The original Sherlock Holmes was NOT gay. Bazil Rathbone was, is, and always will be the best Sherlock Holmes.

he's not the original. the original is in short story form :P

i'm a sherlock fan of the written form. i never really got into bazil's portrayal, never really enjoyed the hollywood remakes or portrayals, and generally hate what tv does to his character.

but moffatt seems to really grasp what sherlock is. he's just added some modernization. and really, people have been giggling that holmes and watson are a pair for aaaaaaaaaages

I dunno. I've seen the Rathbone version, and I can't say it convinced me quite as much as the Jeremy Brett version.

Deduction! Deduction! Whats your function?

Never really got into books and movies...Except for the movie were Watson and Holmes were kids just going into prep school. I still laugh at remembering that cupcake trying to force its way down Watson's throat.

So in light of this I'm a little clueless...I always thought of Holmes as being more asexual about relationships because he was always the intellectual person.

Young Sherlock Holmes! that's the stephen spielberg one. i watched that a lot cause it was on a bootleg tape immediately following Goonies.

holmes is def. asexual, their relationship isn't sexual at all. i know it's a hard concept for people to grasp but...that's just how it is. you don't have to be a sexual person in order to have a partner, y'know?

It is starting to sound like a hard concept for some people to grasp. Which makes it so strange, it seems like such a straightforward and simple concept.

It's as simple as me not being interested in steamed asparagus, it's as simple as that.

exactly!
...wait, asparagus?

Don't dismiss asparagus.
I avoid it due to the post-digestive smell, but if I was in Germany, the Lowlands or France during asparagus season, I'd eat it all the freaking time.

Hmmmmmm...Though maybe that's over simplifying it.

Any good relationship we're told of is not based on sex alone. So it stands to reason that sex is not the important part of a relationship. It's how you interact with a partner, how you talk, laugh, debate, hug maybe once and a while. So it stands to reason you can have a healthy relationship without sex if its the smallest thing on the list.

and for sherlock, who's a very atypical human being and overly analytical about everything, it's practically an impossibility. there's just so much more he'd rather do with his time. and watson is able to understand this, which by itself is kind of a feat of relationship...

I have known a few people who are genuinely asexual. The energy and drive that would normally go into sexual desires is redirected to one's creative passions. In Holmes' case, working on a case is like masturbating, and solving it is like release. Thing about it: having completed the act, one feels content and exhausted, at least for a short time. But soon enough, the need returns, and if it isn't answered, it lingers - and malingers.

Tiny ROGER. OMG.

But, yes. Sherlock. I wish I wasn't so busy today. AH! I MUST watch HOUNDS.

RURI HAS BABBY ROGERS

I like the 21st Century Sherlock Holmes shown on Masterpiece Mystery.

Alistair Cook once said that Sherlock Holmes would be obsolete in contemporary settings because forensic technology does what he did better.

But this series proves the statement wrong. Holmes uses current technology better and more creatively than the police. Also, the side characters openly speculate about Sherlock being gay.

As to his eccentric behavior, a chief detective sniped something like:

"What do you expect from a sociopath?"

Holmes: "Act-chully, I'm a high-functioning psychopath"

Watson is a Gulf War veteran combat surgeon with PTSD.

Mrs Hudson is utterly unchanged from the Victorian setting. She barges in with food and worries about the general health of Holmes and Watson.

This would be the version we're watching.

You mixed up psycho and socio.
And...I thought Watson went to IRAQ. x.O

nah he called him a psychopath, sherlock retorted with high-functioning sociopath.

the two terms are really kind of interchangable, though. but typically we think of a psychopath in a much more negative light.

Ah! Sorry.

I thought you were refering to the Jeremy Brett Victorian series.

Is it weird that I always liked Auguste Dupin better than Holmes?

Then again, I'm just a little Poe fanboy :V

to each literary nerd their own!
my poe phase coincided with my teenaged years. so now if i read poe i'm reminded of those years and want to just hide my face in shame for weeks on end.

Too much amontillado for you huh? :P

as a tween? hell naw son, i was straight-laced til i was 18.

Who is the baby Ruri is holding?

ruri's kid!
it never comes up in the comic, but she is a mom

Aww! Kinda makes some of the things she says in the comic such as "female instinct" and "it's instinctive to coddle" make more sense now.