No, not really. I have read all of the novels, just not watched the shows. The thing is, Sherlock Holmes is never wrong or makes a mistake, except when he makes a mistake on purpose to make someone else make a mistake(except once in the entire series). You can't make the kind of ridiculous "really basic deductions" that Sherlock does on a regular basis and always be able to tell everything about a person and where they've been based entirely on the color of dirt on their shoes and the fact that they haven't cut their fingernails recently, or whatever, with 100% accuracy. There's one scene I remember where Sherlock and Mycroft are playing that game about people passing on the street, and the book doesn't even bother to confirm their suppositions, it's just taken as a given that they are correct in whatever they say. Science and deductions are only a means to get across the true point of the story, which is just how amazing Sherlock is, and if you didn't understand that, maybe you need to try re-reading some of the stories.It depends what you mean.
In the old stories, Sherlock is often just doing really basic deduction. They were written in a time when the concept of detective work was in its infancy, and so it's really just about this guy bothering to think about stuff in a scientific fashion, and he only looks exceptionally smart because everyone else is shitting themselves inside out over magic ghost dogs or whatever.
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