Miss Fisher Australia Tour (84)
Although we learned early on that Phryne grew up poor in Collingwood, we never got to witness the neighborhood until S3E4 Blood and Money. It was dark, noisy, and dirty, far from the glamourous image of the Honorable Miss Phryne Fisher that had been presented thus far. One scene that struck me particularly was when Miss Fisher and Paddy were hiding in the alley waiting for Ned, Jack and Hugh showed up unexpectedly to arrest Ned for stabbing Badger. At first I thought it was in the evening because the alley was almost pitch black, but the following scene in the woods where Jack asked Ned if he buried Badger here was in broad daylight. The sharp contrast highlighted how poor the living conditions were in this neighborhood. When Phryne said “The more things change, the more they stay the same”, we knew this was how she grew up.
Collingwood is one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs, established in the 1850s. My google search rendered the following statement: “Collingwood is one of Melbourne’s hippest neighborhoods and its blue-collar origins are evident in its workers’ cottages and converted warehouses, which today house offices, galleries, cafes and quirky shops. The area is a hub for Melbourne’s music scene, with venues like the Tote Hotel staging regular punk and indie gigs. Smith Street is packed with lively restaurants and bars, as well as vintage stores.” There is no mention of poverty, so I guess like any cities, there are pockets of lower socioeconomic areas.
For those who plan on paying Phryne’s hometown a visit, there is a visitmelbourne.com website (search for Collingwood) that could help you plan your trip from dining and bar-hopping, arts and activity, musical nights, to shopping “Collingwood style”. If you run into Phryne and Francois dancing the night away, please send our regards.
(Posted 20-Jun-2019)
Phryne x Jack 3.07
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries + text posts (2/∞)
Dot looks like the least enthusiastic criminal to ever hold a gun
Keeping the MFMM Faith
Good morning from California, fellow Phrackers!
I am here to be your cheerleader today. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard any news about the future of our favorite badass lady detective, our dashingly handsome detective inspector, and the rest of the MFMM clan.
So if your spirits are lagging and hope is diminishing, just remember that:
“Nothing that matters is easy.”
“Yes, but that’s the hardest thing, isn’t it? Staying true to your team when everything is going wrong”
So, chins up! Keep the Phracking faith. Keep the posts flowing. Kudos to @izzyandlouie, @shmit1 and others for sending us daily reminders to keep a candle burning in the window.
Happy weekend, all!
Ahhh!!!
Here’s the link to the email with this exciting news!
OMG
Excited!
Love reblogging this! Again and again! 😍😍😍
MFMM folks – knowing the little bit about Hollywood and film financing that I do, I think there is very good news in this email if you read the tea leaves properly.
It’s good news that Every Cloud has a producing partner with deeper pockets. It’s good news that they had an in person meeting with Netflix and Amazon. (Netflix would be the most likely buyer, and they have proprietary stats on how well the TV show is doing on the platform right now.) And it’s good news that the script NP & ED are holding says “third draft” – you don’t write that many drafts if the project isn’t moving. Certainly it could fall apart if Netflix passes, but the odds are much better today than they were before.
Wow, sooo excited to read your positive and informed interpretation of this latest exciting news @longlineoftvdetectives! You must have an amazing zoom lens, I could barely read the script’s title let alone which draft it is (must try again, not because I don’t believe you, but because I’m soooo extra excited or after reading your take on it all!!! Thank you!!!
I can’t even…I’m so excited…circuit board overloading…dead.
Oh… You’ve creased it now
+ bonus
That scene where Jack and Phryne talk about the Foyle letter is SO intimate! How did I never realize how intimate it is?
Jack Robinson
Phryne Fisher 💄
Mr. B is like a psychic bartender
Watching Death by Miss Adventure with a decent amount of alcohol
You know, in my opinion, Phryne is so taken with Jack, even from the very beginning, because he is markedly different from her father.
She may be willing to dally with charmers and smooth-talkers, but when it comes down to it, her father is that same type of man. He can talk his way into and out of anything, is consistently taken to flights of fancy, never owns up to his mistakes, and Phryne suffered all through her childhood because of him. She will never linger with a man who displays those same traits of untrustworthiness.
Is it any wonder that when straight-laced, honest, serious, and not in the least given to the vices of her father, one Detective Inspector Jack Robinson walks into her life and refuses to fall prey to her charms, that she is not enthralled with him?
Phryne is regular about her attempts to get under his skin, smiling and attempting to trip him up, testing his mettle. Testing to see if he is of the same stuff as her father.
Jack never folds. He does not waver, nor does he falter. He is as enthralled with her as she is with him, but Jack, oh Jack, knows better. Phryne Fisher is a fire, blazing almost out of control, and the danger of getting burned by her is too much.
