Dear Agatha Christie purists...
...please SHUT UP about people "messing with" the plots in remakes, because when your argument hinges around a "true-err" remake not having what you're whining about when it does, everything you say is invalidated.
So, every time I feel like looking at comments for the A&E adaptations of Agatha Christie stuff, I come across people tearing into the Geraldine MacEwan version of "A Murder is Announced" and how it's so horrible because it added homosexuality to the plot and the "true" film version with Joan Hickson has no hint of such a thing.
Well, I haven't seen the MacEwan version, but I HAVE seen the Hickson version, and it's there, and this is from someone who has NO "gay-dar" whatsoever when it comes to fiction. The case is essentially that there are 2 older women who live together, ostensibly as companions to save on living expenses, but the real nature of the relationship is obvious. Historically, that was has a lot of homosexual couples were able to be together and still be socially acceptable, and the real nature of the relationship would have been obvious at the time the novel came out.
From what I hear, the MacEwan version just addresses it more directly, as a lot of people today wouldn't realize it when they were watching as it's not exactly a context most people would get...I just happen to devour any book or movie or series I come across set in 18th, 19th or early 20th century England, though it sometimes takes me a while to get around to devouring it.
If the complaints were about making it more obvious, it'd be one thing, I'd understand their stance but acknowledge that making it more obvious was probably necessary, but it's people claiming to know everything about the books insisting that it wasn't there at all, and that there was no hint of it at all in the Hickson version when it WAS there.
End rant.