REReader wrote:

After our look at Sherlock's father, I could visualize him as not being very handy around the house--which I imagined as leading to young Sherlock figuring out how to do things that he wanted done, like putting up bookshelves, by himself.

 
I could visualize Sherlock excited to get his hands on large tools.

OH GOD!
SAID IT OUT LOUD!

TOPIC!!!!!

Some people think Moftiss may have done terrible things to the character of Sherlock in their modern adaptation.

Discuss!

 

You seem to ask, after a clarification: is there a reason in the writing for Sherlock being called by negative epithets?

Well, in the show he is called: freak, psychopath, arrogant sod. 

He is not a freak or a psychopath, but he is an arrogant sod.

I also don't agree when you say that Sherlock has vices, not flaws. Smoking is a vice. Arrogance is a flaw. 

Anyway, then you go on to post links to some very interesting blogposts about how Sherlock has had to change who he is to deserve love. Both very interesting, but I don't see what they have to do with your original question. I'll just say that yes, it does seem like Sherlock has had to progress to become more "normal" to deserve love. Many will probably argue that Sherlock is just maturing, being more sensitive etc. In TAB John pretty much said it's not human to to be disinterested in romance, to not have "impulses",as he puts it, and that Sherlock is greatly flawed because of that of all things. When he asks: What made you like this? He doesn't ask: why are you so rude and arrogant? He asks: why don't you want a girlfriend/relationship?
Sherlock doesn't reject friendship. not even close friendship. But somehow, the fact that he rejects conventional romance is seen as inhuman, the show implies it means Sherlock won't let anybody close to him. But, he does let John close to him, but that is just not enough. Sherlock needs to settle down, commit romantically, to be considered human. With him and John it was clearly a case of John just being a kind of Mr. Right (platonic or romantic, up to you). Someone who, initially anyway, accepted Sherlock as he was, and even needed him to be the way he was. If Sherlock isn't asexual, then the lack of romantic attachments is most likely because that Miss Right hasn't showed up in the same way, so I don't see why John had to be such a bully about it. But I digress. 

But I suppose Sherlock has been character assasinated, for I don't see that Sherlock in the canon either. I just see a stuffy, victorian genleman. But I don't much care for the canon so I'm obviously not bothered. 

S3 was one long character assassination for me. But with TAB they've done an excellent re-awakening. I'm as much in love with Sherlock again as ever.

To me, Sherlock is still unique and he still has the abilities that separates him from everyone else. I think what they are doing is a good way of making a character development. At first they focused a lot on Sherlock being cold, arrogant and a genius above everyone else. When that was established, they started delving into, and developing, his emotional side.

That is what makes him so interesting to me, how he is so emotional that he tries to divorce himself from that side of himself - and fails. 

To me, the show doesn't make him one of many, but they are slowly humanizing him more and more. 

Also, a man like Sherlock needs enemies on his own level, otherwise it would become too simple and boring, both for him and for us to watch.

Vhanja wrote:

To me, Sherlock is still unique and he still has the abilities that separates him from everyone else. I think what they are doing is a good way of making a character development. At first they focused a lot on Sherlock being cold, arrogant and a genius above everyone else. When that was established, they started delving into, and developing, his emotional side.

That is what makes him so interesting to me, how he is so emotional that he tries to divorce himself from that side of himself - and fails. 

To me, the show doesn't make him one of many, but they are slowly humanizing him more and more. 

Also, a man like Sherlock needs enemies on his own level, otherwise it would become too simple and boring, both for him and for us to watch.

I know what you mean and it´s true that Sherlock has evolved emotionally during the duration of the show. But was it neccessary to remove his intelectual prowess to achieve that? He is still unique as a person, I agree. But is he still unique as a detective or simply as a great mind now? Since everybody seems to possess incredible mental skills in this show all of a sudden.

Sherlock´s enemies could have been given some powers different from Sherlock´s and it still would be interesting, I guess.

nakahara wrote:

I know what you mean and it´s true that Sherlock has evolved emotionally during the duration of the show. But was it neccessary to remove his intelectual prowess to achieve that? He is still unique as a person, I agree. But is he still unique as a detective or simply as a great mind now? Since everybody seems to possess incredible mental skills in this show all of a sudden.

Sherlock´s enemies could have been given some powers different from Sherlock´s and it still would be interesting, I guess.

I haven't seen anything that makes me think they have removed his intellectual prowess. I just think it has been put in the background for a little while as the show focuses more on the emotional and personal drama and character development instead of the detective work. ("Not a detective show, but a show about a detective"). And neither do I see everyone around having developed some amazing skills - apart from Mary. Everybody else are as they always have been when it comes to this part, as I see it.

I still think it's a bit too early to conclude with anything, I want to see where they take this in S4 both with Sherlock and the other characters that surround him before I make up my mind about this.

Last edited by Vhanja (February 10, 2016 12:02 am)