Question about Sherlock

OMG A POST ABOUT SHERLOCK. HOW SURPRISING.

I'm curious about the Pilot. Why does it exist? I haven't actually seen it, but I have seen screencaps and clips. From what I can gather it's the same basic plot as A Study in Pink, but with a much smaller budget (sets, clothes, poor Sherlock's flat hair), and characters that haven't really been rounded out yet.

1. Its existence: why?

2. Was there anything vastly different about it? Mycroft doesn't exist?

I'm not sure I've ever seen a show do this before. (Have they? Is this a BBC thing?) It's like they filmed the dress rehearsal, and the director thought it was all crap and changed everything. Maybe it's a good thing - the characters did seem to hit the ground running in Pink.

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For some reason -- *sniffs my water suspiciously* -- I've assigned dog breeds to characters. This is fandom, and sometimes you do weird shit in fandom. So here are dogs for Doctor Who, Sherlock, The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. (The last two are for goldy_dollar. Just so we're clear.)

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