Has anyone involved in this series ever read the books?

landisro

I love all the Hamish Macbeth books, and am a huge mystery fan as well. I just saw my first episode and was shocked and appalled. First of all, there was no mystery. It was like some washed out version of Monarch of the Glen. I like quirky locals as well as the next person, but where is the mystery? My main gripes: Robert Carlyle looks NOTHING like what Hamish is supposed to. If you've read the books you'll know that he's supposed to be tall, gangly, and not overly good looking. His dog is a mangy mutt named Lugs, not a cute West Highland white. The love of his life is the local aristocrat, daughter of the owner of the big hotel. In general the townsfolk think Hamish is a lazy good for nothing, even though he does solve crimes better than anyone else in his region of Scotland.

So my question is, why bother calling it the Hamish Macbeth series? Just pick a name out of the phone book and forget the author's original intention.

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landisro 14 January 2005

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