#the pilot was a showdown of benedict’s curls #and the pure gayness
^yes.
Sherlock? Sherlock, why are you looking at him like that? Sherlock? Sherlock?
Oh, come on, you know why he’s looking at him like that. ^_^
Their first date aside, I didn’t find the pilot as gay as Ep 1, myself. But by god John looked SO FINE in it (John pleeeeeeeeeeeeease lose the button-ups, you look SO GOOD with a neck). And Sherlock looked pretty damn good himself. More…vulnerable, I guess, than the humanoid force of nature he is in the series. I can imagine pilot!Sherlock subbing for somebody.
But fandom and lusting aside for a moment (mrrrr John’s neck though), I LOVE LOVE LOVE that they had the guts to show us the unreleased pilot. It is SO COOL to see their process—something that rarely happens with television, because it’s so expensive and time-consuming to roll things out—and so amazing to watch how the writers and directors and actors shaped and evolved their interpretations from the first try to the second. They are, in subtle but very important ways, different shows.
But I still can’t decide whether I like Sherlock better in hipster suits or skinny jeans. <3