering that's no big secret (to him at any rate) it's not worth blackmailing him over, in fact everything on Sherlock's list is showcasing things he has showed a weakness to/for, like a dog that's already dead... not really blackmail material, including the crimes he had a hard time solving -- he was "weak" against solving them quickly and thus they showcase a weakness in his problemsolving. There's nothing to blackmail there or anything to "protect" against the cases. They were published on a blog and pretty well known.

The way John ended up on his list (honestly wasn't it obvious before?) was when Sherlock saved him from burning to death, right? It showed John is someone he is weak towards when John's placed in mortal danger. Why anyone would need an elborate set up like that to find out something so obvious is beyond me.

I would think if Sherlock had been in a similar situation John would not be sitting back and expecting Sherlock has a master plan while inside a bonfire, he'd instead be trying to help him... yet, Sherlock did not make his list.

It's pretty bizarre, and I don't think there's a

The show entirely lost credibility for me with Mary shooting Sherlock. I have looked the other way on a lot of strange plot holes, some even pretty major, but this one takes the cake.

Someone does not shoot a "friend" when they are offering to help them. She should be dead to Sherlock after this; arrested too. Sherlock should want to protect John from someone so cold blooded. She doesn't love John, you do not (almost) kill your husbands best friend to save yourself a little trouble in being honest. You do not build a real relationship on deception.

How does everyone assume that she just meant to harm him? He DIED. His heart stopped beating, and a lot of the episode was taken up with him fighting for his life (which, later on, seems meaningless as everyone is acting like it was no big deal). She shot him in the chest. If she meant harm, there are plenty of other locations to shoot. She could not have calculated that such a shot would almost but not quite kill him. I don't care that she called an ambulance... there is no telling when it would've arrived (who cares about average arrival time -- you're going to risk someone's life on that assumption?!). A minute later would've been a minute too late.

Later they're all acting like it was just a flesh wound, to move on because all is forgiven; she's sorry? Who cares. Actions are what matter, not words. Why are we forgiving her again? Because Sherlock says so? Not going to fly. I need reasons. Because she's "good" for John? She seems like the most psychotic person in the show. How on earth is this being overlooked?

John forgiving Mary was absurd, I do not know a single person that would forgive their spouse for almost murdering their best friend, and for such a petty reason. He didn't even read her file. He's willfully ignorant and forgiving... but to an extreme that just does not exist in reality. It cheapens his relationship to Sherlock that he could forgive her and start up a relationship again like it was just a li