{"id":481,"date":"2004-07-24T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T23:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/24\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:10:13","slug":"meitantei-poirot-to-marple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/24\/meitantei-poirot-to-marple\/","title":{"rendered":"Meitantei Poirot to Marple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The first episode dramatises the short story &#8220;The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan&#8221;.  And, as far as the essentials go, it does an excellent job of sticking to the script Christie has provided.  Both Hastings and Poirot behave ICly, though given the time constraints, not as much is made of Poirot&#8217;s mania for order and cleanliness as it is in the story (it explains why he notices a vital clue which Hastings, of course, does not realize the significance of.)  Much of the extraneous dialogue and action is cut, leaving the mystery a bit adrift from Poirot&#8217;s world and causing the secondary characters to be even more flat than they are in the original story.  But, given that the Poirot series with David Suchet (the standard from which all other Poirot dramatisations should really be judged, IMHO) took an hour with a short story, this is not surprising and understandable.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some additions and minor changes even in this first episode, the merit of which I&#8217;m yet undecided upon.  A (nosy, rebellious, angsty) schoolgirl, Mabel West (which the subtitlers decided to spell as &#8216;Maybelle&#8217;, a choice I think very stupid) has been introduced.  Her ties with the canon are through her father, novelist Raymond West, who is a real Christie character &#8212; Jane Marple&#8217;s nephew.  There was no sign of Joyce\/Joan, so possibly she is dead, or was simply off camera for this episode.  Raymond, instead of being the edgy modern novelist of the canon, is now a mystery writer.  And for some unknown reason, the city girl Mabel wanders about with a duck in a basket.  Her father understandably disapproves.<\/p>\n<p>So far I give it an 8\/10. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode dramatises the short story &#8220;The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan&#8221;. And, as far as the essentials go, it does an excellent job of sticking to the script Christie has provided. Both Hastings and Poirot behave ICly, though given the time constraints, not as much is made of Poirot&#8217;s mania for order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}