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Characters such as Sherlock/James Bond/The Doctor have been played by many different actors so my question is; Tell me your favorite/least interpretation of a character.

It can be the ones mentioned above or others :)

Timothy Dalton will always be my favorite Bond (even if nobody else feels that way). I quite liked George Lazenby as well -- there was a vulnerability to his Bond that really appealed to me.

Gene Wilder will always be my Willy Wonka. I like Johnny Depp and all but did not really care for his/Tim Burton's characterizations. It was fun, but like a fun wacky AU version or something.

Jeremy Brett and Vasily Livanov are the only portrayals of Sherlock Holmes I like.

Chris Eccleston was my favourite Doctor Who, followed closely by John Pertwee.

And no one will ever beat Timothy Dalton as James Bond.

Forever in love with Chris Eccleston as my favorite Doctor. Within my friends, his performance is so underrated.

James Bond: I like Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Can't stand Pierce Brosnan, as attractive as I find him. He just wasn't...Bond.

John Watson: I really don't like Freeman's Watson, the rest I could take or leave (well, except Lucy Liu, whom I love. I just don't exactly consider her a Watson, though.)

Bruce Banner: I love Ruffalo's Banner beyond what is reasonable--a little sarcastic, a little awkward, a bucket of angst and self-depreciating humor. My kinda Banner right there. I HATE Norton's Banner, though, which I guess makes me kind of unusual? So glad he wasn't in The Avengers, because I would have spent the entire movie being annoyed at him being there. (And Bana's Banner is okay, just to round out this entire thing.)

Wow, I didn't realize I actually had feelings about different actors. :/ Who'd have thought.

What about Bixby's Banner? His was pretty awesome in an older-man kind of way.

That he was. :) But in the same way I don't really consider Lucy Liu as playing the same Watson as the other actors (due to the gender switch), I don't really consider Bixby the same Banner (due to a different name and TV instead of movies.) I really did love the show, though.

Heh. A fair point.

Joan Hickson is the only Marple for me.

Favourite Batman: Kevin Conroy (if voice actors don't count, then Adam West instead)

Least favourite Batman: George Clooney

Favorite:

Heath Ledger as the Joker. He was just so unsettling and psychotic. Like I could buy that his Joker would slice out your liver just to prove a point that only made sense to him. I would watch a whole movie about his origin. Or at least a movie that dealt with all the origin versions he told.

Least:

Jack Nicholson as the Joker. It was just Jack as the Joker. It was the same over the top, crazy character he has played in just about every movie he has ever done up to that point. I didn't see the Joker when I watched the movie, I just saw Nicholson with FX make-up on.

O_o

Heath Ledger's was brill, but the person he played has no relation to any deception of the Joker ever. Part of that is to blame on the script but no seriously that wasn't the Joker. (But then those movies failed on the characters in fucking general)

Jack will always be the perfect Joker (outside Mark Hamill). Since HI he acted like the FUCKING JOKER not just some psycho in makeup.

How old are you anyways?

Old enough to read the comics and know that the Joker is a psycho, mass murderer in many of the storylines.

Trust me, I am not some teen whose only exposure to Batman was the Nolan movies. I've seen Adam West version of Batman, I've seen all of the cartoon versions of Batman, including the Superfriends, I've seen the Tim Burnon version as well as the horrible 90's movie versions that came when Burton passed the baton. And I like Ledger's the most. But then I like noir thrillers and that's what Nolan's Batman was. A comic character movie interpreted as a noir thriller.

Sorry, no, the Heath Ledger Joker is just a valid version as the Joker as any other. Batman has a dozen different versions, from silly Golden Age, to campy Adam West, to gritty The Dark Knight Returns, the noir Batman the Animated Series, and so forth. There is no 'perfect' Batman that's more valid than any other, because each is merely a different interpretation.

Batman's rogue gallery is no different. There's a dozen different Jokers. You can have your favorites and have some you hate, but they're all the Joker. Heath Ledger's is just as legit as Jack Nicholson's.

Also LOL at 'how old are you'. Batman's been around for 70+ years, so don't try to pull the 'age card' unless you're 80 years old.

The Frank Gorshin Riddler was and always will be the best Riddler. That show was ridiculous and he still managed to come across as intimidating and dangerous - something none of the other 60s TV versions of the Bat villains accomplished.

I'm really torn when it comes to the Doctor and Sherlock Holmes. With both, I like different versions for different reasons and it's kind of like comparing apples and oranges. It's actually better that we don't have just one.

Er...I see all these examples as having different intentions so I can't really compare them. It's not like they're trying to play the same exact person so how the heck am I supposed to say one guy was better at playing X than another? It would be so arbitrary. I mean, I guess I could measure how much I personally enjoyed one interpretation vs another, but that just seems too irrational and subjective for me to feel comfortable commenting on.

Well, since I have nothing useful to say, here's something kind of related: if you say you thought Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor was crap, I WILL automatically side-eye you and assume you don't remember/haven't actually watched his serials and are just parroting pop cultural osmosis until you convince me that your opinion truly is informed. Sorry.

Bill Bixby will always be Dr. Banner/The Hulk, as far as I'm concerned.
And Dirk Benedict is Starbuck, period.
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka is als the definitive performance.

I absolutely despised Brock Kelly's teen-age 'Dean Winchester'.

Oh now, see, you've brought up Starbuck and I have to disagree. Kara Thrace was far superior, being a moody, brazen fleshed-out badass bitch who took no shit from anyone. Dirk Benedict was a cheeseball. :b

Dirk Benedict was a dreamy rogue with a heart of gold who rode a *unicorn* once. He was awesome.

Martin Freeman is the Watson to me. The physical type is a little off (actually mostly just the hair color - Watson has dark hair, dammit), but in terms of the character and who he is, Freeman's version is absolutely perfect; it's really the bulls-eye. I don't particularly care for Cumberbatch's Holmes (but then, I don't think there is a canonical Holmes, to me - Brett probably comes closest but he doesn't have the robust physicality or the streak of ethereal weirdness that I think the character needs).

Martin Feeman might be the best MODERN day Watson. But really you can't say he's THE Watson when he's from the wrong fucking time period with a background that shows it.

I don't know. I feel like the changes that the difference in time period requires are relatively minor to the nature of the character, and that even taking into account those changes, Freeman's depiction of Watson comes closest to the character I envisage in the book. He absolutely defines the energy the character should have and the attitude he should take, to me. Really superlative performance. My opinion at least.

Pierce Brosnan is my favorite James Bond. He is what I felt what Bond is always supposed to be; cool, calm, charming and taking on all sorts of crazy shit with slick debonair. Rampaging through St. Petersburg in a tank like it's no big thing? Hell yeah.

Least Favorite? Sean Connery. Now, it's not totally his fault that he was Bond while the films were packed with racism and sexual assault, but it did bias me against him. Doesn't help that I find him as sleazy as hell.

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