Talk:The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)

Questionable "discontinuities"
I've removed a couple of the alleged discontinuities because they're specifically addressed in the script.
 * Why was Roger murdered? This accomplished nothing. The vespiform wasn't able to hold its human form due to being poisoned by pepper. It may have become angry or frightened and reacted by randomly killing one of the diners, or it may have chosen to kill Roger out of jealousy (since they were half-brothers).
 * Roger was murdered because Arnold felt that the Edison title was rightly his. He's the older brother.  Yes, in the end it accomplished nothing, because Arnold died too.  But in the moment the rationale's quite clear:  "I wanted to take what was mine."


 * Additionally, Davenport's on-screen reaction to the murder seems to be more puzzlement than grief, which is extremely odd considering he has just lost his lover. Donna, apparently having returned from comforting him, angrily comments in the next scene that Davenport cannot grieve properly because of prevailing social attitude. Perhaps his public composure was maintained at great effort to comply with social expectation. Or it could just be bad acting.
 * Heh, this description hits the nail on the head until the bit about bad acting is interjected. The script clearly says he couldn't mourn properly.  So that's what the actor delivered.  This section's not really for judging acting performances, anyway.  Critique belongs elsewhere.


 * The book being read by Lady Clemency Eddison at the time the gem stone activated was The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but there is only one death in it and that is via a stabbing, where as the Vespiform kills three people: by hitting them on the head with a lead pipe; by crushing them by a statue and by stabbing them. Also The Doctor is poisoned with cyanide which also has no part in the book.The vespiform gets its views from the mothers mind whilst reading a book the mind will automatically be thinking of the authors other works thus these would be easier to access for the vespiform.
 * Again, the script tells you what's going on. Lady Edison says, "I was in the library.  I was reading my favorite Agatha Christie, thinking about her plots and how clever she must be. How is that relevant?"  Note that she says plots — plural, not singular.  So yes, indeed, it's more than just The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.