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Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons
Elanor
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Anyone else watching?
I'm really enjoying it. It's one of the few that I've read and know well enough to remember who dunnit.
The cast is great! I love playing the what's-she-been-in-before? thing.
I'm really enjoying it. It's one of the few that I've read and know well enough to remember who dunnit.
The cast is great! I love playing the what's-she-been-in-before? thing.
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Oh well, save it for another time
I've enjoyed the new series of poirot compared to the last one, although I do have a minor gripe about the picture quality.
i bet it wont look that bad on DVD.
I was very impressed with the autumnal light given to the production. I thought it looked lvoely.
It was occasionally a bit tricky to follow, but it's a story that's completely new to me. I have recently read last week's (Mrs McGinty's Dead) and next week's (Third Girl ... a rubbish book very clearly set in late 50s/early 60s, unlike Poirot on TV).
I wondered how
Am I right that
If so, that seems a bit of a cheat, as the audience wasn't given the chance to hear much of what Mrs Brittas was saying.
Good fun, all in all, but a relatively minor story. I'll agree that I am enjoying these more than last series. Some of the more recent ones have seemed a bit serious and dour (Taken at the Flood had huge liberties taken with the story, which did not win me over), but they're beginning to regain some of the sense of fun they used to have, back in the glory days of Miss Lemon, hummable theme music and art deco buildings.
And I was shocked to discover
Great episode
Me and the wife watched this last night, and when the final adverts came on (and just before the murderer was unmasked) the wife says "So, you know who did it yet then?"
I had thought the only person who COULD be Angel (a young girl from the earlier description) was the secratary, however - maybe from watching too much Jonathon Creek - I discounted that possibility because it was too obvious. I opted instead for Mrs. Rich, because she had seemed suspicious for a few scenes.
Of course it turns out my original hunch was right, and also Mrs. Rich was the one who wounded the other person!
Next week I'll go along with my gut instinct!
Yeah they did a much better job of keeping the murder's identity a secret in the TV adaption than Agatha did! I find that her later books don't quite match the ingenuity of her earlier ones...
Oh dear... I think I should have kept my mouth shut now!
Yep, that perked me up rather, especially since I like his Lucifer Box novels. He's a fine writer (c.f. his Dr. Who episodes) but I did want a bit more comedy or surrealism from it. Hey ho.
Also yay, love Anton Lesser, less keen on his wig though. I liked how Shaista's (sorry Princess Shaista's)
Does anyone know how you can tell a persons age by their knees, the only thing I can think of is that she wasn't moisturising enough.
Whoever mentioned the vaseline over the lens: how annoying, why does it all have to be in soft focus, dammit give me some sharp edges!
I am a keen ITV3'er and I do watch the old Poirot's and to be honest, they knock spots off these newer ones. Lot's of Japp and Miss Lemon (yay!), no soft focus and they allow time for Poirot's eccentricities to be explored, often for comic effect and there's less: "oh look it's that guy/girl, from that thing! You know, that programme with that woman/man/dog, he/she did it in that one too, bet he/she did it in this one as well." I'm nearly always proved right.
We Sky+d this yest & watched tonight, we were doing exactly that all the way through I had to laugh;
Oh it's Harriet from that detective programme - wot was it?
Oh it's Cho Chan!
Oh it's that Natasha thingy woman from Vanity Fair/Spooks!
Oh it's that blonde woman from Candleford/ S&S!
Oh look is n't she/he a stock actor? What have we seen them in???
Finally oh my god it's Billy Piper's looky-likey :eek:.
I wondered more than once if she was Billy Piper's little sister. Looks like her, same facial features and same voice. Anybody know?
I think you must be thinking of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories such as Gaudy Night filmed with Harriet Walter and Edward Petherbridge which were repeated fairly recently on ITV3.
On that topic my husband did make a flippant comment that the story clearly should have had Lord Peter in it - apropos of ITV's parachuting Miss Marple into too many non-Marple stories:rolleyes:
Incredibly they actually filmed these last two in HD and shooting them through smog totally destroys the point of doing that and the extra money they paid to do it.
What on Earth is up with producers these days when they are in droves adding such pathetic effects to impress their arty friends and completely forgetting that viewers will be distracted by their antics. And it does not make the viewing more enjoyable - often the reverse.
Someone wants to get a grip over this trend.
I looked up the actress (Jo Woodcock) but can find no tie to Billy at all (I thought she may be some relation - cousin or something).
you saw how bad it was bad in hd as well, the other have was moaning that his eyesight was going fuzzy until we realised that it was supposed to be like that