That is an interesting thought. I am not sure about Isaac being redeemed though. He was momentarily rescued, yes but we never hear about him again, or am I forgetting something?

Edit: Now that I think about it, Sherlock was also only momentarily rescued from death. He came back to life only to be send to certain death in Serbia.

So what would that mean for Mary?

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Done. :-p

Thank you. That's why you shouldn't post from your smartphone while pushing a pushing chair.

Yes but Sherlock is brought off the plane and Mycroft even acknowledges that he has had a period of Exile...but now he is needed back home...
Oh sorry, I just realised we might be talking about different things.
I was speaking specifically of HLV, because I am centering my thoughts around Mary...as she's the subject of discussion! Ha.
So I meant: Sherlock came back to life on the operating table and then was sent away on the plane to his possible death...but then was brought back.

... and in the next sentence Amanda says "Well... if you can fall into being an assassin..." 

I like what Amanda said about Mary in that panel. That she believes Mary truly loves John, and that everything isn't black or white. I couldn't agree more.

I have no idea. It will be very interesting to see if we learn more about Mary in S4. Either from her past or what path her character's development will take for the future.

Didn't Ben once said that when he asked Moffat for backstory about Sherlock, he didn't get any? Because Moffat doesn't believe in backstories? So I guess there isn't one for Mary either, unless it's important to the plot forward.

nakahara wrote:

And then this delightful answer:

http://cakepopsforeveryone.tumblr.com/post/131911974367/watsonshoneybee-she-just-fell-into-it-yeah-i

LOL
 

I am assuming the other actors either weren't available or not interested.

Yes, this, thank you, Susi. 
You put it better than me with my ill-tempered waffling.
What I wanted to say is, that her repeated representation for the show is not a hint that her part will develop f
or less John and Sherlock and personal conflicts between them.
Edit: I wanted to say that I hope it's not....

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Interesting thoughts in this meta: http://recentlyfolded.tumblr.com/post/132099600250/what-no-one-knew-about-mary

"What we don’t know and I suspect are unlikely to ever know is what the directors of TEH & TSOT may have been told about Mary. Were they constrained to the Mary of the first two eps as well, to the words that were on the pages of the single script they each were handed? And would they have handled her differently had they known what was to come in HLV?This is interesting to me because it goes further than pure curiosity and fascination with the production process. If the writers had to rely upon secrecy and an unheralded reveal, that’s pretty much admitting to their own weakness as writers and lack of trust in their actors and production crew. By hobbling them of information that should have been established for that “seen but not observed” reveal later, the writers stand as a sort of deus ex machina and the change in characterisation is what? Pure writerly exposition, breaking their narrative to throw in something they’ve not laid groundwork for. Lazy, then, is a term that comes to mind; writing themselves into a corner is another.It sounds as though they struggled a bit anyway with s3’s composition. We’ve heard that the empty house was to have been in TEH, then it was moved to TSOT, then it finally found a home in HLV, long after the play on words with TEH’s title was a bit stale. We know that it took all three of them to hammer out TSOT. They never did really hit their three pre-release “words,” did they? The visual production, the direction of s3, was by its very nature fragmented by each director admittedly trying to make their own distinct version, distinct from the others."

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SusiGo wrote:

I wondered the same. Benedict had two performances, so he was unavailable. As for the others, I have no idea. But I sometimes get the feeling that Amanda is very present compared to the part she is playing. 

Yep! Which is why, I don't think she's going anywhere.