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[QUOTE]Originally posted by sojourner: [QB] I think the woman who played Miss Marple in this new series left in the middle and another came on! But I wasn't too impressed with them--just seemed very unnecessary when we have the "definitve" versions. Only interest I have in seeing them is that a few "Marples" are actually Agatha Christie books that did not feature Miss Marple, turned into Marples. I'm esp interested in seeing Towards Zero, since I do like that book and never saw any sort of adaptation. Of course, so many Christie adaptations lose the flavor of the books terribly. The worst I can think of was a version of Ordeal by Innocence, another favorite book of mine. This version, starring Donald Sutherland and other names (Sarah Miles I think) was for me unwatchable because of its soundtrack. Oddly enough, by David Brubeck, but while I like Take Five & other Brubeck as well, here it was the most intrusive, loud, horrible soundtrack ever, and seemed completely inappropriate for the English coastal setting. I simply could not watch this, or rather, listen to it. The Suchet Poirots are very mixed by me, some good, some very irritating, with inexplicable changes to plot and flavor. Plus, they insist on resetting them in the 1930s even though some of the books were in the 1960s. Sometimes they are so Art Deco they border on silly (esp the triangle face hahaha). But there are some that I think were very good, esp ABC Murders (which of course also has a major RR tie-in!!! how could I forget?) and Sad Cypress. But they totally wrecked Cat Among the Pigeons, for instance, and Hickory Dickory Death, which keeps showing mice, it's soooooo annoying. Sorry to get so offtrack! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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