Marple: Series 2-3

Dec 05, 2009 21:42

This is one of the most strangely mixed series ever. The visuals are great and the actors are awesome, but it has some of the oddest and sometimes clunkiest rewrites ever. Some episodes actually feel like televised fanfic, especially when they start rewriting the romances (I get the impression Christie wasn’t big on romances, having them mostly in ( Read more... )

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danbi December 6 2009, 07:31:23 UTC
That's a little disappointing to me, that Christie intended for Hickson's portrayal to be like Marple. I thought she was way too ditzy.

At least they got it right (imo) when they picked David Suchet to be Poirot. It sort of makes up for it in my book.

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maxineofarc December 7 2009, 14:06:55 UTC
There are only 50 actors in Britain at any given time as far as I can tell, so they have to recycle.

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