So, once again, ranting time.
With the third season's airing date coming around, no big surprise.
I've often stated that I truly do not want to see Mary in the role of John's wife - so no wonder here that this post is more to find my inner peace, to be in the mood to suffer through the possible disappointment.
Yes, I ship Johnlock. But I also ship Sherlock/Irene, Lestrade/Sherlock, and face it, I also ship Mycroft/Sherlock. Well, not ship the last part but I can see where it is coming from. They do have a certain air around them, and those knowingly glares...
I do not hate Amanda or anything like that. It's more about Mary Morstan. I have a problem with her, with the general idea behind her:
Mary Morstan is kind, and sweet, and good-hearted, and a teacher, and that poor thing doesn't have any family left, and she understands Watson's need to work on cases and his bromance relationship with Sherlock.
It is just... dull. Tedious. Boring. And I am not even Sherlock, that's just me, even for my normal standards she is plan as hell. I feel like throwing up already. To me, relationships need to be about tension. I seriously can't see that there. It's a sickenly sweet relationship. The stress on sickenly. To me, it always seemed like Gatiss and Moffat knew what they were doing. Sherlock contains lots of quick wit, strong characters with enough quirks to make you like them, and damn, even the slash opposers must admit that BBC Sherlock owes its success to the explicitly implicit bromance sequences. It just added a quirk of modern life to Doyle's fictional world that Elementary, for instance, is lacking.
I really don't want to see that go. And to me, Mary is a threat. A threat to this tightrope balance between John and Sherlock. There's this spark that makes them both function, makes them interesting and different together. Makes you respect them. Makes them anything but plain. Marrying off John will make him... plain. So, you can name her Anna, Liza or Mary - the idea behind them, this utter dullness, it feels like the weight that will destroy their tightrope act, that will destroy the chemistry between the both of them. Then exactly that will happen which happens in all Sherlock/Irene stories. John is there but lost his place to Irene. In Sherlock, though, it'd be Sherlock who is stil there but lost his place. An unsettling thought. I don't mind a missing John in fanfictions - but I do mind Sherlock getting lost in this sappy, dull romance scheme. Even if Mary just gets random mentions... I don't WANT to think 'fuck off already' everytime she calls about which color the bridemaids should wear, or what flowers to buy, or whether John bought his suit yet, or when he's coming home, or whether he's staying out with Sherlock. It already gets on my nerves before it even started.
For now, I seriously hope Gatiss and Moffat are currently laughing their asses off because they gave us so many details and fucked with our minds but it will be different from what is expected by the masses.
We do know that there will be a Mary Morstan.
We do know that there will be a wedding.
I can imagine three possible solutions to avoid the "dullness" of the predictability:
1. Mary is Harry's new girlfriend and they actually get to... civil partnership.
2. Mary and John actually plan to marry (which I really can only squirt my eyes at) but Mary falls in love with Sherlock during the planning, and at the altar, she confesses her love to him, they blow off the wedding.
This solution solves all my troubles and it could be hilarious. So my absolute favorite XD
Idea a bit stolen by Rayonea's John Watson, Bachelor - in the end, a girl declines John's offer for sex because she fell in love with Sherlock. She fought all the time with him and noticed in the end that she could totally imagine doing that for the rest of her life with him. I loved that most about the entire fic XD stuck with me.
3. Mary is just some friend John made, preferably a stripper or prostitute to make it more ridiculous. John befriended her while he was grieving and they got along. Now there's a case and Sherlock needs them to pretend to marry so that he can solve the case. Scam wedding.
Yes, I admit it. Plot stolen - Rairakku1234's The Adventure of the Civil Partnership
So... I know that it is highly unlikely to be anything like the described scenarios.
But please, Gatiss, please, Moffat, make it interesting. Somehow. Enough to not lose fans like me who abhor predictable outcomes.
Yosh. I feel ready now to face season three. Just needed to get this out of my mind.
Because there are Mary's I liked. Actually, I did. Yes. In fanfiction. There are GOOD examples of how to deal with her to make her... into something I can respect. And yes, probably some other fans, too.
For example: The Way The Heavens Go - solojones. Actually there are two previous works but I liked that one best. Mary's boring but there's Irene to take focus from John, so it's not like you really notice how dull he became himself. Mary's not condensing, and she "gets" Sherlock to a degree only few do.
Or: Meeting Mary - Snommis. Okay, Mary is boring in here, too. But she is a woman I can respect, and she knows what she wants, and she is neither clingy nor expects unrealistically to become best friends forever with Sherlock. I respect her in this story, especially for her decision to, well, dump John. Seriously, he was behaving like an idiot. It's self-respecting to dump him. And it's kind, too. The king thing to do. Only this way he'll realize what to do. Because he's scaring both of them away with his behavior.
So maybe, just maybe, it will be a blast. And I'll not hate my past self for those stupid scenarios that "had no chance of ever coming true".
