Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Open Thread!

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Welcome to the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Open Thread!




(Thanks to cyborganize for the graphic!)

So many friends are watching Miss Fisher, tellitslant and I thought it might be nice to start a new (public) open thread.

Because --

* twitter is too short.

* tumblr is difficult (for some) to archive/track.

* it'd be fun to have my friends talk with each other about MFMM.

* I want to meet your MFMM fandom friends too.


Couple quick notes:

* don't be shy about using comment subject lines. If past is precedent, MFMM conversations can be sprawling and subject lines will help everyone.

* please tag S3 spoilers in your comment subject line.

* please post anything you find on S3! that one video is great but not enough. :D

* it probably doesn't need to be said? but, no character-bashing or ship-bashing. Be respectful of different fanons.


Post away!

Comments

series 3 episode 1 reactions

[cyborganize]

If it's even possible to say anything beyond incoherent flailing?

Re: series 3 episode 1 reactions

[tellitslant]

I have to re-watch before I have actual thoughts, but in the interim: WHY must there always be dead lesbians. WHY, SHOW, WHY.

Re: series 3 episode 1 reactions

[cyborganize]

TRUE. So true. I don't want to defend the series on this point (or on any other of its consistent fails re: gender, race, class), but here are, in my opinion, a few mitigating factors:

1. It's a murder show, so ancillary characters can only be introduced via murder. (However, it must be noted that the two queer women who have been murder victims died in especially gruesome ways, comparatively.)
2. There was also an alive lesbian! (Although she's conspicuously lacking an alive paramour!)
3. In the context of Mac, and of her own possibly fluid sexuality, the way Phryne engages with lesbian murder victims and suspects has a bit more investment and nuance than you'd typically see in a period piece or procedural – I like seeing her interact with additional queers even if it can only be through crime and calamity.
4. For unrelated reasons, I've been doing a bit of reading in queer modernisms. Despite a bohemian touch of "free love" in the 20s, the self-representation of queers/homos/inverts from that time seems pretty tragic, depressing, and violent. (Not that MFMM cares a lot about period accuracy in relation to gender and sexuality in other respects.)