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Sep. 30th, 2014 08:07 pmI have been rewatching Poirot. I watched this on Mystery! with my family when I was a kid, but haven't seen most of them since. Which means that I don't really remember them--they don't even look familiar--but I always know exactly how the crime was committed. It's like being a genius! I watch it and am like, a-ha! The oyster shells in the garden! That is super important!
Three things, though:
- Even though some episodes are set in 1935 and some in 1917, none of the characters change age at all. Poirot is middle-aged forever. He was born middle-aged.
- When I was editing mysteries, I always read them at least twice. Once to make sure the mystery made sense as the clues were unfolding, and then again to make sure that, now knowing what happened, the killer's actions made sense from their perspective throughout the book.
Agatha Christie fails this second test SPECTACULARLY. OMG. Was there ever a murder so asininely conceived as the one in Death on the Nile? No one would ever kill someone that way. They'd just shove them off the back of the boat when no one was looking.
- I miss Diana Rigg's introductions. *sadface*
Three things, though:
- Even though some episodes are set in 1935 and some in 1917, none of the characters change age at all. Poirot is middle-aged forever. He was born middle-aged.
- When I was editing mysteries, I always read them at least twice. Once to make sure the mystery made sense as the clues were unfolding, and then again to make sure that, now knowing what happened, the killer's actions made sense from their perspective throughout the book.
Agatha Christie fails this second test SPECTACULARLY. OMG. Was there ever a murder so asininely conceived as the one in Death on the Nile? No one would ever kill someone that way. They'd just shove them off the back of the boat when no one was looking.
- I miss Diana Rigg's introductions. *sadface*