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Ok not to be one of those annoying 'questions every tiny plot hole' people but... where did Walt Whitman come from? Like, where does one get a pet peacock in 1910 Toronto? Surely, one doesn't simply go out one day and decide they're gonna "adopt" or "buy" a peacock, especially at that time. And yet here Milo is, with a peacock just mildly prancing around in his backyard all day. I feel like there's gotta be a story behind that.

#you don't choose the peacock. the peacock chooses you #snugbugbabbles #walt whitman the peacock #milo strange #llewellyn watts #murdoch mysteries #cbc murdoch #mms15 #reblog for this to breach containment and somebody thinks we're talking about the actual poet :)

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Is it just me or when you rewatch older seasons of Murdoch do you really start to feel like both William and Julia have lost a lot as characters over the years? I admit he was never exactly one of my faves, but at least at the beginning Murdoch felt like a somewhat fun + interesting protag. He shot arrows in his office and tested theories on dead pigs and recreated murder scenes in his mind and it was!! Genuinely entertaining!! And Julia was constantly working to open her mind and push the restraints around her-- be it through coming up with new ways to identify poisions or protesting for women's suffrage or even crossdressing! But now, Julia seems to have hardly any push left in her and Murdoch is just plain... well, dry. Then, after watching full episodes of Julia tagging along passively and Murdoch listing suspects dryly, we can always look forward to them ending it with the exact same flirting lines as have been said every episode since season 10.

I mean, I do understand why this could be happening-- for one, it's been, yk, 17 seasons of the same protag and his same partner/love interest. But also, hot take, if the writers can't keep writing them in ways that feel interesting, they just shouldn't. It's high-time that Murdoch retired/switched workplaces and Watts and Miss Hart were able to take over as the prime crime-solving duo! They've both only been around for 6-7 seasons and still have SO much more development to be had, especially if they were finally giving the time + space.

Even the problem of repeating murder mystery plots would probably be improved. Watts obviously has VERY different investigative methods (when he's even allowed to use them, since ofc Murdoch as protag HAS to solve 99% of the crimes :/) and thus pretty much the entire trajectory of the murder plotlines would be shifted. New stories/solutions would be opened up, since maybe Watts' methods would be more likely to yield them than Murdoch's. Or maybe he'd just be more likely to be around certain murders. The point is, having a character who was literally created to be almost the 'opposite' of Murdoch as the new detective would certainly add some much-needed variety.

Unironically, I think getting rid of Murdoch might be the only way to save Murdoch Mysteries at this point.

#murdoch mysteries #william murdoch #julia ogden #violet hart #llewellyn watts #detective murdoch #detective watts #hot take #unpopular opinion #actually i feel like it's becoming kinda popular at this point :| #snugbugbabbles #rambles #anti william murdoch #anti julia ogden #just to be safe #cbc murdoch #peter mitchell peter mitchell peter mitchell #i've heard that spawns him. we'll see #tw murder

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I feel like, given how insane of a show Murdoch Mysteries is and the fact that Canadian fans get the next season like, 6+ months before everyone else, it'd be really funny if Canadian fans started banding together to full-on lie to the rest of us about which insane thing they made happen this time.

Like just. Casually make a post talking about how Margaret Brackenreid murdered Albert Einstein in the most recent episode. And everyone else, out of pure dedication to the act, reblogs it like, "yeah that was crazy. anyway-"

And the rest of us are like "omg they did WHAT" because this show is so bad we can actually sort of believe that could happen in it. And the Canadians are laughing. They're laughing at the rest of us.

Actually that's just my theory on the whole "Inspector Brackenreid has the real Mona Lisa in his closet" thing I've been hearing about this week. I see you, Canadians, and I will not be duped.

#murdoch mysteries #cbc murdoch #mm s17 #mm spoilers #tw lying #mmxvii #snugbugbabbles #margaret brackenreid #thomas brackenreid