it's probably because while he is still an undeniable asshole at times (also terrible roommate sometimes too), he'll acknowledge his flaws and he does show respect towards other people when they deserve it. He gets things wrong, but won't go, "FUCK I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE SHIT" he'll just keep working harder to solve a case
he still thinks he's smarter than anyone else he's met though
I am making myself obvious for like the three people I know cross-pollinate from my plurk to here, but I always found it this way: BBC!Holmes is borderline hollywood sociopathic; from the very little I could watch, he comes off as cold and unemotional and uncaring, and god help me I am so tired of watching shows about a cold unfeeling white dude learning to have ~feelings~.
Elementary!Sherlock is bad at social everything, but he experiences them just as much as anyone else does; they make a point of this. He is a broken man, a man with serious and kind of huge flaws and weaknesses, but he still experiences and shows an incredible emotional range. It makes him empathetic, not just sympathetic, to viewers much sooner on in the show's run, and while I can't speak to how much BBClock becomes such, I know that early on he might as well be a crime-solving robot.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 08:29 am (UTC)(link)Re: +1
(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 08:51 am (UTC)(link)he still thinks he's smarter than anyone else he's met though
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)Elementary!Sherlock is bad at social everything, but he experiences them just as much as anyone else does; they make a point of this. He is a broken man, a man with serious and kind of huge flaws and weaknesses, but he still experiences and shows an incredible emotional range. It makes him empathetic, not just sympathetic, to viewers much sooner on in the show's run, and while I can't speak to how much BBClock becomes such, I know that early on he might as well be a crime-solving robot.