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[and then there were none] I actually haven't ever watched or read this so I'm checking out the 2015 miniseries
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Yeah honestly the title is like
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the big thing stopping me from just reading it
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Which isn't entirely fair but I can't make myself put it out of mind
taffy
they made a miniseries! interesting.
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that's good!
taffy
i've read the book and watched the movie. wonder if the miniseries ending is more accurate to the book
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Big problem so far that I've done to myself
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I imagine the miniseries, given the medium, is likely closer to the play's ending than the book's.
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the files I've acquired have no subtitles
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The play was adapted from the book by Christie herself, so, like, they're both good.
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The execution is just very different due to the nature of the differences between the two media.
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Oh, interesting!
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I honestly adore that Agatha Christie would change the endings for stage shows
taffy
gods i love the book though
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I think more authors should do that
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Once you're done, I'll be happy to talk about how the play ends.
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I actually read the play in English class before I read the book on my own time.
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Okay this is actually untenable, I can't understand the speakers
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ugh fuck it
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$4 on amazon
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Okay now I can keep track of these characters
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Vera Claythorne has been hired as an assistant/secretary
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Cutting between various people receiving letters from UN Owens
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A man in an empty recording booth
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"This is for a play in West End, you said? Am I going to be credited?"
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Puffs himself up before reading off "Ladies and Gentlemen. You have been charged with the following indictments."
taffy
sees the letter name subtle, agatha
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2015 really is the exact year I'd expect this to come out
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that weird early 10s sound mixing where character voices get overshadowed by background noise and music
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Mr. Narracott taking various people over to the island
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General MacArthur
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Justice Wargrave
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Phillip Lombard
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he was introduced speeding past General MacArthur for fun in classic reckless rich boy style
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and a man named Davis
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or what, I might have mixed up people
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There's another man Phillip sped past
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Maid and a Butler already on Soldier island
taffy
this does kind of do the danganronpa thing where everybody's got like, a Role or Aesthetic or Job to help keep them apart
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(there's a lot of ways this is similar to danganronpa actually)
taffy
but i have no idea how similar they look in the miniseries
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I was thinking more Umineko
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which definitely inspired from this
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could be, i haven't done the when they cry's yet
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big hole
big hole
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Man in White hasn't introduced himself
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Umineko is super inspired by And Then There Were None
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It is not subtle about it.
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Narracourt watches the people go into the mansion warily
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Tony Marston
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Judge Wargrave is here to meet Constance Culmington, who hasn't arrived
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Davis, like me, is writing down notes about the cast
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ahhhh there's the poem
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there's a lot of just intense visual direction in this
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You need to be absorbing a lot of silent storytelling and try to parse the meaning yourself
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Man in White trembling in his bed, possibly sick
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god some faces are already blending together
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-god Mr. Rogers the butler is just. aggressively mean to his wife
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Emily Brent is already here and sucks shit
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bullying Ethel the maid
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Davis practicing talking to the Judge in the mirror
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Ethel is crumbling to pieces trying to sound stern and forcefully treat Vera like a guest
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Even as Vera insists she's a secretary and part of the staff
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Man in White is Edward Armstrong
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Oh Lombard sucks shit
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Lombard and Tony Marston just being absolutely shitbags to everyone
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Clue definitely pulled from this dinner scene too
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Strangers trying to talk to each other
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god this food looks good
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god Lombard's vain but Marston is just obnoxious and aggressive
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oh Armstrong has ANGER issues
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So far in general the show is definitely very
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post-Nolan
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like its good for that era of edgy post-Nolan tv but
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I hate Emily Brent so much
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THERE IT IS
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the recording the Owens paid for
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time to tear into the whole cast
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The following indictments
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Dr. Edward George Armstrong, that you killed Louisa May Cleese
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Emily Caroline Brent, that you murdered Beatrice Taylor.
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William Henry Blore, that you did murder James Stephen Landor
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Vera Elizabeth Claythorne: that did you did murder Cyril Hamilton
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Phillip Lombard, that you did murder 21 men, members of an East African tribe.
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John Gordon MacArthur, that you did murder Henry Richmond
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Anthony James Marston, that you did murder John and Lucy Combes
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Lawrence John Wargrave, that you did murder Edward Seton
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Thomas and Ethel Rogers, that you did murder Jennifer Brady
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How do you plead?
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A record called Swan song
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Davis is truly William Henry Blore
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Detective Sergeant Blore
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That's just great presentation
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gotta give it up for Owens
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oh Rogers is outright abusive
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ohhhhhh jesus
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the presentation of this is great
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Mr. Rogers: "Mrs. Brady was a kind woman, a great employer. She left us... some money for us after her passing. But some people will say anything to hurt others."
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And as he says that
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it shows him smothering Mrs. Brady
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Marston claims he's never met the Combes
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Armstrong: "Louise was a surgical patient. It was... risky, but it wasn't my fault."
