Who would you rather shag, marry, or kill?

  • Captain Hastings
  • Detective Poirot
  • Inspector Japp
  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    27 days ago

    You have to kill Poirot. Anyone else and you’d have him solving the murder.

    Probably best to marry Hastings. He’s the honourable sort, didn’t come out of the war too shell shocked and just wants companionship. Plus he proposed to a lady in one episode so he’s clearly ready. She turned him down but it did cheer her right up to be asked.

    And Japp has a moustache…

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      8·
      27 days ago

      Hastings is loyal to whoever is paying him attention. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a murderer say something along the lines “I killed him because he looked at me funny”, with Hastings then nodding sympathetically and adding “well naturally, anyone would”

      Plus the moment any skirt walks into the room, it’s like his eyes become dinner plates. I think you’d have a difficult marriage with him

  • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    Topic aside, is this show the zenith of period adaptation? I really think it might be. Ignoring that its tone went off the rails a little with series 9, they filmed almost every Poirot story and studiously crammed them into a chronological order with its own internal logic, and every set, costume, hairstyle, dialog choice, prop, and setting was almost perfectly chosen so that they truly feel natural in the story and for the actors. I guess it shouldn’t be high praise that, for example, actors are put into period-accurate clothes which actually fit them, but we all know it’s far from typical.