I voted for Robert Downey Jr. Honestly, he’s actually the closest to the Books. And his Watson isnt a dimwit.
The Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonny Lee Miller Holmes are far too much assholes & dickheads. Sherlock really wasnt a asshole or a dickhead.
Basil Rathbone did a great Holmes, but they made poor Nigel Bruce into a idiot dimwit.
I voted Cumberbatch, but have to say that Downey gave an A+ performance as well. Cumberbatch’s physical look of the part gives him the bump. (Miller I have seen but honestly can’t remember much about, which makes me think the others are probably better.)
I voted for Robert Downey Jr. I have been a Holmes fan since I was a child, and I honestly thought his movie was going to suck. I ended up loving it.
Cumberbatch is fine, but I can’t get over the fact that he’s so overexposed. Also, the whole “shippiness” of “Sherlock” bugs me (the whole “I am Sherlocked” thing). I’m an anti-shipper, so that’s why Cumberbatch comes in behind Downey for me.
I like “Elementary” and Jonny Lee Miller, but the longer the series goes, the more he seems to be morphing into the human version of Grumpy Cat. Does the man ever smile?
It makes it all the more luminous when he does…
The Cucumber for me too, of the recent shows. The other two just doesn’t work for me. Not that I’m completely sold on the Bumblesnatch show - he’s a bit too much of an asshole, and I think they’re trying to cram way too much stuff into each episode.
Of course - Brett is the Holmes. I have no love for Basil Rathbone, though. Horrible stuff.
I concur. The Granada series I think of as the first of the new Holmes, dark, brooding and anti-social and started the current trend of Holmes/Watson that truly reflect the spirit of ACD’s work.
That being said I am binge-watching Sherlock right now and while Cumberbatch would get my vote in this poll, it also reminds me of how much better Brett was. The almost dirge like violin pieces that I could swear Brett actually played. Doyle’s Sherlock was a phenomenal actor while in disguise and compare how Brett played the vicar in A Scandal in Bohemia vs Cumberbatch in A Scandal in Belsavis.
I’ve just started watching Sherlock (which is what prompted this poll). One of the things on the DVD was an interview with the show’s creators and they raised an interesting point about how we now associate the characters of Holmes and Watson with the Victorian setting. But they noted that this was not Conan Doyle’s intent. He wasn’t writing historical fiction - he was setting Holmes in what was modern London to his readers. To the original audience, Sherlock Holmes stories were the equivalent of Law and Order or CSI - a mystery thriller set in contemporary times. So by moving the characters up to the 21st century, the show’s creators (and the creators of Elementary) are actually restoring the original feel.
Benedict, among those three. But Jeremy Brett still holds the all-time crown.
If I can’t vote for Lieutenant Commander Data then I’m not voting. So I voted for Downey.
If I can’t say Gene Wilder was the best Holmes, then I am not voting.
OK, that’s a lie. I voted for Miller. Just remarkably well done for an American TV procedural drama, IM ever so HO
Sherlock not Sigerson
Jonny Lee Miller was my choice. He just seems like the most human Sherlock, rather than an adding machine (Cumberbatch) or action star (Downey, Jr.). But I’d echo that Hugh Laurie’s Gregory House was the best Sherlock.
I think David Mitchell earns an honourable mention for his brilliant blending of comedy and tragedy.
She had a very long neck
Oh wait! Wrong one.