the moderately racist plotline about Miss Fisher's Chinese Boyfriend, His Silk Import Business, And His Communist Arranged Marriage Bride
!!! I haven't watched the show because I read the books at an early enough age that the changes the show made would have just bugged me too much (among other things, Jack Robinson is happily married and has no sexual tension with Phryne at all), so I didn't know they made the bride communist! In the original moderately racist plotline in the books, the problem isn't that she's a communist, it's that she has a Dark Secret[*] and is acting squirrelly because of it, and also that Mr Butler is paranoid about having to give evidence in a divorce court, so he gives notice now Phryne's dating a married man.[**]
[* The Dark Secret is that the woman Lin Chung was engaged to died. The family didn't want to break off the engagement, so they sent her older cousin who'd just been widowed. She is accordingly Not A Virgin. Phryne is able to assure her that this will not be a problem for Lin Chung.]
[** Phryne hires a new butler and asks Mr Butler to spend his notice period training him. The new butler tells so many horror stories about worse employers than Phryne, that Mr Butler changes his mind and withdraws his notice, very much to Phryne's and Mrs Butler's relief.]
In the original Miss Fisher episode, Miss Fisher's adopted daughter Jane's mother turns out to be alive, but deeply unstable; Miss Fisher promises to find Jane's mother a sanatorium where she can recover and where Jane can visit occasionally.
They what? (In the books, Phryne has two adoptive daughters, Jane and Ruth. I knew they'd compressed that into one daughter in the TV series, but I didn't know this part. I can't remember what the deal with Jane's parents was -- orphan, I think -- but Ruth's mother's in a sanatorium because she's dying of tuberculosis.)
What happens next? That is Not Miss Fisher's Problem.
In the books, she ends up either adopting or employing a LOT of people.
There also is at least one book that deals with the fact that the killer's going to be executed for it. I wouldn't say it handles it well, but she does arrange to fulfill the condemned man's last request, which is something deeply horrible.
Anyway, if I owned a small Australian business, I would simply ban her from the precipices.
She tips lavishly and also brings them a lot of business in a time when they needed it. I guess at least some people would have wanted to risk it.
Miss Fisher's Season Three arc-plot rehabilitating her deadbeat dad
...That definitely didn't happen in the books. She has to interact with her deadbeat dad in one book, but he just wants her to do him a favour and accompany a disfigured veteran back to Orkney, which she does for the soldier's sake, not her dad's. (She finds a body there, because of course she does.)
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!!! I haven't watched the show because I read the books at an early enough age that the changes the show made would have just bugged me too much (among other things, Jack Robinson is happily married and has no sexual tension with Phryne at all), so I didn't know they made the bride communist! In the original moderately racist plotline in the books, the problem isn't that she's a communist, it's that she has a Dark Secret[*] and is acting squirrelly because of it, and also that Mr Butler is paranoid about having to give evidence in a divorce court, so he gives notice now Phryne's dating a married man.[**]
[* The Dark Secret is that the woman Lin Chung was engaged to died. The family didn't want to break off the engagement, so they sent her older cousin who'd just been widowed. She is accordingly Not A Virgin. Phryne is able to assure her that this will not be a problem for Lin Chung.]
[** Phryne hires a new butler and asks Mr Butler to spend his notice period training him. The new butler tells so many horror stories about worse employers than Phryne, that Mr Butler changes his mind and withdraws his notice, very much to Phryne's and Mrs Butler's relief.]
In the original Miss Fisher episode, Miss Fisher's adopted daughter Jane's mother turns out to be alive, but deeply unstable; Miss Fisher promises to find Jane's mother a sanatorium where she can recover and where Jane can visit occasionally.
They what? (In the books, Phryne has two adoptive daughters, Jane and Ruth. I knew they'd compressed that into one daughter in the TV series, but I didn't know this part. I can't remember what the deal with Jane's parents was -- orphan, I think -- but Ruth's mother's in a sanatorium because she's dying of tuberculosis.)
What happens next? That is Not Miss Fisher's Problem.
In the books, she ends up either adopting or employing a LOT of people.
There also is at least one book that deals with the fact that the killer's going to be executed for it. I wouldn't say it handles it well, but she does arrange to fulfill the condemned man's last request, which is something deeply horrible.
Anyway, if I owned a small Australian business, I would simply ban her from the precipices.
She tips lavishly and also brings them a lot of business in a time when they needed it. I guess at least some people would have wanted to risk it.
Miss Fisher's Season Three arc-plot rehabilitating her deadbeat dad
...That definitely didn't happen in the books. She has to interact with her deadbeat dad in one book, but he just wants her to do him a favour and accompany a disfigured veteran back to Orkney, which she does for the soldier's sake, not her dad's. (She finds a body there, because of course she does.)