The spectacular thing about endgame sherlolly is that BECAUSE there was no expectation on the part of the shippers that TPTB would pair off an OC with their titular character and BECAUSE Mofftis never expressed any desire to explore a romantic story with Sherlock besides one-off Adlock, it created this fascinating space where it happened naturally, in the background, in a real understated manner, precisely because no one intended or expected it and didn't mean to go further than develop and explore their dynamic. As a result all the sherlolly moments are somehow both quiet and off-handed yet incredibly revealing. Like yeah, of course Molly matters and of course Sherlock would involve her in his schemes and of course he would trust her with his life and of course she'd be the one saving him in his mind palace and of course he'd concoct an entire drug-fueled scenario revolving around his guilt due to his treatment of her. It's Molly.
And then comes the finale and it's not quiet, it's bombastic and involves Molly with no real narrative need, in an even less necessarily melodramatic scenario, and it's treated super seriously for a scene mining its tragedy from how Sherlock doesn't love Molly, something so done it's been established and repeated numerous times since the pilot.
Unless he does. And if he does, then the whole unintentional love story that's been quietly, ACCIDENTALLY happening in the background unpeels and reveals itself. I mean, of course it does. It's Molly.
Mofftis can't ever make that fifth season, I could never live it down.
