It went from being a so-so detective story to feeling like we were watching Sherlock Holmes' movies.  The pilot felt very unpolished next to the final version.  I'm glad, though, that they were able to do the pilot like that, because I think it gave them a better feel for what worked and what didn't.

I saw it ....it's still better than many finished shows but it lacks something aside the obvious Mycroft
I don't think it would have been the same impact

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I'm not so sure...the Pilot wasn't bad by any means. What it's mainly missing is Mycroft, and they might have added him in a later episode. I think the show would have been succesful in any case, but what gave it the final push from a "good show" to an "outstanding show which will be remembered" is the changes they made later on, the camera angels, the writing on the screen, Sherlock's deductions aso.

I completely agree with you... I think Mycroft was a big part of the episode, and I also agree with what the person before me said - about the cabbie screaming 'Moriarty!' when he died.
I think also in the final version of 'A Study', it works really well when Sherlock realises that the cabbie's killing all those people so his children can get some inheritance when he dies from his anuerism. From what I remember, they didn't include that in the pilot, and I think that the reasoning 'I've outlived 5 people' is a bit off without something else there to suppot it =/
Well at least that's what I think happened, I can't really remember =D

So the gay thing is a bad thing? 

I don't like the pilot despite the writing is very similar. The flat 221 b is too colourful and bright.
Everything it too nice. I don't know how to put it. Even Sherlock himself is too nice.
The cabbie scene in ASiP is just perfectly played by both actors. When Sherlock is drugged in the pilot the confrontation scene just doesn't have the right impact.
It is much better when both men face each other and combat intellectually without drugs being involved.
 

Yeah, that was sweet. I also like the scene where John explains that he's seen many men dying - most of them undeserving - and that he knows he did the right thing by shooting the cabbie. Goes to show that death is a serious issue, after all.

I do very much agree with you, Be. It's all like a gigantic nice fluffy and colourful ... well... I don't really find the right noun. The confronation scene bothers me. I swear, I thought that cabbie was actually going to rape him. It all seems very strange.