The Sherlock Holmes of 'Elementary' is very unlike the original, beyond the update into a contemporary milieu. Doyle's Holmes was not self-absorbed or immature. He was intensely interested in others, if only as sometimes rather abstract pieces in the grand puzzle that is the world of human relations. His withdrawal into himself on regular occasions was in the service of concentrating his faculties on the problems before him—it was in service of others, then. The self-absorption of the Holmes in 'Elementary,' by contrast, is of…

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