A thought about Sherlolly, or: 'Why Molly deserves better' 

 (Sherlock meta by shortwatson and theleftpill)

shortwatson:

Ok, I respect Sherlolly shippers and in a way the two of them would really fit, but let me tell you why I don’t think it should happen in canon. Since episode one Molly is depicted as someone who is hopelessly in love with someone who isn’t really interested in her. She admires Sherlock and tries…

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theleftpill:

Correct you if you’re wrong? OK. (BTW I get that you’re focused on Molly’s character, but I’m still gonna correct you.)

Molly is not desperate. She has evolved from the lovestruck mouse you are characterizing her as into a strong independent woman. Sure she still harbors feelings for Sherlock, but in S3 she does it on her own terms. She calls him on his shit with the drugs and demands an apology; she parades around her fiancé, making out with him, having “a lot of sex”; she spends a day solving crimes with him AND THEN TURNS HIM DOWN when he invites her out for food (a HUGE romantic proof in the Johnlock metas). Do you think Blind Banker Molly would have done any of that?

So, accepting that Molly’s character has shown tremendous growth, “getting what she wished for” now takes on a different meaning. Sometimes you are drawn to a person regardless of the “sense” of it; Molly is still drawn to Sherlock. But now if they were to start some kind of relationship, it would be largely on her terms. How do I know this? Because they’re already there, throughout series 3. Keep in mind Sherlock has also undergone tremendous emotional growth, and no longer treats Molly as callously as he has in the past. Their relationship has already fundamentally changed, toward a more healthy connection on both sides. The romance you are envisioning is no longer possible.

I fail to see how a secondary character ending up with another secondary character would be “the very top of character development.” Stronger development would be a secondary character who is afraid of her own shadow growing into a powerful person in her own right, and a primary character finally allowing himself not only to show but also to actually feel the feelings he’s harbored for so long, and for the two of them to find each other and develop those directions even further.

“She would have evolved from the desperate girl she was to a women who knows what she wants and knows when to let go of the things that only bring you down.” She already has (see: Sherlock series 3.)

“So I basically just think that Molly deserves better than just being Sherlock’s final love interest (what she’d most probably become degraded to) She’s just too lovely and has too much potential as a character to end like that.”

What makes you think being a love interest means a character’s end?