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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
edited September 2012 in General Chat
I have the unfortunate feeling that Season Fourteen will be the end of it. I just watched Murder on the Orient Express, and I thought that David Suchet’s acting was terrific in this. You actually question his loyalties to the law in the end, and you don’t know whether he is asking for God’s forgiveness or he is praying for their souls. Either way, this is a magnificent series, an amazing actor, and a movie worthy of an Academy Award. Albert Finney wasn’t as good, Peter Ustinov tried, but Suchet really nailed it.

Aside from that, talk about anything else involving Poirot and his little grey cells.

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  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2012
    The next seires will be the last one its been confermed there filming the last books.

    ITV are to produce the final season of Poirot in 2012[4]:
    There are four novels:
    and a collection of 12 related short stories:
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    I’m not watching Curtain. I won’t be able to go through it.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    I’m not watching Curtain. I won’t be able to go through it.

    Ik what you mean! The book was hard enough to finish.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited September 2012
    Dig down, I think we've already got a "Poirot" thread.
  • fleskflesk
    edited September 2012
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    Dig down, I think we've already got a "Poirot" thread.

    There is the Poirot Revival Thread, but you killed it months ago.
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    I have the unfortunate feeling that Season Fourteen will be the end of it.
    Yep, as has been mentioned before, the next series will be the last. Which is just as well, since they've pretty much run out of stories to adapt.
    I just watched Murder on the Orient Express, and I thought that David Suchet’s acting was terrific in this. You actually question his loyalties to the law in the end, and you don’t know whether he is asking for God’s forgiveness or he is praying for their souls.
    I think he was praying for forgiveness, since it looked like he had a really hard time accepting the administration of justice by non-representatives of the law.

    In any case, I liked the earlier, more light-hearted episodes better (also because of the Japp, Miss Lemon, and Hastings gang, and Hastings is coming back for Curtain, which should be reason enough to watch it despite sentimentalities :)). While the latter episodes are acted out quite well, they tend to depart a lot from the source material. That's not always bad, but sometimes they just go overboard with it.
    Suchet really nailed it.
    David Suchet is Poirot. Others merely play him.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited September 2012
    flesk wrote: »
    There is the Poirot Revival Thread

    Thanks, I didn't have time to search for it this morning.
    but you killed it months ago.

    Killed? That's a bit harsh. Just because I was the last person to post, I killed it?!
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    Killed? That's a bit harsh. Just because I was the last person to post, I killed it?!
    Mais oui. Do you not see that all the evidence points into that direction? The stain on the carpet, the smudge on the "Submit Reply" button, the torn train ticket... ah yes, it was all clever, a bit too clever. You thought you could outsmart Poirot, to do him one better, hein?

    Ma foi, you should know by now that there is no fooling Poirot! No pulling of the leg, as you say. No, no, thirty-six times no! There is but always one winner: the little grey cells.
  • fleskflesk
    edited September 2012
    FitzoliverJ wrote: »
    Killed? That's a bit harsh. Just because I was the last person to post, I killed it?!

    It was meant facetiously, but sorry if I offended you. You've got to admit the evidence against you is overwhelming though.
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    Their adaptation of The ABC Murders is a king compared to the shitfest that was The Alphabet Murders.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited September 2012
    flesk wrote: »
    It was meant facetiously, but sorry if I offended you. You've got to admit the evidence against you is overwhelming though.
    It's funny... it's normally me who kills threads. Watch!
  • Edward VanHelgenEdward VanHelgen
    edited September 2012
    Hey, great thread! I'm a huge fan of Poirot as well as Sherlock Holmes Granada TV series. Those are just classics.

    However, I must admit I've hesitated to watch later Poirot seasons, you know, those without Inspector Japp, Hastings and wonderful Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon. Am I missing much?
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    Their adaptation of The ABC Murders is a king compared to the shitfest that was The Alphabet Murders.
    I've never seen The Alphabet Murders, but The ABC Murders happens to be my favourite Poirot episode, closely followed by Wasps' Nest.
    Edward VanHelgen wrote: »
    However, I must admit I've hesitated to watch later Poirot seasons, you know, those without Inspector Japp, Hastings and wonderful Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon. Am I missing much?
    As much as I like the earlier seasons, there are some real gems to be found in the latter seasons as well, such as Five Little Pigs, one of my personal favourites. I also like the episodes with Ariadne Oliver, since those bring back a bit of that Poirot/sidekick dynamic from the earlier episodes.
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2012
    Haggis wrote: »
    I also like the episodes with Ariadne Oliver, since those bring back a bit of that Poirot/sidekick dynamic from the earlier episodes.

    Mrs McGinty's Dead is the best of the Ariadne Oliver ones.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXB-ZYF7BVg
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    Haha, yes, and that's a fabulous scene. "You can't make him a pansy!"
  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited September 2012
    Anyone see the ITV special on Sleuths with the Poirot special today they talked about Curtain.
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    No!!! TAKE IT AWAY! POIROT CAN’T DIE!
  • RibsRibs
    edited September 2012
    I like Poirot! I watched Orient Express a month ago, and really enjoyed it, despite the obvious differences. I liked seeing the fellow who plays Dr. Abbey on Downton Abbey in it as well.
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    To be honest though, I preferred Peter Ustinov’s version of Death on the Nile to David Suchet’s.
  • FitzoliverJFitzoliverJ
    edited September 2012
    Sad news, but BBC Radio's Hercule Poirot - John Moffat, whom personally I think was the best Poirot of all - has died two weeks short of his 90th birthday, and a matter of days before the BBC had scheduled "This Happy Breed" to celebrate his birthday

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/sep/16/john-moffatt?newsfeed=true

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jwmf


    (The BBC radio series shared Philip Jackson's Inspector Japp with ITV)
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    How sad... I actually didn't know he was so old. I enjoyed listening to him on the Poirot radio dramas (although I still think David Suchet is the best Poirot).
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    I gotta say, I’m very disappointed in the video game adaptation of Evil Under The Sun. I can honestly say that I didn’t care for playing as Poirot.
  • HaggisHaggis
    edited September 2012
    Yeah, I didn't like it much either. In fact, all the Agatha Christie adventure games are... pretty bad. They got the atmosphere down rather well, but the design... you'll just be walking to and fro solving silly puzzles all the time.

    Actually, the one Poirot game I played that I found reasonably enjoyable was Peril at End House, and that's a hidden object game...
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    Haggis wrote: »
    Yeah, I didn't like it much either. In fact, all the Agatha Christie adventure games are... pretty bad. They got the atmosphere down rather well, but the design... you'll just be walking to and fro solving silly puzzles all the time.

    Actually, the one Poirot game I played that I found reasonably enjoyable was Peril at End House, and that's a hidden object game...

    Actually, I found And Then There Were None to be quite enjoyable. Murder on the Orient Express was just meh.
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