According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. All told it does the norms, and provides a familiar enough frame for the lazy viewer such as I to fall into, however it didn't draw me in, nor really spark with mystery or intrigue – something not helped one bit by the direction, which really didn't fit in the series.Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. Gould is a big name but seems unsure of his character and unable to really sell it D'Arcy, Eve, Farrell, and others are fine but nothing great – none of them really hooking me into the episode. Suchet himself is as good as he generally is in this role, however the supporting cast fare better on paper than in reality. The cast are maybe part of this as they are surprisingly so-so. The mystery itself I found lacking in urgency and, in some ways, clarity perhaps this was just me not following it, but it was not one that really drew me in as many other episodes have done.
Here we have too many odd camera angles, a bit too much swapping of focal points, and a generally busier presentation that I would have liked the editing adds to this feeling and I did spend much of the episode wondering if all of season 10 will play out like this – and also thinking about what other shows may have influenced this sudden change in approach (some others here reference NYPD Blue and the like, and to be fair there may be something in that). I shouldn't really be talking about the presentation before the content, but I did find it to be too different from the style that I have come to prefer. The main impact for me was that the very nicely staged and presented episode of The Hollow, made the more frantic direction of Blue Train strike me as odd and rather alienating. This opening episode perhaps did not sit well with me because I did not give it those 15 or so months between episodes, but rather only a day or so after finishing season 9, I watched this one. Boxsetting the series as I am, it is odd to think of it being so fragmented like this, but this was a time when it became more of event-television for ITV. Screening well over a year since the previous episode (The Hollow), Mystery of the Blue Train was the New Year offering that opens season 10 ahead of the remaining episodes all coming at the end of Q2 and start of Q3 in 2006.
0 kommentar(er)
