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qthewetsprocket:

I actually prefer the pilot version of this scene – very, very much so. First we get this recognition shot, which to me seems much more poignant in the pilot version. John is very much outside, apart from Sherlock and his world, and Sherlock gets up and goes over to deliberately join him: a really lovely visual metaphor for their whole relationship being established in this first episode. We’re robbed of that moment in A Study in Pink, where John is slap-bang in the middle of the action almost daring Sherlock to realise that he was the shooter.

Second, we get John’s marvellous “I’ve watched good men die / I’ll sleep fine tonight” speech, which is missing in the actual episode. To me, the John Watson in ASiP seemed far too callous about having just murdered a man, even if it was a not-very-nice man who was in fact an atrocious cabbie.

There are lots of things about the pilot that I wish they’d kept in the series, and besides the hair and costumes, this scene is probably on the top of my list.

YEP ^^

There are a lot of things I like out of both versions, but this is one of the scenes I really appreciated in the pilot.