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I have now watched some of Sherlock and I have been a fan of Elementary since its beginning.

I have decided Elementary is better. Why!? :O Why would I say such a terrible thing!?

Well. Quite simply. Moriarty.

The BBC's effort is superb in general and I enjoyed it. It was funny, clever and nicely done. Elementary is a good twist on the original tale and Johnny Lee Miller plays an accessable yet largely loyal to the source material Holmes as best we could get relistically in this day and age. Ultimately they are very different beasts and difficult to compare.

So how did I? Well, as previously mentioned - Moriarty.

WARNING!!! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

The Moriarty in Elementary turns out to be Irene Adler. After learning of Holmes' abilities and successes she, yes SHE, intervenes in his life as Irene. She ultimately ends up destroying Holmes but is captured and ends up in jail. Despite this there is a great sense of this struggle between them. She is at one point the only person he can access the same as he is to her. On the other hand her smooth ways make it wholly believable that she can be the princess and her duping of Holmes is, again, believable.

Sherlock on the other hand. Well... Moriarty is poorly acted ("I will burn you. I will burn the heart out of you." HA! Omg, I laughed so hard) and their insistence that he is 'insane' makes it incredibly unbelievable that he could pull off the things he does. Even the Joker's insanity is contained enough to give credibility to his acts. Moriarty then ends up killing himself, another utterly stupid move, I don't care even if he does think it was the key to defeating Holmes. In the books when Holmes kills himself it is to stop a great evil, it's a necessary sacrifice. In this case Moriarty is doing it solely to best Holmes.

So yes. It was hard, nigh impossible to compare them but based on the calibre of how they handled Holmes' archnemesis I have to hand the crown to Elementary.

Moriarty isn't dead in Sherlock. He cant die. Otherwise Sherlock would die of boredom

Hi Semper my love.

Personally, I feel that Sherlock has what a modern day Sherlock Holmes would have to be in order to accomplish what he does. Elementary's Sherlock feels underwhelming and a bit boring in contrast to Sherlock.

The only difference I feel is that Sherlock's plot is on a grander scale than Elementary and as you can tell, Elementary is more suited to a long term television broadcast with possible explosions within the plot line where Sherlock is suited to the mini-series style.

Debating Moriarty vs Moriarty.. I would have to give that crown to Elementary. It was very unexpected and very well done even if a sad ending (is it over?) but then again, you cannot compare much as the Moriarty within Sherlock [spoiler]is still alive[/spoiler] and has far more time to outshine her. I cannot remember if I am mistaken with the spoiler, it has been so long.

If I had say.. 15 episodes of Sherlock vs 45 of Elementary? I would choose Sherlock without a seconds hesitation. My vote goes to Sherlock purely because of the Sherlock and Watson compatibility. Just feels right.