#agatha christie's marple

[leupagus]

Guys I Might Have Three Nickels

I've been watching "Agatha Christie's Marple" for the past few days and it's pretty good! Marple adaptations all tend to have a better caliber of actors than a lot of bog-standard mystery shows (looking at you, "Madame Blanc"), and while Joan Hickson's Marple is right up there with David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes as "literally can never be beaten, these are the best anyone's done it," both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie do a fantastic job as Miss Marple.

Then I got to "The Secret of Chimneys," Season 5 episode 2

and guys

Guys

So there's a murder of a viscount, like there is, and this detective Finch rolls up and immediately spots Miss Marple (in her NIGHTIE! standing at the window like some kind of hussy, honestly Jane) and doffs his cap to her with that little smile that makes you go, "huh."

At this point I've watched a couple dozen Miss Marple episodes where she goes through detectives like wildfire and this guy's supposed to be a "*guru*" so I'm expecting some battle of the egos or something and like, Stephen Dillane is great! But bleh, I might have to skip this one.

Then my dude asks Miss Marple to SHOW HIM THE BODY, with a pleased little smile at her as she goes "uhhhhhhhh but my knitting?" (He even does that thing where you use someone's honorific and wait for them to give you their name, and that's when I was like "ohhh this bitch knows exactly who she is.") What follows is what I can only describe as a meet-cute in the secret passageway where the viscount was shot (and in fact the body is STILL THERE) and where Miss Marple literally asks the police equivalent of "is there a Mrs Finch" and he looks at her like this:

At which point I'm like "ohhh my dude not only knows who she is, he deliberately came here without a sergeant so he could draft her," and sure enough he just starts...handing her pieces of evidence like "hey babe can you decipher this note for me thanks love you" while Miss Marple is like, "this approval and camaraderie coming from a cop... not sure if want."

Next is a series of romantic strolls through the gardens while they discuss murder, during which Finch reveals his undying love I mean his research into Miss Marple and the "dozen case files" of her previous exploits that he's collected like some deranged fanboy. Miss Marple responds to this by BLUSHING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL and stammering about how pish tosh it's nothing really, and I couldn't find a gif of it but he's staring at her like this:

Yeah I bet u r tempted

He also makes a half-hearted attempt at negging her "amateur sleuth" status, only to then immediately assure her that he makes like, so much money being a big fancy detective and can keep her in all the yarn and garden seed she could ever desire.

There's also a late-night tryst at the compost pile right after Finch has been (mildly) poisoned and Miss Marple is like "men are so weak" as she roots through the garbage for clues.

Not how he wanted their first date to go D:

The next morning there's another murder which: bummer, but also allows the two of them to read love letters together and for Finch to give Miss Marple the following look as she explains how secret assignations among lovers can "quicken the ardor":

Miss Marple then goes onto solve the murders and btw hands over the priceless diamond that's been literally missing for two literal decades that she found in her spare time. The entire scene features Finch looking at her like this:

After the dust settles, Finch and Miss Marple have a lovely moment where he calls himself "another one of your casualties," then super casually mentions that he's probably going to have to go on assignment to use the diamond in a daring international espionage case and I can't decide if he's asking Miss Marple to go with him or simply trying to show her that he is cool and smart and would make an excellent wife, but either way the episode ends with her turning him down and Jane, we need to talk about your priorities.

Anyway I've already written 2K about the subsequent 10-year epistolary romance these two have following this episode because I make poor choices.

#agatha christie's marple #miss marple #julia mckenzie #stephen dillane #special thanks to introvertedpedant for their exceptional gifs #anyway yeah I fully did the 'haha what if I jokingly shipped them' and then 30 minutes later was like 'oh no' #miss marple rhymes with parple #seriously though what's the explanation for these choice #other than dillane reading through the script and saying to mckenzie #'ok so I'm gonna play him like SO SO down bad for you is that cool' #and mckenzie saying 'you jump I jump jack'

[isabelleneville]

@perioddramasource: PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Seven: Free Day ~ Favourite Period Drama Actress - NATALIE DORMER

Selected Filmography:

Casanova - Victoria Donato

The Tudors - Anne Boleyn, Marquess of Pembroke, later, Queen of England

Agatha Christie's Marple - Moira Nicholson

W.E. - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duchess of York, later, Queen of England

Rush - Gemma

The Scandalous Lady W - Seymour Worsley, Lady Worsley,

Picnic at the Hanging Rock - Hester Appleyard

The Professor and the Madman - Eliza Merrett

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels - Magda, pictured as one of her aliases Elsa Branson

#perioddramaweek2023 #perioddramaedit #casanova #the tudors #agatha christie's marple #w.e. #rush #the scandalous lady w #picnic at the hanging rock #the professor and the madman #penny dreadful: city of angels #my edits #ndormeredit #Natalie Dormer #victoria donato #anne boleyn #moira nicholson #elizabeth bowes lyon #gemma #seymour worsley #hester appleyard #eliza merrett #magda #elsa branson

[partywithponies]

Miss Marple in ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple is Dictor Who coded.

