shff replied to your post “The Key To Understanding S4 of Sherlock is to Accept Mary as She Is…”
If they wanted to go this route they should have executed it better, and not made her getting shot totally Hollywood vs Sherlock being realistically shot, in the same exact area. They spent an entire sequence with Sherlock explaining how being shot there worked in real life, then turned around and did the complete opposite when Mary was shot there. That's not good writing, I'm sorry. It's just not unless there is more to it. It's not excusable. And if they wanted to redeem her, the way they went
Hi @shff! Well, like I said to another commenter, Mary’s death wasn’t exactly the point of my post there. I was discussing female antiheroes, not the plausibility of how Mary died.
But Sherlock being shot wasn’t very realistic either. I remember when that episode aired there were lots of meta about the things they got wrong in that too, especially when it came to whether Sherlock would even survive to the hospital, much less restart his own heart.
That’s the thing about this show, though. In the story world of Sherlock, this kind of thing is meant to be plausible. I just posted more about this in that other reply, and I have to run now so I won’t take the time to link to it.
It’s fine to have the opinion that it’s bad writing. We all have stuff we like or don’t like. But her death does fit into the established rules of the Sherlock world and it doesn’t really make sense to call it out as unreal when so much of the show is equally unreal by real-world measures.