If Mary is the love of his life, then I really wonder why we do not see more to prove this. 

Much more? But we do not see anything - the proposal is interrupted, at night in bed he dreams or thinks of Sherlock, we do not see the actual wedding ceremony, the whole wedding completely centres on him and Sherlock and Mary becomes a bystander at her own wedding.
In three episodes we do not get one single scene with John (one of the two major characters) and Mary in which they do not discuss Sherlock/are together with Sherlock/are standing in front of his grave. Not a single one in 270 minutes.
So please do not tell me to believe that she is the love of his life. John might think or hope she is (not sure about that though) but it is contradicted by the whole script and the way it has been filmed. This is called subtext. 

Last edited by SusiGo (October 4, 2014 12:10 pm)

I can't think of anything worse than Mary dieing some tragic heroine's death and Sherlock having to shoulder Johns grief and help him through......the storyline I dread.

Since the beginning Sherlocks done so much for John...curing the limp..dragging him into his work....letting him blog his private life..exposing his weakness' s...jumping from Barts...returning..to not a heros welcome...arranging his wedding teaching him to dance..writing the romantic tune....and then the whole reuniting him with the woman that shot him and shooting Magnusson. ?.

And all Johns done in return is be a bit of a whiny meanie!
Surely it's Johns turn to do things for Sherlock.

I realise Sherlocks mostly dark satire and none of the characters are perfect.....but really redeem Mary?......cant they just do something darky hilarious and drop a house on her or something......so they can giggle at the funeral......

If canon Watson was straight and canon Holmes could have been anything, then I think the series has actually stuck pretty close to the original in their depictions (except that the relationship with Irene definitely looks more like sexual attraction on TV). 

I agree that the name of the show being "Sherlock" is a giveaway - it is about Sherlock, ultimately.   It's not just John who always involves Sherlock even when he's not in the scene - the other characters do it too.   (For instance, the whole point of Lestrade and Anderson's Waters gang story was about Sherlock in the end).  Sherlock is the primary character (the show revolves around him).   And Sherlock and John is the primary relationship.   I don't think it's going to sidetrack from that. 

The wedding isn't included in canon, either, and I don't think that's really meant to be an indication of the lack of Watson's feelings for Mary, but more because of Sherlock being the focus of the stories.  Steven Moffat said that he wanted to see the best man's speech (which would centre around Sherlock), and that's the bit that got written in! 

It would be nice to see John doing things for Sherlock after S3.  I wonder if it would be possible to have a John-focused episode?  With lots of John and not so much Sherlock.   I don't know if I really want one (only because I don't want less Sherlock), but it could be really interesting.   The very first episode started off more like the books, more from John's point of view, and John tried to save Sherlock at the end.    

Even though Mary is prepared to do anything to protect John?

Who is Victor Trevor?

SusiGo wrote:

He is an old friend of Canon Sherlock Holmes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Gloria_Scott

The idea of the TEH skip code originates from this story. 

 
In gloria soctt  there is a ship name for then viclock

besleybean wrote:

Even though Mary is prepared to do anything to protect John?

It seems to me Mary is prepared to do anything to protect herself.

Maybe next time we'll get the full details of her story.

So the crux is if Sherlock and John are both really forgiving Mary...on the information they have.