The difference is so big! The unaired pilot one looks so uninviting and gloomy and just bleh. But the normal one has a personality to it; it screams “SHERLOCK” and “JOHN”, it’s so much more brighter and happier, I guess. They really did step it up after the pilot, and thank god for that…
So when the flat is apparently destroyed everything except their chairs and that rug and everything else, Sherlock replaces a lot of the “cornered” furniture with rounded furniture:
A. That’s not their original breakfast table and chairs. They’re now a rounded set with a little shelf under them.
B, C, and D. Same with the long table, the chair at the end of the couch, and the stack of magazines.The sitting room table is now a small rounded one, the chair now has fully padded arms, and the stack of magazines have been replaced with rounded dressers, which Sherlock probably now keeps his military porn stash the magazines:
(E) used to be a hard-edged metal table, and (F) used to be a shelf with a lot of breakables on it.
And (G) used to be a very wobbly-looking side table. It’s been replaced with the sturdy one we see in TFP:
Plus, I believe the bookshelves are also less-cluttered as well, and those glass cases we see in the above image no longer have breakables in them
Sherlock literally changed the common area of the flat so he could be a better parent for Rosie.
Stab me.
Look, I’m not a fan of parentlock in this arc, but good god this is EXACTLY how I imagined Sherlock as a parent. And if we’re going with the John’s TAB theory,this is exactly how John imagines Sherlock as a parent too.
Okay so I went back to check out 221b on google maps again and made a very intersting discovery. this is the table in their living room…
let’s zoom in on this a bit and…. voilà!
there we have it. what else is this if not a bloody tranquilizer gun?!?
like, I I did a quick search online and couldn’t find the exact same model but it looks very similar to this one:
so yeah, Mofftiss clearly know the difference between a handgun and a tranquilizer and so does John Watson – who was definitely shot in TLD – and not with a tranquilizer gun…