MNRebecca wrote:

erunyauve wrote:

No, I'm referring to the current work Arwel Wyn Jones and crew are doing on the set in preparation for Series 3... 

Hey, what's up with that? [Please redirect me if this is being discussed in another thread.]  Why do they have to rebuild 221B?  Didn't they keep the set from series 2? 

No, something that huge would not be kept on its sound stage for two years, waiting for the next round of filming. The sound stage is hot property and used for many different films and TV. I'm sure that after season 2 was finished, they broke everything down into its pieces and stuck it in a storage unit somewhere (all the furniture too), and now it's being reassembled on a sound stage again.

MNRebecca wrote:

ancientsgate wrote:

I'm sure that after season 2 was finished, they broke everything down into its pieces and stuck it in a storage unit somewhere (all the furniture too), and now it's being reassembled on a sound stage again.

THAT's the part I was wondering about!  I thought they were starting from scratch, as if they'd recycled the materials for another production due to lack of storage space or something.

They could be starting from scratch, but I doubt it. Especially the furniture and some of the props, all of that would be hard to duplicate again, seems to me-- like that weird cow skull light on the wall in the LR of 221, and the wallpaper smiley face bullet holes, and the skull, and their chairs and couch, etc.

But from the Twitter pix, they are rebuilding it exactly as it was.

AliceI wrote:

If they pick up season three two or three years after Sherlock fakes his own death they could really do anything they want with the set right?

Isn't that what happened in the books? The 2-3 year gap I mean.

They're obviously not doing anything different. The set for 221B that's going up is immediately recognizable. My hope is that John has been right there waiting for him, during whatever gap of time they decide will have elapsed.

besleybean wrote:

Tho he did say he couldn't go back to the flat...obviously soembody's been living there or something is gonna happen there, pretty soon!

Well he did say that he couldn't go back at the moment. He just needed some time to process I think.
 

Unless it takes 3 years to remove the threat!

I think she would leave it, to remind her of Sherlock.

ancientsgate wrote:

AliceI wrote:

If they pick up season three two or three years after Sherlock fakes his own death they could really do anything they want with the set right?

Isn't that what happened in the books? The 2-3 year gap I mean.

They're obviously not doing anything different. The set for 221B that's going up is immediately recognizable. My hope is that John has been right there waiting for him, during whatever gap of time they decide will have elapsed.

They could use the set they're building now for scenes playing in the past and make a second one for present and future.
 

Finally got to watch this last night while I was lazing around coughing and generally feeling like crap. It was a real pick me up, lol.

Anyway, not that it matters now, but there were quite a few things in the Pilot that I wish they would have kept in S1E1. I just wanted to say it to people who would understand :D

I thoroughly enjoyed Sherlock calling for Angelo to bring him wine and then instantly splashing it on his face. That was classic Sherlock in every sense of the word. In order to play the part you have to do it well!

The way he fights the drugs is pretty amazing, too, seeming to stay almost lucid and able to banter with Hope.

My absolute favorite thing in the whole episode is at the end when Lestrade watches John and Sherlock walk away from the scene. He looks at John, then to Sherlock, back to John and then down at his notebook, where he proceeds to rip out all of the pages of notes he had taken when Sherlock was sitting on the ambulance. That was beautiful and said SO much!  (Though pairing that little scene with the boys giggling as they walked away from the scene would have been amazing. I think I'm going to add that to my head canon now.)

Of course, there were some things that I am truly thrilled they changed: Anderson's horrible beard. That was just yuck. I have a hard time believing a CS Tech would be permitted that much facial hair without wearing a net around it.

Donovan--just looks horribly uncomfortable and uptight in that yellow jacket.

Sherlock's clothes! I never thought I would say this, but everytime that shirt hitches out of his pants I wanted to....well, scream, I think. I've never been one for suit porn of any type, but the change was a good one.

For some reason, the camaraderie between the boys is just different in this episode. In some ways a bit warmer (for want of a better word.) It just seemed that Martin and Ben were having an awfully great time just being there. Once we hit E1, I think it's like everyone just "got serious," it's still enjoyable, but now there's a drive to perhaps "get it right." I dunno. It may have been the fever I was running, but that was my impression.

Still! This is the absolute BEST adapation of Doyle's work, in my opinion, ever. It's fun to watch and I get a little thrill everytime I recognize some "little" nod to canon (or Poe, if I may!)  Like many others here, I've been reading (and now re-reading) all the Doyle stories and I think I've fallen in love with them all over again.

One thing that really struck me between the pilot and the aired A Study In Pink is Sherlock and John's conversation after Sherlock realizes that John killed the cabbie.

(I won't get the wording exactly right, but it's the idea.)

Pilot:

SH: You have just killed a man.
JW: Yes.  In Afghanistan I saw lots of men die.  Good men.  Friends of mine.  Sometimes I thought I'd never sleep again.  I'll sleep fine tonight.
SH: Quite right.

Okay, so John is not going to be losing sleep over this.  This is justifiable homicide, he was doing what he had to do.  But there's still a gravity to the situation.

ASiP

SH: You have just killed a man.
JW: Yes.  But he wasn't a very nice man.  And a bloody awful cabbie.
SH: He was a bad cabbie.  You should have seen the route he took to get us here.

<giggles>

Ummm geez.  That's cold.  That's really really cold.  And it's a deliberate change they made from the original pilot.