Posted November 16, 2014
Ragnarblackmane: I actually started with an even old rendition, Bastil Rathbone, watching them broadcast on AMC and TCM with my dad. I discovered Brett much later but really appreciate his take on the character. Another favorite still though is...
Not even kidding.
So, since the ether apparently ate the first response I tried to post.... :P Not even kidding.
Shortly, I like the Rathbone movies and own several of them. Pretty sure that Jeremy Brett was actually the first Holmes I saw on screen, and he nailed it so perfectly that he'll always be my Holmes. Kind of like people have different Doctors. :)
I haven't seen Data as Holmes, because no matter how much I dearly love ST:TOS, I've never been able to get into ST:TNG. I tried, for the first two years it was on, and then gave up. I'll have to watch the Holmes episodes, at least, at some point as I've never heard anything bad about them from anyone.
And back to your Ultima question: I saw a video of that infamous UO moment, I believe, but that's as close as I've ever come to UO. I never played RPGs on the computer growing up, so my first time playing Ultima was this summer. Sadly, between our summer trip and our move, I left off in the middle and still need to get back to it. I quite enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to playing through the series and getting to see how such an influential set of games evolved.