Clearly, the quality of these two gifs are not equal but just looking at them you get the reason why you so desperately need to see this unaired pilot.
It is shorter, there are less cameos (Mycroft doesn't get his fabulously dramatic entrance) and it's thirty minutes shorter but what it lacks in pure quality and polished charm is the raw, unfinished nature of it.
It is so apparent that all of them (Moffat, Benedict, Martin, Rupert) have not finished making all of the great and small decisions about their characters, about the relationship and about the structure as a whole.
Both Sherlock and John are younger in the unaired pilot, Sherlock is practically a teenager while John is less an aged, world-weary soldier and more defianlty homosexual Three Continents Watson.
Some of the delivery is sloppy, Sherlock moves likes he's just recently learned but he's open in a way that actual canon denies possible.
John is dressed in stylish coats and open collar dress shirts. The limp is incredibly disgusting and fake but he's also eye-fucking Sherlock over the firelight and shooting the cabbie.
Every time I really get into a fandom, I try and watch the unaired pilot. First of all, to see who that one actor/actress is that gets replaced (in this case, Sally Donovan is some other black English woman with less power and weaker line delivery. They really dodged a bullet there)
It's so apparent in some cases how much deliberation and minute action goes into a character. The littlest things like the cut of a coat can tell you so much about a person and their motivations. Watching the pilot was like getting a glimpse at Johnlock (ship name) in utero.
If this last gif does not convince you then you're dead inside.
That is all.
For everyone who has not seen the wonderfulness that is the unaired pilot, please go to
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtsdwg_ssherlock-2010-unaired-pilot_shortfilms
That's really interesting. It's cool to see how rudimentary any character in a show is when the pilot first airs compared to later episodes. You not only get to see the development of the character, but you also see the transformation the actor makes in order to portray that character.
ReplyDeleteSo I think this is a good place to talk about how amazing Martin Freeman is as an actor. I haven't seen the unaired pilot but you haven't seen a shit ton of the things I keep telling you to witness so screw you. But we can both agree that Martin Freeman is underrated in the fact that he acts with his face. Being able to say a line with power is something amazing and many actors do that well. But Martin Freeman can have an impact in a scene WITHOUT SPEAKING! I feel like people forget that actors have to make conscious body choices when acting and Mr. Freeman acts with that sexy body of his. So AMAZING! I need more actors to do this because it means that they will shine through even when the script is trash *cough Teen Wolf wheeze Dylan O'brian cough*
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