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Swoon, Post #4
Jan. 26th, 2024 04:06 pmI am zipping by with a fic-in-progress recommendation (which, as we know, is always a bit dangerous). But anyway!
I did not watch the Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series when it was running (2004 was the beginning with Geraldine McEwan; 2009 was when Julia McKenzie took over; it ended in 2013). Part of that is my own uninterest in Christie's main detectives, other than my own beloved Tommy and Tuppence; part of that is because I read about how the series shoehorned Miss Marple into a Tommy-and-Tuppence story, rendering Tuppence a heavy drinker to boot, and I was and am offended at the very idea.
However, Fan of Note Leupagus recently watched one of the latter episodes with Julia McKenzie, "The Secret of Chimneys" (which wasn't even a Marple story to begin with), and they were struck all of a heap by the performance of Stephen Dillane as Inspector Finch, police officer of the episode. Mr. Dillane (who's about 14 or 15 years younger than Julia McKenzie) 100% played Finch as a) Miss Marple's No 1 Fanboy, and b) head over heels almost at first sight; Ms. McKenzie played Marple as charmed and confused. Here is the first Tumblr post to summarize and illustrate this performance; here is a clip from the episode, wherein the Romance Coding is very, very strong.
So anyway Leupagus has begun an ongoing fic, the absolute ultimate in slow-burns because Miss Marple has an enormous blind spot when it comes to her own heart and Finch has his own issues and idolizes her besides. As of this posting Leupagus is at Chapter 11; new chapters drop fairly regularly, as in, almost every day. The fic is "For Which the First Was Made,", and if you like older folk in love and having less than zero idea how to deal with it, much less speak it to the beloved, here you go.
Happy weekend!
I did not watch the Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series when it was running (2004 was the beginning with Geraldine McEwan; 2009 was when Julia McKenzie took over; it ended in 2013). Part of that is my own uninterest in Christie's main detectives, other than my own beloved Tommy and Tuppence; part of that is because I read about how the series shoehorned Miss Marple into a Tommy-and-Tuppence story, rendering Tuppence a heavy drinker to boot, and I was and am offended at the very idea.
However, Fan of Note Leupagus recently watched one of the latter episodes with Julia McKenzie, "The Secret of Chimneys" (which wasn't even a Marple story to begin with), and they were struck all of a heap by the performance of Stephen Dillane as Inspector Finch, police officer of the episode. Mr. Dillane (who's about 14 or 15 years younger than Julia McKenzie) 100% played Finch as a) Miss Marple's No 1 Fanboy, and b) head over heels almost at first sight; Ms. McKenzie played Marple as charmed and confused. Here is the first Tumblr post to summarize and illustrate this performance; here is a clip from the episode, wherein the Romance Coding is very, very strong.
So anyway Leupagus has begun an ongoing fic, the absolute ultimate in slow-burns because Miss Marple has an enormous blind spot when it comes to her own heart and Finch has his own issues and idolizes her besides. As of this posting Leupagus is at Chapter 11; new chapters drop fairly regularly, as in, almost every day. The fic is "For Which the First Was Made,", and if you like older folk in love and having less than zero idea how to deal with it, much less speak it to the beloved, here you go.
Happy weekend!
