Miss Marple

[redfiona99]

It's no secret that I do not like the vast majority of the ITV Miss Marples (to the point that I should probably apologise to my twitter peeps for complaining about them at least once a week). Because they keep changing the story, and I know most of Agatha Christie's work barely hangs together, but it does and there is normally a reason for things and changing everything (including the murderer, the motive, the settings, the characters and/or all of the above) means they tend not to work at all.

Oddly enough, the ones where they mess with the original story the least are the ones that work the best. I'm watching their take on The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side right now, and in it they barely change anything, and it's the best of the lot.

And Nigel Harman's version of Jason Rudd is probably my favourite take on the character out of all the different versions.

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[coneyislandbaby]

The one I liked best they messed with the original story a lot (in that it wasn't a Miss Marple originally). But it had Burn Gorman in the very first Non Owen Role I ever saw him in (of course now I have seen him in many Non Owen Roles), and it had several other Who/Torchwood people, including Camille Coduri and Burn's and her characters had a fling which... well, contemplating Jackie and Owen... and Jane Seymour was his mother and Richard Armitage his brother (adopted in both cases) - the other Whovian was Gugu Mbatha-Raw as his sister who i want to say was also in love with RA's character but that may have been another - there was quite the brood of adopted children.