Unpopular opinion: I don’t actually think Tom was all that bad

 (Sherlock meta by iamazonian)

Yes he was a bit of the wonky type, and he was awkward and stuff, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that! And if you think about it, his theory was actually kind of sound. I mean, a dagger made of the same thing it aims to pierce, so the murder weapon camouflages itself in the body it murdered? I actually like it!

And he was just trying to make conversation with Molly and she cut him off with a fork stab, which was probably the physical form of the emotional pain caused by Sherlock cutting Molly off in previous seasons whenever she made conversation. And he was all awkward and shy and I actually felt a bit for him because… He might actually really have loved Molly, and was then being continually slapped in the face by the presence of someone /better/ (in Molly’s eyes).

Where have we seen this before? Didn’t we all feel so INCREDIBLY bad for Molly in A Scandal in Belgravia? We got so annoyed at the writers doing everything they could to show how Molly was “eclipsed” by the amazing flawless beautiful Woman. The lipstick, the gift, the body, the phone, everything! And then, the same thing happened to Tom. [...He] turned out to be a normal bloke who fell in love with Molly Hooper and got his heart shredded slowly.

What I’m saying is, Tom was innocent. Tom was almost like Molly in the way that Molly was to Sherlock in the [previous] two seasons. Molly actually seemed a bit crueler considering she was committing herself to the man whilst being so obviously in love with another. –