Evidence:

Regenerated: even though seasons 1-3 and seasons 4-6 are all the same show, Geraldine McEwan!Marple and Julia McKenzie!Marple clearly have different mannerisms and slightly different personalities (Geraldine!Marple is a lot more mischievous and cheeky and giggly and by Geraldine's own admission enjoys flirting with younger men, Julia!Marple is a lot more weary and motherly and gentle and disapproving of people's nonsense)

Always just shows up places and things just happen to happen wherever she goes

Is incurably nosy and curious

Always portrayed as very kind and a friend to the young main characters of the episode, yet is always portrayed as somehow separate from everyone else: has almost no-one who's on her own level, and even when an episode has a happy ending, that almost always involes Marple's younger friends settling down into a normal happy life with their family, while Marple herself is left alone watching on from a distance, before she leaves again for her next adventure

#agatha christie's marple

[silverfoxstole]

Some scans from TV magazines for Marple: Sleeping Murder (2006) that I came across amongst my photos the other day.

#i have actually only seen this once when it was first broadcast #and i'm afraid i nearly died of second-hand embarrassment #sorry paul #paul mcgann #martin kemp #nickolas grace #dawn french #sarah parrish #agatha christie's marple #sleeping murder

[jtownraindancer]

Oh...

Oh no; I wasn't ready-

#agatha christie's marple #burn gorman #he's just a baby #jacko argyle #man i need a tag for burn now fuck #i cannot BELIEVE there is NOTHING about him on here #ordeal by innocence

[hanitje]

Miss Jane Marple

#Agatha Christie #Miss Marple #Agatha Christie's Marple #Geraldine McEwan #Agatha Christine's Miss Marple #Jane Marple

[perioddramasource]

Geraldine McEwan as Jane Marple in AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE (2004 - 2013) Season 1, Episode 2: Murder at the Vicarage

#agatha christie's marple #geraldine mcewan #ours #*gifs #kraina #by kraina #perioddramaedit #periodedit #marpleedit #agathachristieedit #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #gifshistorical #periodedits #userspot #comfortblr #femalegifsource #femalecharacters #dailytvwomen #userkayles

[shae-la-hyene]

Best part of watching Miss Marple is how lovely and cute she is. You'd think as a detective protagonist she'd be nosy and suspicious and all. But she's lovely and cute and a lot of people love her profundly

Enough cold misanthrope detectives. Give me more old women who kiss their young friends on the forehead and say 'night night'

#agatha christie's marple #miss marple #jane marple #also wow what a hell of a casting !

[thecannibalroyal]

My Shitty Gifs Part 4/?

Jason Flemyng as Lawrence Redding - Agatha Christie's Marple (S1E02 2004)

An Agatha Christie classic, The Murder at the Vicarage was my introduction to the 2004 reboot of the Marple television series and launched me into reading the books as well! I will say this episode was a horrible reminder that capital punishment was not abolished in England until 1969 and the Marple series does not hold back from showing the fates of its villains.

#jason flemyng #lawrence redding #agatha christie #miss marple #agatha christie's marple #2004 #i love his smile so much #my shitty gifs #my gifs

[moondrama]

Agatha Christie's Marple (2007) | At Bertram's Hotel

#agatha christie #miss marple #agatha christie's marple #at Bertram's Hotel #geraldine mcewan

[fortesque]

#agatha christie's marple #marpleedit #agathachristieedit #towards zero #miss marple

[leupagus]

I know I've been yelling about this for the past three days but guys this is where Inspector Finch shows up and it's some goddamn Romeo and Juliet bullshit complete with romantic strings, what the FUCK was I supposed to think.

#thanks be to thingswithwings #who found this dusty old (and TRUNCATED! THEY TOOK OUT SOME OF THE FLIRTING!!! SCANDAL!) version of the episode #and clipped this scene for me #because the last time I did any video stuff was literally 10 years ago #miss marple #agatha christie's marple #the secret of chimneys #miss marple rhymes with parple #also shoutout to Bundle for the Julian of Norwich joke that bitch is so my type

[sosoffete]

“Now remember your own duty, Tiddler” “Yes sir” “So for God’s sake don’t sit there with your mouth open like a beached cod”

#hannah waddingham #agatha christie #agatha christie's marple #lola brewster #FUCKING HOT #I think im having a stroke #i lost all abilities to think and speak #and yes my mouth was open like a fucking beached cod because HOW CAN I NOT FUCKING BREAK MY JAW #quality sucks but I couldn't do much better than this

[partywithponies]

Geraldine McEwan saying in an interview that Miss Marple is "quite flirtatious" and "likes younger men" has changed the way I view the entire character. So true. Get it Jane. Let Miss Marple have her toyboys.

#miss marple #agatha christie's marple #agatha christie #geraldine mcewan

[delannoie]

#Agatha Christie's Marple #Aneurin Barnard #Dan Stevens #robbie hayman #Michael Faber #gay love #gay pride #pride month #pride month 2023 #rare ship #my art

[jtownraindancer]

#GUYS GUESS WHAT I JUST LEARNT HOW TO DO!!! #burn gorman #jacko argyle #agatha christie's marple #ordeal by innocence #man i need a tag for burn now fuck #no you don't understand i am quite literally mesmerised #inspector huish #reece shearsmith #my gifs