A_Velarde23 wrote:
It seems to me that now they have started to concentrate more on his eccentricities and on giving him a romantic life, than on his detective skills. For example, in the original series he states that he has never been in love, that he isn't an admirer of women. He both dislikes and distrusts them, and is even described as more of a machine than a human. Yet in many different adaptations, he is given a romantic life with either one or many partners. It makes me wonder if changes like these are necessary to his story.
I have several adaptations of Sherlock Holmes that I really like, while others, I feel, are steering away from the mystery elements in the original stories. I was wondering if after reading the Sherlock Holmes series, do any of you feel any adaptations, both old or new, did justice to it? Which would you recommend, and do you feel the changes being made to the original are good or bad?
If by
adaptations you are referring to stories written by authors other than Arthur Conan Doyle (and I assume you are) I can tell you now that they are bogus misrepresentations of the character created by the original author. In my own opinion anything written by
anyone other than A.C. Doyle is to be dismissed out of hand, for there is no "original series", there is only THE series - everything else is a fraudulent, "monkey with a parasol" attempt by "authors" with apparently no creative talent of their own to capitalize on the genius of A.C. Doyle.
If you are suggesting that in THE original series of works by Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes becomes enamored with members of the female persuasion you are patently wrong. He admired Irene Adler in
A Scandal In Bohemia because she bested him ... he was smitten by her brains not her looks. In other stories such as
A Case Of Identity or
The Copper Beeches Holmes demonstrates his disgust with men who would impose upon the sensitivities of women, but only because in doing so they overstep the bounds of ethics and gallantry, not because he romantically admires the women of these stories.