...I say "tried" to watch it, because I occasionally got embarrassed and turned over to Poirot on ITV3. Ironically, it was "Cat Among the Pigeons", the episode of Poirot written by Mark Gatiss. (Sort-of-double-irony: it's perhaps the least successful feature-length episode, but on this occasion, it's not Gatiss' fault. The structure of Christie's original makes it hugely unsuitable for ITV. Mind you, it might not have been a great idea to hire Gatiss for the story that requires a convincing boy-meets-girl romance at its heart. There's no massive alien parasite that eats them at the end, for one thing.)
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Footnote to the Below
Just in case you wondered...
...I say "tried" to watch it, because I occasionally got embarrassed and turned over to Poirot on ITV3. Ironically, it was "Cat Among the Pigeons", the episode of Poirot written by Mark Gatiss. (Sort-of-double-irony: it's perhaps the least successful feature-length episode, but on this occasion, it's not Gatiss' fault. The structure of Christie's original makes it hugely unsuitable for ITV. Mind you, it might not have been a great idea to hire Gatiss for the story that requires a convincing boy-meets-girl romance at its heart. There's no massive alien parasite that eats them at the end, for one thing.)
...I say "tried" to watch it, because I occasionally got embarrassed and turned over to Poirot on ITV3. Ironically, it was "Cat Among the Pigeons", the episode of Poirot written by Mark Gatiss. (Sort-of-double-irony: it's perhaps the least successful feature-length episode, but on this occasion, it's not Gatiss' fault. The structure of Christie's original makes it hugely unsuitable for ITV. Mind you, it might not have been a great idea to hire Gatiss for the story that requires a convincing boy-meets-girl romance at its heart. There's no massive alien parasite that eats them at the end, for one thing.)
