Reasons I don't believe this

Posted this on tumblr earlier.

Read this first:
http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/344757

So… we’re all kind of hearing that the third season of Sherlock will be the last, right? Bull crap. And I have reasons for this.

Reason number one: I don’t want it to happen, so it won’t. [This is my most powerful fangirl reason.]

Reason number two: This quote —> “Now [Cumberbatch] can keep the Sherlock writers on their toes, he claims mischievously. ‘I need to have some more talks with them and tease them about the fact that I do have a career outside of Sherlock now, so they’d better write something.’” He’s obviously joking. People aren’t thinking again. “Think. It’s the new sexy.” -.-

Reason number three: I’ve watched and read multiple interviews with Steven Moffat where he says that they’re looking forward to exploring the stories further. He’s always going on about how there are so many Sherlock Holmes stories and they’ve only touched a few of them. Not only that, but he expresses a desire to develop the characters to the point where most other adaptations come in (that is, middle age), saying that because they started the show at the very beginning, when Holmes met Watson, they’ve still got a lot of material to cover. [None of that is verbatim, of course, and I can’t find any of the interviews at the moment but if you run across them, can you send me the links, please? Thank you.]

Reason number four: There are only three episodes (that’s 4 and a half hours) every two years. If the filming for that can’t be fit into an actor’s schedule, he needs a new person to do his planning for him. It’s not like it’s a sitcom or a regular show with regular seasons and a regular amount of episodes.

So, until Gatiss and Moffat make an announcement that season three will be the last, I refuse to believe any hype or rumors. I just can’t get worked up over something that isn’t confirmed. Granted, while the word Bow kind of indicates that maybe, just maaaaaaaybe, we’re hitting the end, I also know that the creators love to tweak things and use multiple cases in one episode and put them most definitely out of order. I’m thinking here of The Blind Banker, which uses elements from at least three different cases from different points of the Holmes timeline: The Valley of Fear, The Sign of the Four, and The Adventure of the Dancing Men. (See this website: http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/SherlockTimeline.html) I think it’s cuz it keeps us as fans on our toes and in suspense. Also, they’ve taken such care with slowly developing the characters that I don’t think they’ll just rush them into retirement immediately (and let’s face it, if Bow is the last episode ever, and they stick to canon there, that would make Sherlock old), even if the actors are busy. It wouldn’t do the series justice and I know that both Gatiss and Moffat are huge nerds about Sherlock Holmes and want to give it as much honor as they can.

Yeah…… sorry for the rant. I just get frustrated when people believe (and panic over) everything they read on the internet without actually thinking about it. It’s a rumor. Keep calm.