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I've been thinking....
In Sherlock, the titular character is referred to as having asperger's in the second season and "whatever it is you are" in the third.
In Sherlok Holms, the titular character has the impulsiveness of extreme youth (he's 26, and a young 26 at that), is prone to exaggerate his capabilities, and gets yelled at for his irresponsibility/unreliability by his landlady.
In the Sherlock Holmes movies, the titular character goes right off the rails when deprived of his Watson, who has to smack him back into finishing the Blackwood case. He yells at the landlady, but again it's Watson who has to take the gun away when he starts shooting the walls.
In Elementary, Sherlock Holmes started out literally needing a keeper.
Off the top of my head, in canon Sherlock Holmes kept 98 to 100% of his eccentricities/rudeness/"humanity, WTF?" moments to when he and Watson were alone. With the arguable exceptions of getting his landlady to crawl around on her hands and knees through what was essentially a firing range and the fact that we don't know when he shot up the wall, all the times he put his feet on the furniture/said something nasty/bullied Watson/did something dickish (or more accurately, confessed to have done something dickish) were when only Watson (and his retrospective Strand readership) were present. Even when he's being weird in someone else's house, like nesting in every cushion and pillow in the room, he only actually *did* it when he was alone with Watson.
While that adds a certain charming air of "I only feel free to be completely myself with my best friend" it equally makes me wonder why ALL of the modern Holmeses have dialed the eccentricity up to 11.
In Sherlock, the titular character is referred to as having asperger's in the second season and "whatever it is you are" in the third.
In Sherlok Holms, the titular character has the impulsiveness of extreme youth (he's 26, and a young 26 at that), is prone to exaggerate his capabilities, and gets yelled at for his irresponsibility/unreliability by his landlady.
In the Sherlock Holmes movies, the titular character goes right off the rails when deprived of his Watson, who has to smack him back into finishing the Blackwood case. He yells at the landlady, but again it's Watson who has to take the gun away when he starts shooting the walls.
In Elementary, Sherlock Holmes started out literally needing a keeper.
Off the top of my head, in canon Sherlock Holmes kept 98 to 100% of his eccentricities/rudeness/"humanity, WTF?" moments to when he and Watson were alone. With the arguable exceptions of getting his landlady to crawl around on her hands and knees through what was essentially a firing range and the fact that we don't know when he shot up the wall, all the times he put his feet on the furniture/said something nasty/bullied Watson/did something dickish (or more accurately, confessed to have done something dickish) were when only Watson (and his retrospective Strand readership) were present. Even when he's being weird in someone else's house, like nesting in every cushion and pillow in the room, he only actually *did* it when he was alone with Watson.
While that adds a certain charming air of "I only feel free to be completely myself with my best friend" it equally makes me wonder why ALL of the modern Holmeses have dialed the eccentricity up to 11.
