Marple: making being old and solving mysteries look good.

[lyssie]

1. Miss Marple + Tuppence Beresford (an aging, alcoholic, ignored Tuppence) = massive awesome. I'm not even sure I can explain it. Maybe it's that it's two women giving the world the finger and going against all logic and doing what's right as opposed to giving up and letting people scare them off. OR treat them like idiots.

2. I quite love Geraldine McEwan as Marple. I find her adorable and can easily imagine her shooting aliens, if need be, yes and I love that she's got every man (and most women) wrapped around her finger.

3. On a tangent, I've managed to read halfway through an actual book. Vigilante by Laura Reeve has managed to survive my exacting and bitchy tastes. Though I really don't care about her bad guys and could do with less of them. sigh.

4. Yes, I do want to write Marple femslash. I just have to consider what to write.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Marple and Tuppence on the road was SO AWESOME!!!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

YES. I think one of the reasons I am so thoroughly enjoying these adaptions is that the episodes are full of women doing things instead of just being victims. I'm not sure I can explain why there's a difference, just that there is.

Also, the one I watched before was 450 from Paddington, and I loved Lucy a great deal and am saddened that she's not there in every one. (I suspect she will one day be Miss Marple, herself!)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think the "women doing things" was pretty constant in the Hickson ones, too, but these seem to...draw a bit more attention to that. In general, I think that Christie was also pretty low on the Dead Women front. Comparatively speaking, of course. I mean, she has way more dead women than, say, Dorothy Sayers, but she also has about 10 times as many books.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Okay, you enjoyed the Marple & Beresford episode. I hated it, but I love the Tommy & Tuppence books and was too stuck on the original book plotline to allow for Marple to suddenly show up in the middle of what wasn't her story.

(I swear in an upcoming episode there is--no, shut up, that might be a plot spoiler.)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I think it helps that I've not read the original stuff. I think I've heard one or two Tommy & Tuppence story, but they didn't stick in any way.

I also have a deep-seated love of women banding together and pulling off outrageous stunts like finding a murderer.

As for upcoming episodes, I know there's at least another that Marple wasn't originally in, and that adaption wasn't so well-done (too convoluted and confusing, iirc) 'Why Didn't They Ask Evans?', that is.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

There are...at least 3 more with McEwan that were not originally Marple stories, and I don't think "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" is one of them.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Oh no! They re-adapted that story for Miss Marple as well?! (They'd done a version of it back in the early '80s, with the same actors who played Tommy and Tuppence in that series. Er, my love for Tommy & Tuppence has been one of long-standing?) I really can't see how they could slip her into that story...aren't there enough of her own to work with?

I can understand the deep-seated love you've got going there. This is why there needs to be more Sam'n'Vala fic out there.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the Tommy and Tuppence story*, but I have seen the old Francesca Annis series. I remember thinking that this one seemed rather "off" for Tuppence to be drunk and lost while Tommy was too busy for her, but enjoyed the Marple/Tuppence teamup a lot.

*I think I actually own all of them, but I haven't read them.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

They're really fun, at least the early ones (the last one was a bit...off, if I remember right). And yes, that really did irk me--Tuppence would never have been sidelined like that, and Tommy would not have gotten away with that "Oh, I'm too busy with Important Things" schtick. Which, maybe I'm misremembering and the adaptation wasn't that bad, but it was all wrong to me.

[brookiki.livejournal.com]

You're watching this series now, too? Cool. :-)