probably someone somewhere has been talking about the exclusive mary content at the cinema but if so it hasn’t found its way to my dash so

here we go

my first thought was “why would they kick off this episode with a bunch of mary stuff when she is basically completely irrelevant except for the random voiceover at the end” but we’ll just file that away for later

pretty much right out of the gate they throw us a shot of mary with the deduction text floating all around her including “liar”

then amanda starts talking about how mary entered the show as a new partner for john after he loses sherlock

she goes on to say that john didn’t want to lose mary like he lost sherlock

by this point i’m already 👀

then we get the clip from the best man speech where sherlock is saying he loves john lololol

then the whole time amanda is talking about sherlock and john and mary like working together and stuff she’s standing in 221B with the horns perfectly framed behind her head

like not just one brief shot

she’s just standing there talking with horns on her head

she starts talking about her past and of course we get the clip where she shoots sherlock

then amanda talks some about TAB and for some reason she’s just talking about mary while there is a shot of emilia riccoletti on screen from the scene where she kills her husband 👀

then when amanda talks about mary’s death she says that mary got to go from shooting the hero to being a hero lol but when she’s talking about mary taking the bullet for sherlock, she describes it as mary doing something stupid ??

and then amanda says “it SEEMS” that mary is done and the way she said it was so suspicious akdkdkfkff

and then amanda says mary is one of the best characters she’s ever played which is interesting to me because aside from the bit where she shot sherlock she’s actually been pretty boring 👀

so anyway then i watched the episode and of course there is the voiceover at the end from mary’s posthumous dvd and not for the first time i wondered “what is the point of them having had mary do this voiceover, why her, she’s been dead for two eps and was irrelevant in this one so why did they need to bring her up again”

and then it clicked

that making the cinema exclusive content mary-centric and reminding everyone of mary right at the end of the episode would make sense… if there was going to be another episode and mary was going to be important to it and you wanted to make sure she’s fresh in everyone’s minds