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god there's SO MANY NAMES to keep track of
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MacArthur praises of his fellow soldier Henry Richmond and resents the implication he could have killed him, how dare
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Justice Wargrave admits that he saw illegal evidence that influenced his decision to find Edward Seton guilty
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Blore insists Landor was a drunk who died unrelated to his arrest
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Vera is the only one copping to any kind of blame
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Tearfully regretting how she was unable to save Cyril
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jesus
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Phillip admits to killing 21 men
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without shame or remorse
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oh my GOD
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Brent: "You awful man. Men like you put our missionaries in danger"
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jesus CHRIST Marston
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"Oh maybe the Combes were those kids"
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"I lost my license after running them over"
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"What a nuisance"
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oh there he goes
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Marston dies QUICK
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oh this Armstrong flashback is a lot
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oh its a dream even
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walking in on his patient already a bloody corpse at his own hand
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Mrs. Rogers already dead
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god that's so aggressively british
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wife dead? Well, Mr Rogers needs to cook breakfast
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Stiff upper lip
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jesus Armstrong sucks
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"Don't unravel on us Mrs. Claythorne. Hysterical women are so boring."
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Everyone just the SCUMMIEST piece of shit
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Vera hallucinating and remembering a man named Hugo
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oh MacArthur's hallucinating too
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they're all crumbling and its only the first episode
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I'm trying to keep an eye out for a fake death bc like
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there just has to be
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Nonsense, the great witch U. N. Owen kills them all.
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god Armstrong pretends to be pleasant and he's probably one of the worst among them
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what a bunch of scumbags
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Lombard's motive for killing was diamonds
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Lombard: "I know what I am. I always knew it would catch up to me. And here it is"
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oh jesus
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ohhhh have fun, i have not seen the miniseries but have been wanting to watch it for quite some time. i love the book.
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MacArthur's motive: killing his friend bc Henry was sleeping with his wife
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Shockingly
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MacArthur is the one welcoming his death
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The noblest one after all
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.......huh
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I imagine
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this sexual tension between Emily Brent and her victim,
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wasn't in the original
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And that's her beating Beatrice the maid and sending her out to die after getting caught sleeping with a man
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oh my gosh. yeah that is new!
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Its not like, a cool sexual tension
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Its vaguely predatory
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yeah, i figured as much. i remember her crime.
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everybody's hallucinating
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-oh no that's
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that's a real corpse
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MacArthur's dead too
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For the record, this is a hell of a cast
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Charles Dance as Wargrave
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Sam Neil as MacArthur
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There's a special touch here that I adore
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Emily Brent talking about how she was invited by the Owens to ensure moral upstanding behavior in young ladies
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And it cuts to the secretary who typed up the letters
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just looking annoyed that she has to type something like this
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Armstrong breakdown hours
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Mr. Rogers dead
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Armstrong points at the other rich man of high class: "We're the smart ones, I know this"
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god the presentation of this scene
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Vera stoically walks into a room, the camera doesn't follow
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Vera walks out, still stoic
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Stares at the gong for a bit
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Walks to the dining room to look at the wax figures
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Confirms that there's five now instead of six
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Stoically walks back to the gong
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Hammers on it
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You don't even see the body yet you just
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know
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and there's Brent
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rip in Brent
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"This is so many names to keep track of"
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Agatha Christie has you covered
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she'll fix this problem
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SHE'S RELIABLE LIKE THAT
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Armstrong is just an incredible piece of shit
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spiraling into pieces
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A long tense argument about people accusing each other where Blore was and why he was the last one down the stairs
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Blore: "FINE, I WAS CONSTIPATED, OKAY"
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Everyone pauses
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and just start giggling
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that's just a
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lovely bit of humanity
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We still haven't had any flashbacks about Wargrave, which makes me suspicious
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Pausing for now bc
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Three hours of Christie is a lot
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back at this
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Wargrave talking about watching Edward Seton's execution
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hm
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Wargrave's death doesn't fit the poem
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I'm gonna.... tentatively put that as my guess for a fake death
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Although the characters seem to think it does
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-oh my god
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they're all getting HIGH
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to force themselves to stay awake
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I'm sure this will have no consequences
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JUST
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GETTING PLASTERED
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LISTENING TO THE RECORD OF THEIR CRIMES ON LOOP
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Phillip and Vera getting closer together
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which convinces Armstrong they're Mr. and Mrs. Owens
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there is
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way too much time left in the second and third episodes
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with only five people
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*four
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Blore flashback time
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Shocker, Blore's done some dirty shit
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Men off hunting for Armstrong
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Things super didn't work out for Hugo and Vera
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gun just found Phillip's room
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Armstrong's vanished not dead
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interesting
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the way the dynamics change between different characters is so fascinating
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Phillip and Blore start kind of antagonistic with Phillip calling him Tubs
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And then weirdly friendly
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and then aggressive again
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Blore: "Are we... dead already?"
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"Is this just hell? Being punished for what we've done."
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what the fuck
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the killer wore
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a bearskin
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when killing Blore
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how is there a full episode after this
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Phillip and Vera are the only ones left
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Someone HAS to have faked a death
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annnnd there's Armstrong
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it really is just them
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a bearskin?! good lord
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in the play and book, IIRC, a bear-shaped clock falls on his head
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jesus christ Vera
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she pretends that they need to bury Armstrong
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And then steals Phillip's gun
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jesus
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and there's
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Phillip
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at Vera's hands
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IS there a third episode