#thelaboursofhercule

** MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD ABOUT ONE SCENE IN MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS MOVIE **

Hey there, Labours! *waves* Thank you for your ask! The Christieverse and all the Poirot adaptations gettingmore exposure because of the MOTOE movie is the beginning of a new Poirot era. The new Agatha Christie Cinematic Universe has begun, dvds of previous Poirot films are getting re-releases, and Christie books are coming out with new fancy covers and as limited editions. Fans that just got introduced toSuchet’s tv version are falling in love with him as predicted, and they’relooking into books and anime and other Christie tv series (I recommend the 2015 And ThenThere Were None mini series for starters). I’ve got a bunch of asks on thevery topic I need to reply today and tomorrow!

Poirot getting asked for help with a murder case on the Nilewas spoiled for me ahead of the movie via critics reviews. But that’s ok, muchof the film was spoiled for me, maybe 80%, and knowing of the referencebeforehand didn’t make my MOTOE watching experience any less exciting! Before I readabout the scene on several websites, I hadn’t expected Ken to include a reference to a sequel either but once word of the little tease got out, I couldn’t wait to see the scene for myself. And I thought it was well done. :)

It’s been speculatedKen will try to retcon the reference in the sequel because in the book,Poirot’s on holiday in Egypt when the murder happens, he doesn’t get summoned thereas per the reference in the MOTOE movie. Much like the set up in the MOTOE novel, in DOTN we first follow thecharacters on their journey - “the most romantic journey on earth” the steamer service is called - and learn what brought them to Egypt, before tragedystrikes again.

With Ken’s Poirot joining them after the murder has alreadyhappened, we don’t get that important set up, or we get one sans Poirot, which isfar less fun and would change the story drastically. I think Poirot should be there with the suspects before anything goes down. Because MOTOE was faithful to the book, people expect DOTN to bethe same, hence the speculation about Ken tweaking the reference in MOTOE a littleso the DOTN movie can follow canon as closely as possible after all. I don’t know if he’d just wave the reference away and have Poirot pretend there was no summons?

Someone suggested a retcon would not benecessary if the reference was to some other random crime on the Nile, but not THEfamous case. Poirot could go to Egypt as planned, solve this “urgent matter”, finallytake a deserved holiday, only to get involved in yet another mystery, thistime concerning a murder boat instead of a murder train! Poor cinnamon rollcan never put his feet up. Justlet him rest with his books and cakes! :D

I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all my new followers and to the ones I have followed. This past week I had the possible food poisoning, I was able to recover and eat properly again. My little grey cells were not working but found comfort in the little belgian/suchet & seeing all of your posts.

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Mercí! It was absolutely wonderful. Don’t get me wrong, Sir Ken is NOT Suchet but the film overall was beautiful and captured so much detail and the SCENERY– breathtaking.

“I’m sorry, the old laboursofhercule can’t come to the phone right now.”

“why?” 

“Oh, cause she’s dead!” 

Oh my gosh! Ha, you’re not weird that was such a cute message. I am so happy to share the love of Poirot with many others. Shoot, I’m probably MORE weird if I’m mentally married to the guy (David Suchet). I agree, and he would too..poirot is indeed the very best. Thanks for stopping by!

aw, how sweet. I appreciate that so much! I haven’t even had this blog long but people have already shown lots of love and I’m so touched at some of the people I’ve talked to already. I share the love of Poirot with many others but he (the character) is very broad for there is Finney, Ustinov, Molina, Branagh who have played “Poirot.” However, David Suchet will always in my heart, mind and soul be Poirot but even out of character I love & adore him so as an actor. I admire his work and thats one thing not a lot of the Poirotverse DO share is the love of our beloved Suchet. Don’t get me wrong, I always have an open mind to anything…I saw MOTOE with Branagh but I couldn’t and didn’t have the same emotions merely because I fell in love with David. 

Please, feel free to visit my blog anytime & send messages/asks. I love chatting with others but I just wish I had more to chat with, discuss our famous detective or just David Suchet fans in general.