At the same time, as Jack keeps her at arm’s length (or perhaps, shoulder’s length), Phryne is similarly faltering. She is taken with the solid foundation that is Jack Robinson but cannot take that risk for the longest time. She was taken in by René Dubois and he would’ve destroyed her.
Neither can deny the deep entrenchment of trust between them, but neither can they own up to it.
But the respect grows into unshakeable trust, the trust into a fond caring, and the rest was either a downhill slide or an uphill climb. Perhaps both.
When “Blood at the Wheel” rolls along, an ease, a complacency has become the norm. An expectation for the other.
But then, there is a devastating catalyst–the fear of Phryne’s untimely demise–and then a turning point. The first true admittance of the undercurrent to their partnership. That deeper tow that keeps them close to each other. Phryne is maybe hesitant to move past their day-to-day companionship, but cannot go back to being strangers.
Jack is infinitely more cautious, though, and his careful countenance tells him that a path ahead with Phryne will only end in his own pain. The only recourse is to walk away and he does, even when Phryne tries to quantity what their relationship means to her–that it will be as if he were the one in the wreck for him to walk away.
As they say, it is too little, too late. The damage is wrought and there are only the consequences to reap now.
By my thinking, at this point, the dissimilarity between Jack and Phryne’s father is certain to the lady in question. Just in time for Jack to put the brakes on what was developing between them, and that stabs deep for Phryne, but not so much that she cannot recover. This is Jack and she knows how he works now. The wound inflicted was not intentional nor caused by negligence; it is because he cares that he hurts both of them. And a shared pain is one more easily overcome.
The road back is a rather short one because of it, spanning the course of one episode, but then the following episode is also a rebuilding of bridges, testing the groundwork between them for its trustworthiness. They recover and move forward from it for the stronger, though.
By the time the third season rolls around, the game has changed and the balance of their partnership is easily unbalanced. Jack is vexed, to say the least, when it appears Phryne has pushed him aside, once again, for another.
Instead of an ex-lover, a seductive instructor, or an amorous foreigner, however, her distracting company is none other than one Baron Henry Fisher.
I think that her father’s appearance raises old fears for Phryne. Reminds her of where she’s come from and why she’s so wary of committed relationships, because the very next episode she throws herself into a fling with Compton.
Then she sees Jack, as she’s running about in Compton’s coat and bare feet, a siren as to her recent activities, and starts to understand when he walks away.
The real revelation for both Jack and Phryne comes in “Murder & Mozzerella” when they are both approached, with different levels of earnestness, by an Italian from either side of the feud.
Phryne cannot believe that Guido’s love for her will last and tells him as such. (How could she, when he has nothing but words to prove himself?) Jack wants to be able to love Concetta and you can see it in his eyes, but his heart’s not there when she kisses him. She knows it, he knows it, and we know it.
Phryne is at home that night, alone, contemplative. It’s impossible to say what about, but one speculation could be that her thoughts were lingering on Jack and Concetta. You don’t have to be of a keen eye to see that Concetta would suit Jack–quiet, devoted, even-tempered. Nothing like Phryne.
And then Mr. Butler announces the Inspector and one of the first thing she inquires after what she’d assumed were his dinner plans. Strano’s is closed. (It wouldn’t matter, for him.) But he is there, always.
“Jack Robinson, the man who always does the right thing. The noble thing.”
The one who is not like her father. The one who comes back. The one who is not dishonest with her, who hasn’t let her down.
It was inevitable, I think. Reaching the point where Jack felt confident enough to take her arm in hand and drag her close to kiss, because she is what he wants. Reaching the point where Phryne smiled and told him to come after her, because that’s how much she trusts him.
“Come after me, Jack Robinson.” Final words, irreversible, but with her heart behind them. There is no higher show of trust than this, for Phryne, the woman who enjoys showing how well she copes alone.
Even if their is never a season four and a canonical continuation to their story, I am content. Come after me and a kiss that tells much more than words. It is telling, and it is enough.
Such a beautiful analysis of the partnership that becomes a friendship that becomes more. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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I never thought about that… Great analysis indeed!
But her parting words…there’s a great big world out there, he’s the least of your worries…belies what is true. I’m sure Jack would mull that over, and over. He made his position clear, who he is, isn’t and will never be. She clearly wants him, but it’s that lack of commitment that she clings to. And Jack needs and deserves commitment. Phryne loves Jack, and I think she will realize that she can only break his wonderful heart. Jack loves Phryne, and I think he knows she would never be who she truly is if she limited herself. In the end, I think they will choose the status quo.
Anyone good with guy stuff? Because I'm a totally disaster haha
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