What about Sherlock's feelings for Molly?

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

[sittything]

Where's the proof you called it?  ;)

[T.o.b.y]

What on earth are you going on about? :lol: You'll have to be a bit more specific than that for stupid little me.

[sittything]

[Ruthyone]

How about this little cartoon?

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Where's the proof you called it?   ;)

What on earth are you going on about? :lol: You'll have to be a bit more specific than that for stupid little me.

 

I just knew I'd eventually convert one of you guys into a crazed shipper! I knew it! I KNEW IT! I didn't put "Warning: May convert you into insane shipper/person" on my profile for nothing!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

Here's some interesting blog posts on what Molly's job title actually is:

 

http://wellingtongoose.tumblr.com/post/68816603719/why-miss-molly-hooper-would-be-a-surgeon

 

http://wellingtongoose.tumblr.com/post/70125757369/molly-is-a-doctor-and-there-is-finally-proof

 

Wow, thank you, sitty!  I've read many of wellingtongoose's blog posts on Live Journal, but that collection does not include the second one you linked to.  Apparently Molly really is a doctor -- I say "apparently" because I see no information as to where wellingtongoose got that picture of Molly's badge.  Does anyone have any info on that?

 

 

I'm watching TBB now and when Molly is showing Sherlock & Dimmock the bodies, her badge is shown.  It looks very much like what Wellingtongoose has pictured although at a different angle and obviously not as close up.

[Arcadia]

 

Where's the proof you called it?   ;)

What on earth are you going on about? :lol: You'll have to be a bit more specific than that for stupid little me.

 

I just knew I'd eventually convert one of you guys into a crazed shipper! I knew it! I KNEW IT! I didn't put "Warning: May convert you into insane shipper/person" on my profile for nothing!

 

Uh oh, sittything, you've been found out.....

[T.o.b.y]

 

I'm watching TBB now and when Molly is showing Sherlock & Dimmock the bodies, her badge is shown.  It looks very much like what Wellingtongoose has pictured although at a different angle and obviously not as close up.

 

Indeed! Look here:

 

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm watching TBB now and when Molly is showing Sherlock & Dimmock the bodies, her badge is shown.  It looks very much like what Wellingtongoose has pictured although at a different angle and obviously not as close up.

 

Indeed! Look here:

 

 

 

Here's a copy of wellingtongoose's photo for comparison with the above:

 

 

Just offhand, I don't see any obvious differences, but the screencap is too blurry to be certain about the specific words on the badge.  I've seen several homemade Molly badges online that look perfectly credible, so I can't just assume that wellingtongoose's closeup is the real thing without either a] knowing its source, or b] getting a legible blowup of a screencap.

 

[sfmpco]

Is she wearing the badge in the pilot? Since I don't have the pilot, I have no way of knowing.  As for her being a "specialist registrar" - here's how Wikipedia describes it, and that term isn't exactly right as it should say "specialty registrar" and that is quite a highly honored position to have.  Doesn't seem to apply to the morgue or post mortems, however, so I am not 100% convinced that is her actual job title.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_registrar

 

However, if that title is specific to her, then Sherlock needs to straighten up around her and show her due respect.

[T.o.b.y]

Sherlock didn't show much respect for Buckingham Palace, what makes us think he'd be influenced by someone's job title?

 

That is one of the many things I love about Sherlock, his respect seems to be given (or not given) entirely on the basis of competence. When we first see him with Molly, I think for him she comes across as a love-struck little meekly mousy thing and he couldn't care less about what it says on her badge or how much Bart's pays her. Then, as the show goes on and he gets to know her better, he seems to realize that she has a few remarkable personality traits and considerable professional knowledge, and by now I think he probably respects her as much as he ever will another human being.

[sfmpco]

Well, I think by the time we get to the mind palace sequence in HLV that, as Baker Street Babes defined her - she has come to represent all medical knowledge to him, so he esteems her medical knowledge and skills more than he verbalizes.

[T.o.b.y]

I just watched Mark Gatiss say the nicest thing about Molly I've ever heard: "Molly's love for Sherlock isn't the only thing we remember her for". Damn right! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr G., for pointing out that a female character actually has other purposes besides "love interest".

[Shadow Dweller]

I would love to see Molly in other scenes without Sherlock nearby, how would she fare if target of crush is not in the area. #curious  ^_^

[sittything]

lol.  I dunno that I'd call myself a crazed shipper.  A reluctant shipper, yes.   Just b/c I ship it doesn't even mean I think it will come true, and I'm not sure if I even want it to come true.  Conflicted, party of 1.

 

I am really looking forward to see what they do with Molly in season 4, given that they've said she'll have an increased role.  I do hope that whatever they do with her it's not entirely Sherlock-centric.  Molly deserves that much.

[Boton]

What I love most about the ID that Wellingtongoose shows (and that seems to be on the screencap of the episode) is that the props department went out of their way to grab Loo Brealey and take an unflattering ID picture.  "No, no, Loo, no one looks that good in their work ID in real life....try to look more put upon....think driver's license.....there you go!"

[sfmpco]

If Molly is as a full-fledged doctor in some specialty, it would be nice to have her interacting with other hospital staff once in a while w/o the boys so that we can get a better sense of who she is and her command of her work.  Also, since Barts is a teaching hospital, how involved is she with any of the young med students?

[sittything]

 

That is one of the many things I love about Sherlock, his respect seems to be given (or not given) entirely on the basis of competence. When we first see him with Molly, I think for him she comes across as a love-struck little meekly mousy thing and he couldn't care less about what it says on her badge or how much Bart's pays her. Then, as the show goes on and he gets to know her better, he seems to realize that she has a few remarkable personality traits and considerable professional knowledge, and by now I think he probably respects her as much as he ever will another human being.

 

I've always assumed that Sherlock holds her personality (meek, mousy) in those early episodes apart from what he thinks of her professional capability.  He trusts her enough even in episode 1 to contact him with the results of the "test."   "I need to know what bruises form in the next twenty minutes. A man's alibi depends on it. Text me."   I guess I've always though that Sherlock valued her and trusted her professionally, it's just in later episodes he begins to appreciate her more personally as a friend and as someone he can trust personally.

[T.o.b.y]

What I love most about the ID that Wellingtongoose shows (and that seems to be on the screencap of the episode) is that the props department went out of their way to grab Loo Brealey and take an unflattering ID picture.  "No, no, Loo, no one looks that good in their work ID in real life....try to look more put upon....think driver's license.....there you go!"

 

Yes, isn't that great? Really, the attention to detail on this show is amazing.

 

[sfmpco]

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That would be awesome. Can we also have him slightly confused about it for a brief moment before that just because?

[sfmpco]

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Yes it would be morbid.  Their dinner discussions at a restaurant would be epic.  Put them in a semi-private back table so as not to disturb other guests quite so much.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yes it would be morbid.  Their dinner discussions at a restaurant would be epic.  Put them in a semi-private back table so as not to disturb other guests quite so much.

 

My mother tried to serve us brains for breakfast a couple of times (she "disguised" them by mixing them with scrambled eggs).  I survived.  So I suspect those other guests would survive as well -- though they might not return to that restaurant!