And Then there Were None

I am seriously in lust with Aiden Turner.... Poldark and now Mr.Lombard...
it's more than flesh and blood can stand!

Stansgran - are you visualising David Suchet just about wearing a towel and propping himself suggestively against a door post

I think I read the book when I was about 15 so, er, over 30 years ago and I can't remember the ending.
I'm a bit disappointed that it wasn't filmed on Burgh Island and the art deco hotel there, where I believe Agatha Christie wrote it. But of course, the mainland is accessible by foot from Burgh Island at low tide which would ruin the plot!

Anya did you have to say that!?

Well, a tense and satisfying (?) finale to the series, I thought. I've read most of Agatha Christie's books, but it was a long time ago, and although I had an inkling I deliberately didn't try to remember the ending.

(I do wish the BBC would stop warning us that we might find some scenes 'upsetting' prior to all their dramas though.)

Yes I enjoyed it. I think that the director probably played fast and loose with the dialogue as it lost its 30s feel somehow. Although saying that I did think it was a good production.

Well I was mightily upset when Poldark got shot!

roseq I thought Burgh Island would have been a good location (love that place) but not as bright as you to think it wouldn't work due to the low tides
I was surprised by the ending, I was convinced there was an unknown party on the island.

I'm not sure which locations were used; was the jetty Hartland Point? DH kept saying 'I should know which beach that is'!
Definitely not Devon, I think it was North Cornwall

Nearly gave up on the first night as it seemed very slow, but then I would have missed the towel moment Definitely picked up over the next two nights and even DH stayed with it so it must have been good!

I just googled it and it was South Cornwall! - Kynance and Mullion Coves and it was Mullion Harbour apparently (not Hartland)

I bloody well knew it was gonna be the judge. self satisfied

Is it just me who finds that (Charles) "Dance" guy really creepy?

He's so good at being bad!

I read the book yonks ago, but adaptations can be so different. I'd worked it out it had to be someone who died in a way that could be faked, so that meant the judge or the maid. Out of those two, the judge was most likely because of his age, although I thought he'd explain his connection to all the people who'd been killed by each of the other guests.

I thought it fizzled out in the last episode tbh.

Much appreciated Poldark - he made a lovely vampire before his time in Cornwall!

Well-that was as clear as mud.

Nice clever ending, but I still don't get what the judge's motive was.

gettingonabit As I guessed earlier in the thread I think the judge was effectively punishing those that he believed had escaped justice the first time around.

There was a clue in the dialogue -blink and you would have missed it - after finding the judge one of the character's said that he hadn't heard any gun shot.

I noticed that, but thought as there was a storm it was understandable. But by then I was convinced it was the maid as she'd inexplicably 'died in her sleep' - was she actually murdered?

Yes whitewave you're right. They speculated as to how this might have happened didn't they? Muffled with a towel etc.

Agatha Chrisie must be spinning in her grave. I enjoyed the production but it was the use of the F word that made it lose the 30s feel. I am not easily shocked. My all time favourite is The Sopranos. Would a gentleman use that word in mixed company in those times ? I think Damn would have been shocking then. Perhaps I should be in Pedants Corner!

You are easily shocked I agree!

The language was very modulated, with the men apologising for minor slip ups, or calling others to remember there was a 'lady' present ( even though she wasn't) at the beginning.

It was only when the tension, fear and suspicion built up that 'manners' were abandoned. Very realistically I thought.

I sat and sort of watched this with DD and DGD, but to be honest, it was so dark that I could hardly see what was going on and somehow the gothickisation of an improbable plot left me unengaged and by the third episode I sat on the settee with the other two, but read a book.

I didn't watch Poldark, so I had no eager anticipation, but to be honest, whichever the Poldark one was, I could see nobody in this cast to get excited about. Cardboard cutouts of cardboard characters made all the acting stereotyped and characterless as well, even though some of the actors are usually quite good.

Try turning up the brightness setting on your TV MOanica

It certainly was gloomy stuff. Can't say I really enjoyed it. Must admit that I preferred the ITV drama about the 'ghost hunter'. Beautifully done and looks like its setting up to be a series. If you missed it ,check it out on i player.

I think the trouble was (for me, anyway) that the characters weren't sufficiently well-established before they started to be bumped off, so you had no context for the crimes they had been involved in. I had no idea what the Judge's motive was (had to look it up) but I thought the "missing bullet" idea was clever (although the Judge "coming back to life was, for me, implausible).

Nice bit of entertainment, and Aiden Turner in a low slung towel is always going to be a nice diversion

Oh dear. Aiden Turner does nothing for me. He just looks a bit grumpy generally. Gratuitous nudity seems tacky -we'd complain quick enough if the female was standing around in her underwear for no particular reason. Has that actor no pride? Just being used to titivate?