Molly Hooper

[Arcadia]

Everyone's makeup was a disaster this season, especially in eps 1 & 3. That's the biggest mystery of the whole season, to me. Kabuki makeup would have stood out less..... :(

[bedelia1984]

It actually started in the promotional pictures. Everyone suddenly looked a bit ghoulish, as if all their features were over-contoured.

[J.P.]

Re Molly's appearance:

I liked her blouse she wore in the ambulance. It had ships all over it. :P

 

As for the make-up: now I started to see it in the earlier seasons too!

[bedelia1984]

That was this one J.P. it actually was very pretty. I don't think she really had any fashion disasters this year. But then maybe we saw too little of her, for her to have one.

 

The make-up in Scandal was OTT, J.P., but apart from that I thought she had okay makeup? I didn't like that halo effect braided hair in TSOT at the lab with Greg. I thought there was something vaguely unhinged about it. 

[J.P.]

I meant the make-up on Sherlock - mostly. Now I see a yellowface everywhere.

[Arcadia]

It actually started in the promotional pictures. Everyone suddenly looked a bit ghoulish, as if all their features were over-contoured.

 

Is that what it is? Not just the skin tones, then. Aha.....

 

That was this one J.P.

 

That is an amazing webpage. Wonk to the max!!! My hat's off to them. :p

[bedelia1984]

 

Just for contrast- look how normal and alive everybody looked in the s3 cast pictures!

 

 

John looks about ten years older here, and the skin tone is almost gray. 

I suppose they graded these pictures and that's why they look extra bad.

I could post more, for example Mary's season 4 picture also made me worry for her continued health.

 

I suppose they wanted to suit the 'dark' mood of the season, but I think it's a shame, they have such a pretty cast, and they ought to have worked a bit more to not emphasise the fact much time had passed since the last filming, instead of this over-done make-up.

 

[Arcadia]

Agreed. It still mystifies me, too.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Did very quick and very inadequate skimming for the thread, so feel free to whack me if I said something that had been said (oh I didn't say I won't return the whack though).

 

Still wonder why Molly looks upset before the call, she had dark ring around her eyes and looked like she was crying? I saw the guess about dead cat, and while I am wondering where her cat was, would you make lemonade when you are sad? It seems like punishing herself.

 

Another, the kitchen.

Of all kind of kitchens I would put Molly Hopper in, this is not one. No.

It really doesn't look like Molly's.

This kitchen seems like the style owned by someone practical, sleek and loves cooking. It even has island style counter. It. looks like Hannibal's kind of kitchen.

 

I imagine Molly's kitchen would be full of knick knacks, colorful tones and decorative stuff. Fabric with characters, cute salt and pepper shakers, bright utensil, cute mugs etc.

And I imagine she doesn't cook a lot. She is quite workaholic, probably has long hour work. As someone who is living by myself as well, it's quite un-economical to cook fancy meal for yourself and stocking fresh stuff can be challenging, as you have to adjust the scale of things you buy with the rate of your ability to finish it, together with storage strategy of how to make fresh food last longer.

And there, she has plethora of eggs on the counter, definitely not the best way to store it. Can't imagine she finishes them on her own if she store it that way. I love to add eggs on my food, and I bake sometimes. Unless you are feeding a family, have a lot of time for cooking, have a lot of guests, or chicken farm, you don't put that many eggs on the counter.

 

And I always imagine Molly as regular coffee person, instead of fancy coffee machine with what seems like, very high turnover for the capsules.

 

I'm not sure if making lemonade uses hot water (I use regular or cold water), her boiling kettle was on (although off again in another scene), she doesn't seem to have a need for hot water. Or is it the remedy for cold? And the sweater, was she sick?

 

And I imagine she doesn't have plants. Of if she has, it would be easy to maintain practical plants. (I relate this to her long-hour work and her cat) Somehow I don't think she is the gardening type, and if she actually like plants, it takes a very homy, different type of person, normally someone who spends a lot of their time at home to have fresh cut flower.

 

The thing about Sherlock is, we pay attention too much, unnecessarily because we only have limited episodes. XD

[bedelia1984]

I'm not sure if making lemonade uses hot water (I use regular or cold water), her boiling kettle was on (although off again in another scene), she doesn't seem to have a need for hot water. Or is it the remedy for cold? And the sweater, was she sick?

 

 

I thought she was making hot tea with lemon? But agree with your suggestion that it could be for a cold, which might fit with how she seemed in the scene too.

