Torrent miss marple 2009 series#

McKenzie so far seems like a happy compromise. As awful as her adaptations were, they made ITV a lot of money and they'd have been quite happy to carry on.

Torrent miss marple 2009 series#

Incidentally McEwan broke her hip between series and as such had to be written out. In By The Pricking of My Thumbs, Tuppence becomes an ageing lush and Tommy is a bullying prig rather than the happily married couple they are. Then the forcing of her into novels where she doesn't belong at the expense of other characters. The plot changes to the existing Marple novels were horrendous - Nemesis bears almost no relation to the original novel other than the bus tour, Betrams Hotel now has Nazi hunters and the change of killer in Body in the Library is just stupid. McEwan also overdid the twinkling and just wasn't helped by the awful scripting. In one story another character actually says that she goes around solving mysteries - which is total rot. The problem with the McEwan version was that she became a detective.

She stands by while Clotilde Bradbury Scott drinks her poisoned drink and shows no regret. Mr Rafiel calls her Nemesis and she is totally ruthless in her outlook. She was from a bygone era and believed completely in the existence of evil. Look at the way she's quietly in the background of almost every scene in At Bertams Hotel - a terribly dificult novel to adapt as Marple is hardly involved in the action until the end. Then she would turn on them with a mind like a steel trap. She came over as timid and fluffy so people were never on their guard with her. The whole point about Miss Marple is that no-one in authority ever took her seriously at first so she could sit in the background, knitting and observing everything that went on. Fun, entertaining, but not the proper Dr. They're like Peter Cushing in the 1960s Dr Who movies. Margaret Rutherford played Margaret Rutherford, not Marple - which is fine, but those movies are not Miss Marple.