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shallowness) wrote2015-01-03 09:48 am
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The Musketeers 2.01
This got straight down to business, pretty much, didn’t it!?
We started with the Cardinal’s funeral, the King and Queen having curlier hair than I remembered and quick reminders of most of what happened in season 1. Obviously, the main agenda for this episode was to introduce Marc Warren’s Rochefort (thank goodness he got his hair cut by the end of the episode; that was a distracting barnet) and he was just ambiguous enough around his supposed allies, although I hope Athos doesn’t forget that he killed that villager for no good reason at the start of the episode. Of course Rochefort underestimated the Musketeers. I mean, he’s obviously self-interested, but I think it would be fascinating if they kept him loyal to Spain. I’m also interested in finding out why Anne hasn’t seen through him (and if she hasn’t, anyway, she may love him, but she’s going to love the Dauphin and thus France’s future more) and looking forward to seeing him interact with Milady.
That was one of the big downers in this episode, realising she wasn’t going to turn up. I hope she gets the really big entrance she deserves in the next one.
But it was easy to get over my hump about that, because there was so much else going on: Treville’s rejection of the promotion, which was another thing for Anne to watch anf fret about; Constance had got prettier over the break (the guitar in the fantasy sequence broke me, and I was relieved it was a fantasy not, as I’d thought, a flashback); how I really liked Lucy, who was sensible, loyal and did what she could, and hope she stays around if she doesn’t get too hurt by the undertow of D’Artagnan’s love life; how Constance had excellent points about her decision and still managed not to tell D’Artagnan that her husband blackmailed her into giving him up; watching Queen trump Draper Husband (although if Bonacieux ever finds out about the Adultery with a Musketeer...) I’m very excited about Anne and Constance working together. Also, there was all that stuff about Porthos’s father and finally, perhaps best of all, the message to Aramis about Adele – a callback to the first episode and really encouraging about how they’re making the forced death of the Cardinal an organic, integral part of the plot. Because I don’t think the Cardinal had any proof that Aramis was the babydaddy, but that was an excellent means of getting into Artemis’s mind.
Is it me or was Athos a bit more chilled and chirpy in this episode? I’d forgotten how much I like Tom Burke’s voice.
The episode wasn’t flawless – every time the musketeers go to banter, I enjoyed it and realised we hadn’t had enough of that, although I appreciated the plot coming first. And although I chuckled at D’Artagnan’s shenanigans and liked the set-up of D’Artagnan/Lucy, why didn’t Athos send the Spanish-speaking musketeer in to scout the prison? Why, for that matter, didn’t the Spaniards use sister Lucy to torture DeBoix by threatening to arrange a marriage for her etc if they didn’t want to get physically nasty? He’d have broken then.
But there was swashbuckling, snark and the gorgeous interiors and architecture that I’ve always loved, and altogether, it was better than I’d dared hope.
It's 2015 and I already have a few shows that I need to catch up on. It's been such an odd time since Christmas Eve, with its own rhythyms and unique (lack of) routine.
This got straight down to business, pretty much, didn’t it!?
We started with the Cardinal’s funeral, the King and Queen having curlier hair than I remembered and quick reminders of most of what happened in season 1. Obviously, the main agenda for this episode was to introduce Marc Warren’s Rochefort (thank goodness he got his hair cut by the end of the episode; that was a distracting barnet) and he was just ambiguous enough around his supposed allies, although I hope Athos doesn’t forget that he killed that villager for no good reason at the start of the episode. Of course Rochefort underestimated the Musketeers. I mean, he’s obviously self-interested, but I think it would be fascinating if they kept him loyal to Spain. I’m also interested in finding out why Anne hasn’t seen through him (and if she hasn’t, anyway, she may love him, but she’s going to love the Dauphin and thus France’s future more) and looking forward to seeing him interact with Milady.
That was one of the big downers in this episode, realising she wasn’t going to turn up. I hope she gets the really big entrance she deserves in the next one.
But it was easy to get over my hump about that, because there was so much else going on: Treville’s rejection of the promotion, which was another thing for Anne to watch anf fret about; Constance had got prettier over the break (the guitar in the fantasy sequence broke me, and I was relieved it was a fantasy not, as I’d thought, a flashback); how I really liked Lucy, who was sensible, loyal and did what she could, and hope she stays around if she doesn’t get too hurt by the undertow of D’Artagnan’s love life; how Constance had excellent points about her decision and still managed not to tell D’Artagnan that her husband blackmailed her into giving him up; watching Queen trump Draper Husband (although if Bonacieux ever finds out about the Adultery with a Musketeer...) I’m very excited about Anne and Constance working together. Also, there was all that stuff about Porthos’s father and finally, perhaps best of all, the message to Aramis about Adele – a callback to the first episode and really encouraging about how they’re making the forced death of the Cardinal an organic, integral part of the plot. Because I don’t think the Cardinal had any proof that Aramis was the babydaddy, but that was an excellent means of getting into Artemis’s mind.
Is it me or was Athos a bit more chilled and chirpy in this episode? I’d forgotten how much I like Tom Burke’s voice.
The episode wasn’t flawless – every time the musketeers go to banter, I enjoyed it and realised we hadn’t had enough of that, although I appreciated the plot coming first. And although I chuckled at D’Artagnan’s shenanigans and liked the set-up of D’Artagnan/Lucy, why didn’t Athos send the Spanish-speaking musketeer in to scout the prison? Why, for that matter, didn’t the Spaniards use sister Lucy to torture DeBoix by threatening to arrange a marriage for her etc if they didn’t want to get physically nasty? He’d have broken then.
But there was swashbuckling, snark and the gorgeous interiors and architecture that I’ve always loved, and altogether, it was better than I’d dared hope.
It's 2015 and I already have a few shows that I need to catch up on. It's been such an odd time since Christmas Eve, with its own rhythyms and unique (lack of) routine.