the symphony that got lost

I liked the available rump version so much that I had to buy a Region-1 DVD with special contents. And now I regret even more the symphony that got lost. I just wish to share with you the development of the various aspects of Holmes's character as they would have been offered to the spectator according to original intentions. First appearance: nearly unbearable self-assurance (just to show that he was right in his deductions he knowingly scares to hell a pitiable man on the run); then the unpalatable flat-sharer, shouting angry at his landlady for dusting his desk, using (Watson's) cocaine and playing violin, unwashed and unshaven, when no interesting cases engage his mind; next, Holmes showing some feeling of friendship, when he pretends to discard cocaine for the sake of Watson (but, though Watson is moved, the film-viewer knows that it was all a disguise); then the elegant gentleman who can reject a (mad)woman only by inventing another engagement - but with a man! (can you appreciate the incredible indifference to social conventions in his response to Watson's "What if we got married?" - "Then they would really talk!"); yet the spectator is shown that Sherlock does have some painful feelings about women; later we see the seraphic "teacher" viewing pupil Watson's blunders in the case of the naked homeymooners; and last, in the long detective story centered on finding Mr. Valladon, we learn of Holmes's real experience with women from a flashback and we scarcely have the time to guess a deeper than admitted interest in M.me Valladon before the painful finale... Now that would have been, in its entirety, a real homage to the man behind the mask.