"It's not the chase that I love it's me following you."

[nausicaa83]

I've been following a liveblog of the Sherlock Masterclass at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival for the past hour, as they said Moffat and Gatiss were going to reveal the three Words of the next season of Sherlock. Just like the second season was Woman Hound Fall. I'll put them under a cut, because I guess they could be considered spoilers.

Rat. Wedding. Bow.

So... what in the name of what? The first one is supposed to be The Empty House, and I'm praying to the gods of television that the second one isn't referring to Watson's wedding, for one huge reason. Because, even if The Sign Of Four is amazing and I adore it, and I love Mary Morstan an awful lot, marrying off John, having him move away, and then killing his wife or divorce him just so he can go back to Sherlock and their happy life of crime-solving is so wrong and cruel, I could never stand it. Doyle himself had to kill off or ignore the wife multiple times because the readers were only interested in the crime-fighting duo. And wasting an entire third of a series over a plot point that by its very nature is going to implode and return everyone to the previous status quo, it makes me cringe.

So I'm hoping and praying they actually mean Violet Smith, in The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist. The wedding is the central part of the mystery, everyone's happy and there's jam for tea.

With Bow I guess they're referring to His Last Bow, but that's a very unusual one. Plus, you know, the LAST one. With the retirement and the bees, and it certainly doesn't look like anyone at BBC means to put this Sherlock in retirement anytime soon. So, another puzzling one.

And for the love of all that is holy, what's up with the Rat and Sebastian Moran??? Shouldn't it be Tiger?

Also, S3 will shoot in January and will probably air in the autumn of 2013, possibly August, Sue Vertue confirms. So, it's only one year away! Let's start the countdown! \o/

Comments

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

I'm so very much afraid of what that one word could actually imply.

Oh my.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Wedding? well, I do hope they don't introduce us to Mary just to kill her off five minutes later, because that would be HORRIBLE. And they wouldn't have time enough with only three episodes to make John adjust to another traumatic experience. =_=

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

God no, BOW. Because that would be the end of the series, wouldn't it? A thought too horrid to contemplate. The information they're going to keep us waiting for the new series till the autumn of 2013 is already hardly bearable. I was hoping so fervently they would start airing in the summer. Having to wait a whole other year at least ... it's simply too long.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be too worried. all the actors have said several times they'd love to keep doing it for years, and it's a very lucrative one, it would make no sense for the BBC to stop it at three seasons. I wasn't worried at all when they kept saying on twitter the second one was the last one, because after all, at its core, it's just like any other business, it's about making money. As long as they make money, get awards, and the actors keep coming back, it's all fine.

[dioscureantwins.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you the BBC would be killing the Golden Calf and what with all the discussions about the costs and everything they wouldn't want to.
But I can imagine Moffat and Gatiss worry about artistic integrity. They, and the actors and everyone else from the set designers to the composers, have set such an amazingly high standard I can imagine it must lead to an overwhelming pressure, trying to keep everything at that level. To be honest, I liked ASiB a lot, contrary to what a lot of other people felt about it (it did give us Sherlock in that delightful black shirt which more than made up for any possible shortcomings IMO), HOUND decidedly less and was completely bowled over again by TRF. But though TRF more than made up for the shortcomings of the previous episodes on the whole the intense pleasure at viewing and experiencig was a bit less than the first season with both ASiP and TGG masterful examples of what truly good TV can be.
It must be so hard to have made something that good and to have to live with the pressure of millions of people expecting you to outdo it or at least maintain the same high level.
Hence my anxiety. I'll try to confirm to your more optimistic outlook though. You're completely right one shouldn't worry when there's no obvious proof yet. :)
Thank you.