Okay, so I've found the comments I was referring to. It's the scene when Mary is sitting on the plane, people seem to think she doesn't look pregnant there. But she is sitting forward on the edge of the seat with her knees apart, so her tummy would be hanging down and her clothes draping/covering her bump.

Sort of like this

But obviously with a loose coat and scarf covering her bump. I don't know why this is bothering me so much, that people think she doesn't look pregnant in this one scene, like she "forgot her pillow". Every woman carries differently and sits differently when pregnant. I agree she looked more cumbersome in HLV when she as sitting at the Holmes' house, but she was sitting back in a deep soft chair and then trying to get up, I think it's harder to get up from that sort of position. Anyway, Amanda has had two kids, I'm sure she knows how to act pregnant, based on her own experiences!

Last edited by ukaunz (January 21, 2016 10:00 am)

Yeah I couldn't find a better photo, I was just trying to show that her clothing would hang down in front and obscure her bump. I know other people on the board are speaking from experience too...
I guess my main reason for getting bothered by this is that I don't think our brilliant, details-focussed show creators could be so careless that Amanda would forget to wear her fake belly and no one would notice! Possibly these comments are said jokingly... I don't know. I also realise that what miriel says is true, it would be easier for everyone to deal with Mary being killed off if there was no baby. It's a very conflicting situation these writers have put us in!

Well, I´m comparing this:

ukaunz wrote:

I've read some comments elsewhere that Mary doesn't look pregnant in TAB, especially in Sherlock's mp.

Here are some screen shots


I think she does look pregnant...

with this:



The bumb is making her almost immobile in HLV and it´s huge, while in TAB taking place later, especially in these two scenes I´m pointing at above, is almost non-existent and Mary moves with relative ease... to me it looks like she is selectively pregnant in one moment, not pregnant at all in the next....

I think it is difficult to decide. They would not be so careless to forget the belly although I am one of those who think that when she is sitting on the plane she does not look very pregnant. 

For me, however, the most interesting question is why Victorian Mary is not pregnant. A simple explanation of course might be that her husband has abandoned her for an unsavoury companion so there was not chance for her of getting pregnant. 
Joking apart, one might also argue that this is Sherlock's mind in which he shapes the characters after his liking. So we might assume that for whatever reason he prefers a non-pregnant Mary to a pregnant one. 

My (boring) explanation is just that Moftiss wanted it that way for the story. They could hardly have a pregnant woman running around spying and solving mysteries in 1895.

Perhaps... but my mind just rebels at the thought. Fakes deaths, and a fake pregnancy... C'mon! But if that is what Moftiss end up doing, I'm sure they'll do it well.

Another thought: Mary wears black during TAB, as if she´s in mourning.... could this be a mourning for a child she miscarried as her Victorian-self?

Swanpride wrote:

In short, if simply would have made the whole episode more complicated.And I think that Mary acts a little bit more agile because her actress is not supposed to draw too much attention to the pregnancy. It would only draw away the focus from Sherlock.

Oh, I agree completely. Pregnant Mary in Victorian time would only make everything more complicated and draw attention to the issue which doesn't need to be bring forward too much. So I would just say it was just Moftiss's common sense to leave this aspect alone in that line of the story.
 

I agree, Little Weed. The needs of the film makers and the MP perspective should not be confused here. It's Sherlock's story he's telling here about Mary.

(Btw, in Victorian times most pregnant women in Britain were forced to work much harder than nowadays. Even if we are talking about a middle class situation here, we should not forget that it was a minority who could take good care of themselves during a pregnancy in those days.)