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Of Murder Mysteries and Memes
Oct. 30th, 2010 09:37 pmFirst of all ( Poirot:Hallow'een Party (spoilers inside) )
Good job on all fronts.
Thorne:Sleepyhead was less well done. I managed to catch the end through use of the V+ box.
Part of the problem is that they totally got Thorne wrong. Not totally wrong, but the feel of him was off. In the books he's well aware he's mildly ridculous, and several other characters point that out to him too. ( (Spoiler) they also changed )
They kept Alison, who is the most wonderful character in the book, and the one I was most scared of them changing, but they turn the interesting, spikey, short-cropped grey-haired Anne Coburn into someone far more traditionally comforting (and cast long, blonde-haired Natascha McElhone). None of that should be taken as a diss on the actress, who played the now somewhat under-written part as well as it could be.
They also changed the plot. Now I grant the book's plot made sense only in the book but it made sense, and was part of the whole thing that our lead character and his hunches are not always right and the great male hero complex is not a good thing, and the tv show lost all that.
However, I shall be the first to admit that I was watching this for Aiden Gillen. I was intrigued when he was cast, especially since the Radio Times made such a thing of him being in it so I watched the first episode and all he got to do was be background pathologist guy/best friend/mildly suspicious.
I did wonder why he'd taken the part, and then I remembered that this is a man who was in a WWE film, he has no sense or shame.
( Then I saw the 3rd part (mostly squeaking about Aiden Gillen below) )
So yes, I'll be watching more of it, but still for the wrong reasons.
Having seen how long this entry has gotten, meme later.
Good job on all fronts.
Thorne:Sleepyhead was less well done. I managed to catch the end through use of the V+ box.
Part of the problem is that they totally got Thorne wrong. Not totally wrong, but the feel of him was off. In the books he's well aware he's mildly ridculous, and several other characters point that out to him too. ( (Spoiler) they also changed )
They kept Alison, who is the most wonderful character in the book, and the one I was most scared of them changing, but they turn the interesting, spikey, short-cropped grey-haired Anne Coburn into someone far more traditionally comforting (and cast long, blonde-haired Natascha McElhone). None of that should be taken as a diss on the actress, who played the now somewhat under-written part as well as it could be.
They also changed the plot. Now I grant the book's plot made sense only in the book but it made sense, and was part of the whole thing that our lead character and his hunches are not always right and the great male hero complex is not a good thing, and the tv show lost all that.
However, I shall be the first to admit that I was watching this for Aiden Gillen. I was intrigued when he was cast, especially since the Radio Times made such a thing of him being in it so I watched the first episode and all he got to do was be background pathologist guy/best friend/mildly suspicious.
I did wonder why he'd taken the part, and then I remembered that this is a man who was in a WWE film, he has no sense or shame.
( Then I saw the 3rd part (mostly squeaking about Aiden Gillen below) )
So yes, I'll be watching more of it, but still for the wrong reasons.
Having seen how long this entry has gotten, meme later.
