Sherlock

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Episode 1 was so up and down for me. Never liked Mary, so the ending was good in one aspect, but annoying to get there. And the whiny Watson at the end was annoying as well. Will see what episode 2 holds, but I'm guessing more whine.

I don't want to speculate baselessly, but I will anyway.

The actors who play[ed] Mary and John dated for 15 years, then broke up during the filming of this run of episodes.

More to the plot, I see a lot of people are downplaying the first episode, but I wonder if they're missing the exploration of the Appointment in Samarra and Mary's death. The entire episode is about the nature of fate and the inevitability of death. Someone had to die in a seemingly random way thematically.