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Sherlock Holmes from the books is a gent. From what I remember more of a knowledgeable deliberative pulls-no-punches vibe than annoying jerk.
Watson mentions a few times that Holmes’ knowledge only extends so far and a lot of it isn’t practical or very structured. He has a complete obsession with investigating crime and knows basically nothing about anything else, except maybe playing the violin. I think a plot point in one book is that Holmes knows absolutely nothing about astronomy?
Yeah it was played as just a character quirk moreso than this overarching dramatic personality flaw that was ruining everyone’s lives
He’s a recluse or autistic or something which turns people off instead of brashness. Although there probably was some brashness too now that I think about it.
Kind of, yeah. I’ve only read a couple of the stories, but it’s basically the same guy lol
Eccentric rude guy whose main redeeming quality is being really good at puzzles and lucking into incredibly forgiving friends.
I’ll say the TV shows give a different vibe. The character drama was not the main point of the Sherlock stories, at all, it was mostly just about solving the mystery
in the books he’s portrayed as a mess.
the fact he gets bored and injects cocaine and is very abrasive are both portrayed as flaws
House’s drug addiction and abrasiveness are also portrayed as flaws as well. The fact they try to make him seem a bit more likable at times is probably because execs feel that “happy endings” and “likable characters” is what keeps people tuning in.
