So on the five-year anniversary of 'A Study in Pink'' airing, we're taking a look back at the abandoned pilot, which emerges as a less elegant, less ambitious but still entirely recognisable version of the show we know and love. The most striking difference upfront is the aesthetic, which can best be described as televisual. It's clear from watching the pilot just how much of the show's style as we know it was shaped by director Paul McGuigan, who came on board for the reworked 'Study in Pink' and would go on to direct another three episodes.
There are no haunting, rain-hewed glimpses of murder victims swallowing poison here, which makes the central murderous cabbie plot feel less immediate significantly, the only person we see in danger in the pilot is Sherlock himself. The way in which text messages and emails appear on-screen in 'Pink' wove modern technology into the DNA of Sherlock both as a show and a character — see the scene in which he hijacks Lestrade's press conference via text message — and none of that exists in the pilot.
Although Cumberbatch wasn't significantly older when 'Pink' was filmed, his Sherlock in the pilot is more youthful, slightly cockier and slightly less guarded. He's also more vulnerable than the version we know, thanks to a fairly major difference in how the climactic scenes play out.
Whereas in 'Pink', Sherlock goes willingly with the murderous cabbie and remains perfectly in control throughout their showdown, in the pilot he's drugged and kidnapped by the cabbie, who wakes him up at B Baker Street with this chiller: "I thought, why not? People like to die at home. Having Sherlock in genuine danger lends a greater weight to John pulling the trigger from across the street, and it's interesting to wonder what prompted Moffat to make the change.
The team behind Sherlock saved themselves from a big failure by rethinking every aspect of the pilot and working towards what they really had in mind, which was not only more appealing but also did justice to the source material. Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant.
She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings. The news conference is only seen in "A Study in Pink". The "Rache" device is not used in the original pilot. In the pilot, Sherlock's flat is more modern and slightly more organised than in "A Study in Pink", where it appears very dated and disorganised.
In "A Study in Pink", Lestrade uses the ruse of a [pretend] drugs bust to motivate Sherlock to assist him. In the pilot, the final standoff takes place in Sherlock's flat, while in "A Study in Pink" it takes place in a large university hall. In the pilot's restaurant scene, it is implied that Sherlock hasn't eaten in a while. John asks if he's going to eat, Sherlock asks for the date and then states that he's "okay for a bit. This whole chunk of conversation is cut from "A Study In Pink.
The pilot has Sherlock being outwitted by the killer who drugs him without him noticing. In "A Study in Pink" it is the killer who comes to collect Sherlock from his flat in full view of the police. The pilot has Angelo help Sherlock in a ruse to fool the killer. Sergeant Donovan is played by a different actress, and is a uniformed police constable rather than a plain-dressed detective sergeant.
The phone of the murdered lady in pink was different in the pilot. Moriarty is not mentioned as the killer's accomplice in the pilot. John's phone was different, in the pilot he has an iPhone. In "A Study in Pink" he has a much cheaper phone. Anderson has a beard in the pilot. John and his friend Mike Stamford met in different places. In the pilot they met in the city and had lunch in a restaurant but in "A Study in Pink" they met in the park and sat on a park bench.
Some of Molly's scenes were not included in the pilot. They did not show the poison at the beginning of the pilot.
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