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Miss Marple Thoughts....
Rewrote chapters 29 and 30 last night. Then rewrote them again. Having trouble getting the bad guy's motiviaitons right. I hate that. I think I'm OK with it now.
I don't like to watch random TV. I want to know what I'm investing my time in. So for the last couple of days I've been watching episodes of the new Mystery! series of Miss Marple.
I noted in reading the reviews that a lot of people don't like this version of Miss Marple. There seem to be two reasons for that.
1) They like the actress who played Miss Marple in the old series, Joan Hickson, and Geraldine McEwan (who is physically nothing like her) just doesn't fit as a substitute for them. This is simply a matter of personal preference to me. I like Geraldine McEwan better.
2) They say that the episodes don't follow the books exactly. Well that's pretty much par for the course. I really noticed it when watching episodes of Cadfael. (I recall one episode in particular "The PIlgrim of Hate" that bore almost no resemblance to the book. However, it still made a good mystery as reimagined.) Miss Marple does indeed change some things that are in the books. But I'm still enjoying the new series.
One of the things I do miss from the books, however, is the way that Miss Marple makes her connections. She uses personality typing to solve mysteries. Not that she's out there administering True Colors or the MBTI, but she forms her conclusions about others based on matching their behavior to that of people she's known in the past. I recall this distinctly from the books. Hmmmm....
I don't like to watch random TV. I want to know what I'm investing my time in. So for the last couple of days I've been watching episodes of the new Mystery! series of Miss Marple.
I noted in reading the reviews that a lot of people don't like this version of Miss Marple. There seem to be two reasons for that.
1) They like the actress who played Miss Marple in the old series, Joan Hickson, and Geraldine McEwan (who is physically nothing like her) just doesn't fit as a substitute for them. This is simply a matter of personal preference to me. I like Geraldine McEwan better.
2) They say that the episodes don't follow the books exactly. Well that's pretty much par for the course. I really noticed it when watching episodes of Cadfael. (I recall one episode in particular "The PIlgrim of Hate" that bore almost no resemblance to the book. However, it still made a good mystery as reimagined.) Miss Marple does indeed change some things that are in the books. But I'm still enjoying the new series.
One of the things I do miss from the books, however, is the way that Miss Marple makes her connections. She uses personality typing to solve mysteries. Not that she's out there administering True Colors or the MBTI, but she forms her conclusions about others based on matching their behavior to that of people she's known in the past. I recall this distinctly from the books. Hmmmm....
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I did used to really enjoy Cadfael, quite a lot, but I hadn't read any of the books. (I'm not even sure I realized they were books, to tell you the truth. Silly me, since the vast majority of screen content comes from the written word.) Then again, I'm a big Derek Jacobi fan. We're talking Jacobi Cadfael, right?
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There were 20? books, the last one being "Brother Cadfael's Penance". That's the one where he's reunited with his son. I so greatly wished that they'd made that one (and brought back the actor who played his son in the "The Virgin in the Ice"). I actually have all the books. They are quite good (except the first, which is just some shorter pieces slapped togehter.)
Ellis Peters (Elizabeth Pargeter).
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My husband agreee with you. ;o)
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I have yet to see the right set of people outdo the Brett Holmes series, though - or even come close. I've written several Holmes audio dramas (adaptations and new stories) and in spite of my best intentions I cannot get Jeremy Brett's voice out of my head. I have some other British voice talent in mind for Holmes and Watson as I write, but dang it, Brett's ghost just worms his way back in to my brain. (Ooh, there's a plot bunny!)
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