deducingbbcsherlock:

sometimes I think about Gatiss and Moffat looking at “scarlet” and saying “let’s make it pink“ and then basing the pilot mystery around a promiscuous pink lady and ending John and Sherlock’s first night on a date case with Sherlock looking up at him and screaming “PINK!” like can’t you fucking observe?? and John gazing up at Sherlock in the moonlight while Sherlock looks for the missing pink case that he eventually unearths from a pile of garbage and John tracking Sherlock down using the pink phone and saving his life and then later they kicked off Jim and Sherlock’s first date game by having Jim send Sherlock that pink phone from John and Sherlock’s first date case and Jim texts and calls like crazy and Sherlock spends half the episode checking the pink phone obsessively and wondering about Jim and John gets more and more irritated and basically like John says “there was a lot of pink”

and I wonder if when Gatiss and Moffat finished writing those scripts they looked at each other were like “are we being too obvious?”