trialia: A curvy, dark-haired woman in a cream dress, standing in a cream-toned, hilly desert landscape with a hand to her mouth. (misc] let me live)
Tria ([personal profile] trialia) wrote in [community profile] yuletide 2022-09-29 11:24 pm (UTC)

That's the one I meant, yes. Geraldine McEwan has always been my favourite TV version of Jane Marple - I think she manages the "fluffy old dear exterior with a spine of steel" characterisation better than even Joan Hickson could, partly because she so *looks* the part, where Hickson's Marple doesn't really look like someone who could reasonably be described as a "fluffy old dear". That climatic scene of Nemesis gives me shivers, though, and there are few adaptations of Christie that change the story so thoroughly and are still capable of *that*.

"Whose soul are you praying for? Is it mine?"
"Who are you?"
"I am Nemesis..."

Thanks muchly for the info on the new WDTAE adaptation, and your awesome promo post! I'll have to watch that - I have a Britbox subscription, but for some reason it hasn't come up in my recs there, which doesn't make a lot of sense when most of their Christie adaptations are in my watchlist (or re-watchlist, as it were) already.

I completely agree about the Marple WDTAE btw, that thing is frankly a trashfire except for some of the casting. The plot changes muck it up completely, and one can tell that Julia McKenzie wasn't quite settled into her main role in the series at that early point either. I skip it every time I do a rewatch of the show.

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