Willow wrote:

mrshouse wrote:

tonnaree wrote:

They would NEVER give up the narrative possiblities they'd lose if she was dead when Series 4 started.

Good point, tonnaree.
But the most intruiging question for mofftiss would be then: is it more interessting to be a tragic figure or a smooth, doting (boring?) one...?

Well, they have also ruled out having a lethal killer nurse following S&J around shooting anyone who might conceivably be a threat to our heroes, and that makes perfect sense; it would destroy the show. How they can prevent that happening is an interesting question; Mary is not good at taking advice, and will be only too aware that she has forfeited any place in investigations because she has sat in the clients chair.

I suspect also that John's reference to whether 'we' want you is not going to sit well with Mary long term. It is one thing to be nice to a rival that is getting on a plane and unlikely to ever return, and a very different thing to have someone constantly around the place reminding people by his very presence that she nearly killed him.

And, of course, the people who want her dead still exist; they don't miraculously disappear because CAM is dead. She is still vulnerable to discovery, and the only thing which could prevent that is going into something like a Witness Protection Scheme. But I think we are going to learn a lot more about who Mary really is before they kill her off
 

It struck me that Mary dying in the process of some kind of confrontation with CAM, or trick to bring him down, would have been the tidiest solution...TOO tidy for Moffit and Gattis. Agatha Christie often works like that: someone who has killed in the past dies saving someone or conforting the Murderer of the Week. 

Or Mary could have gone on the mission they were going to send Sherlock on...but then there would be a lot of "oh yeah, sacrifice the woman so the men can have a relationship" flak. However, Mary conveniently died in canon when Doyle wanted to reunite Holmes and Watson.

Erm, guys, anyone read Mark Gatiss tweed about the Baby?? Eeek...
Is this an announcement?😞

He tweeted something about delayed works on s4 due to the baby, might habe been an Aprils joke though. But on twitter I saw a gif of mark  at an q&a in Brazil, my mobile unfortunately didn't deliver it fully but it was about a dog for John Watson and he answered they would have a" bloody baby" on the show.

Argh, I'm bad at that, but check tumble hash tag mark gatiss, should come across there.

1st of april...
It's an aprils fool and about the q&a I saw the video, it was a joke...

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Mrs. Hudson could be a nanny for the baby ^^

Oldies but goldies ;)

I'm not glad. Don't like Mary and if they stay I hope with as little screen time as possible, don't want three and a half leads. Too many smart people in one room.
Like Amanda though, no doubt.

On this forum, dear😜...

Hyper-realistic? As in over-realistic?
Quite the contrary if you ask me. Nothing is more improbable or impossible than everything that happens in series 3.
When the Watson-baby appears in Series 4 I am ready to believe in pink unicorns living on the back side of the moon. Just as Sherlock pirouetting in the middle of the wedding or the elephant in 221 B or Mary shooting a coin in a dark room or surgery or a six month old skeleton or a blue air bag or Anderson being a fan of Sherlock's or Moriarty and Sherlock kissing on the roof or Sherlock revealing himself to John in public or John telling Sherlock that the game is over or Sherlock being a murderer or John being Mr. Psychopath.