r/SherlockHolmes

My favourite version is the Stephen Fry version as he captures the fun/wonder of the Canon but also the darkness.

Y a-t-il des spécialistes français, suisses ou anglais de Sherlock Holmes ? Ou de gens capables de l'analyser du point de vue psychologique par exemple ?
J'ai beau chercher sur internet, je ne trouve pas.

There are so many different adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and I've always found it very fascinating to see how these books will always stay relevant and interesting to people. Tbh the first time I've read the original stories was because I've seen an adaptation that I absolutely loved and I wanted to get familiar with the original, and now it's one of my favorite things to read and talk about!

I'd love to know what people on here think about adaptations and about what they would've wished to see in adaptations in general :)

In the original story, Irene Adler is an opera singer and actress, a talented artist who genuinely falls in love with the worthless King of Bohemia, and thinks they might have a life together. Later, she is shown to be loving and loyal to her one true love, a devoted married woman acting out of fear and caution.

In the BBC production "Sherlock", Irene Adler is a reckless, rash, criminal woman who sells sexual services, cavorting around naked, near escaping death and ingeniously saved by Sherlock- it's so degrading, so demeaning and sexist, it really left a bitter taste.

Remarkable how a Victorian writer can have so much more progressive sensibility than the modern-day writers.

the silver blaze

the speckled band

sherlock 103

Sidney Paget's illust through the years

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guys if i said i have stuff of sherlock i mean this am i a true fan?

Mind you, i like the show fine. But there are moments where developments feel out of nowhere or cliche even though i can’t really prove it, and the acting just doesn’t feel natural even though i cant really point to how. Does anyone else find this? Because it just keeps bothering me whenever i watch it.

One of my favourite little moments in The Priory School is Holmes examining bicycle tracks and identifying the type of bicycle from the marks left behind.

It’s easy to forget just how new this sort of detective work would have seemed to contemporary readers. Holmes is effectively doing forensic analysis of tyre tracks, long before this became routine police work.
And, naturally, he can tell far more from a bicycle track than most of us could tell from the bicycle itself.

It does make you wonder what Holmes would make of modern forensic science. Probably complain that everyone has made deduction unnecessarily complicated.

Whether it's a series, movie, cartoon, or anime, whatever it may be