A little lighter on the vinegar, please
Sunday, January 1st, 2012 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serai.
Okay, so I'm greatly enjoying the BBC's new take on Sherlock Holmes, but I have one rather strong complaint, and that is this:
They've turned Holmes into an asshole.
I mean it. He's rude, insensitive, condescending, and sometimes just plain mean-spirited. He was never like that before. Sure, he wasn't the warmest guy in the world, and he definitely thought everyone else's brains were inferior to his, but he knew how to be around people. He knew how to be polite, how to pay attention to people in a way that made them think their troubles mattered, and he knew how to listen. This guy doesn't seem to know how to do any of that. This new episode had me rather shocked within the first three minutes - that montage of him seeing prospective clients was just mean. The Holmes I remember from the original stories would never have been so nasty.
Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me?
Okay, so I'm greatly enjoying the BBC's new take on Sherlock Holmes, but I have one rather strong complaint, and that is this:
They've turned Holmes into an asshole.
I mean it. He's rude, insensitive, condescending, and sometimes just plain mean-spirited. He was never like that before. Sure, he wasn't the warmest guy in the world, and he definitely thought everyone else's brains were inferior to his, but he knew how to be around people. He knew how to be polite, how to pay attention to people in a way that made them think their troubles mattered, and he knew how to listen. This guy doesn't seem to know how to do any of that. This new episode had me rather shocked within the first three minutes - that montage of him seeing prospective clients was just mean. The Holmes I remember from the original stories would never have been so nasty.
Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me?