 

I also was surprised at her kitchen, but then I was glad they gave her a nice kitchen, when they gave Molly precious little screen time! It also fit with the idea that Maybe Molly is a lot more together in her life when she's not a bit thrown by Sherlock's presence. For some reason, this flat looked almost like a new one she had just moved into to me?

[J.P.]

The kitchen looked too big for her. I would expect it more cluttered and practical instead of… posh-ish.

As for cats, they are not part of the show, but an idea of the person who wrote her blog. I hated that blog, it might have fit her character from the first series, but surely not the later ones. Even if she had a cat, in my head canon she wouldn't be fluffy cat lady.

 

And yes, she looked like in a bad place. I'd say there was a deleted scene which would explain it, or maybe the last minute change in the coffin scene…

[T.o.b.y]

I think Molly was making herself tea with lemon in it. That's what it looked like to me.

 

I wasn't surprised to see her in a neat, modern kitchen - she probably makes good money but is rarely home to enjoy it. I think of her as the kind of person who actually uses her kitchen once a week at most and mostly eats at work.

[bedelia1984]

An article about British shows that could do decent spin-offs from their supporting cast, mentioning Molly.:

 

I'll quote the whole bit as it's not long:

 

With mega-hit Sherlock either wrapped up or on prolonged hiatus, now might be the perfect time to pitch a series centred on beloved medic Molly Hooper, a more empathetic crimefighter. Just do it the US way: quickly, before the body’s cold.

 

Nice idea if you can get over the cavalier way they dismiss chances of the show coming back as it is...

 

 

[Arcadia]

Good heavens, I never noticed any of those details about the kitchen. I do remember thinking it looked new, though. And I always assumed she was making tea with lemon, too.

 

A show about pathologist Dr. Hooper? Any chance Sherlock could be an occasional guest star?

[gerry]

Mycroft actually said in the scene that Molly was making tea when Sherlock asked "what's she doing?" When she didn't answer the phone initially.

[J.P.]

Oh, I remember my first impression about seeing her in that kitchen was: it looks like it isn't her kitchen - it's like she's a guest there making herself a tea.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Maybe she just recently moved to that flat, and hasn't taken the time to personalize it yet.

[bedelia1984]

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A show about pathologist Dr. Hooper? Any chance Sherlock could be an occasional guest star?

 

From your keyboard to the ears of Moftiss!

 

I feel like if Molly had a spin off it would be more of a comedy-drama than Sherlock, especially if there was crime solving. Obviously she's very good at her job, but I also find some of her lab snippets quite funny, like when we see her trying to snap those gloves on.  It would be such a smart way to get around the busy schedules of the Sherlock stars. It's a shame spin off web-series and the like don't seem to be catching on in the UK the way they have in the US (so far, anyway).

[Arcadia]

Mycroft actually said in the scene that Molly was making tea when Sherlock asked "what's she doing?" When she didn't answer the phone initially.

Aha. Well, that explains where I got that idea from!

[gerry]

I'm curious if those that like the Molly character think her friendship with Sherlock was reciprocal? I mean Sherlock has at various times throughout the seasons shown concern or through actions conveyed his appreciation/affection for Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft and John. Even for Irene he wrote a song, keeps her phone and he saved her life. Has he done shown something similar for Molly besides thanking her for helping with his fake suicide plot?

[Arcadia]

Asked her to solve crimes with him? I think Sherlock would think that's about the highest compliment he could pay someone. :D

 

I don't have any doubt that he's fond of her, and I think he was sincere when he said he trusts her. And as far as I can remember, she's the only character he's kissed. No wait, he kissed Mary and Mrs. Hudson too, didn't he? Oh cripes, he even kissed Janine. Well, then, he likes to kiss the girls! How did I not realize this before? Eurus had better watch out, she might be next.

[Amber§]

So curios, neither I have noticed that before!

Sherlock's a heartbreaker :P

I think that maybe it's a way to relate to the opposite sex of really self-confident people who put themselves above the others. Like Sherlock. I've seen a lot of boys acting like this with girls and girls with boys in the same way.

[J.P.]

Sherlock kissed Molly TWICE!

[Arcadia]

Yeah, right, and he never kissed mad scary Irene at all! Molly wins!!!!!!

[J.P.]

Of course we don't know about Janine. He kind of kissed her on screen, but what was going on in that bathtub?