Comments | suffolkgirl: Doctor Who - The Wasp and the Unicorn

suffolkgirl

Doctor Who - The Wasp and the Unicorn

May 17, 2008 21:06

I loved it. A great light-hearted fun episode...and I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan (I think I have read all of her books, most of them several times) so I thoroughly enjoyed all the Christie in-jokes - I think I will have to watch it again just to count the number of her book titles in the dialogue. Very clever usage of her real life ( Read more... )

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tracyj23 May 18 2008, 14:46:17 UTC

I'm with you. I loved the episode (just watched it last night). It was wonderful to have so much fun and no Martha ( ... )

suffolkgirl May 18 2008, 18:18:27 UTC

It was wonderful to have so much fun and no Martha.

I enjoyed watching something light with no angst - makes a nice change from most of my TV watching! I like Martha but thought her presence was unnecessary in the last episode, definitely worked better without her.

I was wondering if Agatha Christie had disappeared in real life - now I know.

Yes, the newspapers of the day made it a big story. She never talked about it but the usual theory is that she had a nervous breakdown after discovering her husband's affair and just walked out on her life for ten days.

I was about 50/50 on her stories - half of them were fantastic with endings I couldn't have guessed. The other half were just copies of previous stories and were obvious right from the first chapter.I find her short stories aren't as good as her novels, and her later novels show signs of plot re-use and are quite slow moving. But when she's at her best, they are brilliant. I think I enjoy them because I have that kind of mind that enjoys seeing how all the little puzzle ( ... )

tracyj23 May 19 2008, 12:09:35 UTC

I have the sort of mind that loves puzzles too. That's probably why even my bsg stories (which are supposed to be romance) come out eire tons of mythology - it's the oneplace there's mystery in the show.

And yes, I think Cluedo and Clue are one in the same - just with a different name over here. :) We have it,and a Harry Potter version of it as well. "Hermione Granger cast the petrificus totalis spell in the potions classroom." loads of fun!