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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.
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.
he’s not autistic
in part because fictional characters can’t have real conditions that the author doesn’t understand
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?
