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Dec. 19th, 2013 01:02 pm
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So, today's my last day of work for the year and of course I discover a massive problem first thing this morning. I just. What? I don't have time to fix it completely and can't trust the folks I have left here to get it done, so working whilst on holiday! Woo! May as well post to LJ!
I was thinking about this last night. A few weeks ago, I watched the first season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on Netflix, and fell in love. Essie Davis as flapper Phryne Fisher is perfection and the stories are well told and the set design and costumes are fantastic. [At the time, I was also rewatching David Suchet as Poirot mysteries as well, so very much into the 1920's/1930's and it was just perfect.] I then discovered that the Miss Fisher mysteries are books! Lovely, lovely books! So I got the first few out of from the library and devoured them whole because they're fairly short but absolutely delicious. The character of Phryne really is wonderful. She's smart and unapologetically sexual and lives her life exactly as she wants and with so much style and sophistication. She's a really interesting character who shoots people who deserve it and sometimes does some appalling things but in the name of justice and really, how often do you see that of a woman character? Male characters do terrible things and are cheered on but the ladies are busy swooning or being compassionate or whatever. She's not cold--she's touched by the murders and other crimes she sees but there's no sentimentality in her (emotion yes). I don't know. I really love her as a character and Kerry Greenwood as an author for bringing here, and I've been thinking that I should share that for days. So now I have. The books are better than the show but both are really good and different enough that it doesn't feel redundant (or I'm not thinking, "they did it better in the book" whilst watching--the books are better but the show has it's own appeal).
I suppose this means I ought to go get as much work done now as possible.
I was thinking about this last night. A few weeks ago, I watched the first season of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on Netflix, and fell in love. Essie Davis as flapper Phryne Fisher is perfection and the stories are well told and the set design and costumes are fantastic. [At the time, I was also rewatching David Suchet as Poirot mysteries as well, so very much into the 1920's/1930's and it was just perfect.] I then discovered that the Miss Fisher mysteries are books! Lovely, lovely books! So I got the first few out of from the library and devoured them whole because they're fairly short but absolutely delicious. The character of Phryne really is wonderful. She's smart and unapologetically sexual and lives her life exactly as she wants and with so much style and sophistication. She's a really interesting character who shoots people who deserve it and sometimes does some appalling things but in the name of justice and really, how often do you see that of a woman character? Male characters do terrible things and are cheered on but the ladies are busy swooning or being compassionate or whatever. She's not cold--she's touched by the murders and other crimes she sees but there's no sentimentality in her (emotion yes). I don't know. I really love her as a character and Kerry Greenwood as an author for bringing here, and I've been thinking that I should share that for days. So now I have. The books are better than the show but both are really good and different enough that it doesn't feel redundant (or I'm not thinking, "they did it better in the book" whilst watching--the books are better but the show has it's own appeal).
I suppose this means I ought to go get as much work done now as possible.