The Point Of The Christmas In The Morgue Scene 

(Sherlock meta by mae-jones)

So what was the point of this scene? There was no character development or advancement for Sherlock. He had already had the big, “aha!” moment earlier in the episode when he realized he hurt Molly. Well, this wasn’t for Sherlock’s development, it was for Molly’s. The writers were meticulous with this. It was a bit of foreshadowing of her speach to Sherlock in the lab when she said she wasn’t important.

It gets me pondering. I mean, what if Sherlolly is a part of the end game? I know this sounds like wishful thinking but these two are mirrors of eachother in too many ways to count. There are so many parallels to their growth and development and no other characters, not even John, have changed as much as these two have from the beginning of the show (John has been kind of static since the first episode, has he not?). In fact, Sherlock has become softer while Molly has grown more fearsome. These two are practically colliding in orbit and all of it is deliberately written into the show.

Even without Sherlolly, I desperately want the writers to be frickin’ brave and keep writing her as she is. She’s interesting. She’s good enough. She doesn’t need to be a double agent, or killed off, or become a casualty of any other stupid, hackneyed, ‘gotcha’ trope.