I wanted to make a gifset about all the things I love about Jeremy Brett’s Holmes, or everything I think the Granada adaption got perfectly right, but the list was too long, so here have just some of my favorites.
It’s honestly hard to find anything I DON’T love about Granada Holmes.
He’s allowed to have his black moods, and when he does, Watson takes care of him, reminds him to eat, tries to get him away from the drugs.
He’s MESSY. Capital letters messy. He’s A MESS. Unashamedly. That scene where he gathers all his papers up from the floor, drops them behind Watson’s chair, and then stands in front of them to shield them from sight and acts perfectly normal when a client walks in? I love that so much.
Then there’s the fighting - he can absolutely hold his own in a fight, but they didn’t make him basically superhuman, like some adaptions like to do. Of course he usually beats the bad guys, but he gets hurt, too. And when he does, Watson is there to patch him up. But Holmes still brags about winning, because it’s Holmes and he’s weak for praise, especially from Watson.
Then there’s this little scene at the end of The Dancing Men. “How absurdly simple.” And it just hits me right in the feels everytime. I’m not sure I can quite explain why in coherent sentences, but let me attempt to. Holmes loves to show off. He loves when people are amazed at his deductions, he loves the praise and the admiration. And he also loves to explain how he solved the mysteries, but the thing is, on the other hand - everytime he explains how he got to a conclusion, he’s afraid people will start to ‘realize’ that it’s really ‘not that amazing at all’ and they’ll lose that sense of mystery, and they’ll stop being impressed by what he can do, because ‘anybody could do it’. Because it’s ‘so absurdly simple’. And he’s so torn between wanting to show off and explain how he did it, and at the same time not wanting to explain it because he thinks that this ‘mystery’ is the only thing that makes him interesting to others. GOD, my HEART.
Which brings me to my last part - he’s so GOD DAMN HUMAN. He has so many layers, some of them contradicting each other, and he can be harsh or even rude sometimes but at his heart he’s noble and just and KIND. And he can be cold or condescending and turn people in without hesitation, but then he let’s a murderer go free because justice is bigger than the law. He goes on and on about logic and facts and exact sciences but then waxes poetic about flowers and the goodness of providence when the mood strikes him.
I could go on and on. And all of that, and so much more, is so perfectly captured and portrayed in Brett’s performance. Which is why he is, and will forever be, my Holmes. I just wish I’d had a chance to tell him that.
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