put a big pebble in a bottle
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shallownessThe Musketeers 3.7
A really heightened episode, but it still wasn’t really very good, even if it did live up to the promise of peril in an unexpected way.
The black hats’ planning continued to be terrible. Setting aside the fact it was hard to believe they would succeed in killing a musketeer (I thought Treville was for it) for every good move they made – dividing the quartet, and even some of that was unintentional, they made some terrible adjustments when things began going wrong.
We started off with major misdirection (in hindsight Farron’s voiceover was foreshadowing, not giving Everett a chance to declaim) as the Musketeers flirted with blindfolds, restraints and knifeplay. Oo-er etc, etc.
Porthos’s grumbling about everything was The Best, throughout. I hope he gets a wife and child too.
They did their best with Louis worrying about his soul, insisting on a reckoning with Aramis (who then, hilariously, blabbed to everyone about Louis’s terminal state – while not hanging Aramis after he’d saved his life was the right outcome, Louis could have made good on his intention to separate Aramis from Anne and the Dauphin by exiling him) and managing to stay Farron’s hand, of all things. I mean, I still think he’s mostly a fool. He has no idea what he’s doing to his people and Farron was no guardian for ‘his’ son, Aramis made some good points about Anne’s loneliness, which have only been exacerbated by the past five year – no wonder she isn’t over ugly old Aramis after being ostracised and belittled at court by her husband, and then her ex-lover comes back to give her puppy eyes and tell her she’s a strong woman.
I may have accused Sylive of part=time sedition when she was in the midst of being dumped by Athos. Of course he blamed the fact he’d let his guard down around her for everything that had gone wrong, even though she saved his life. She did well until she thought she’d killed Grimaud when she’d obviously just maimed him.
I liked the multiple rescuing, even if Porthos and D’Artagnan shouting together that they weren’t going to die before the explosives went off made me giggle and the fact that Athos was well enough to ride (how bad was his shoulder), as were they, apparently, after being crushed by a building, was also preposterous. Ditto Grimaud not bleeding out – for a while, I thought he was so intent on continuing with their plans because he thought he was going to die and wanted to bring everyone down with him.
But no, now he has a grudge with Athos. Gaston, who I keep thinking of as a Lestat wannabe is on the loose and the Red Guard captain has thrown in his lot with them. It’s a conspiracy (by some terrible plotters) that’s not spearheaded by OTT villainy. (Come back, Milady! Not so much to be evil as competent.)
Meanwhile, D’Artagnan wants kids – he should maybe talk to Constance about that.
Bits of this were entertaining enough, and it felt as if there was more urgency to it, but this episode was all held together by string and it was too visible.
A really heightened episode, but it still wasn’t really very good, even if it did live up to the promise of peril in an unexpected way.
The black hats’ planning continued to be terrible. Setting aside the fact it was hard to believe they would succeed in killing a musketeer (I thought Treville was for it) for every good move they made – dividing the quartet, and even some of that was unintentional, they made some terrible adjustments when things began going wrong.
We started off with major misdirection (in hindsight Farron’s voiceover was foreshadowing, not giving Everett a chance to declaim) as the Musketeers flirted with blindfolds, restraints and knifeplay. Oo-er etc, etc.
Porthos’s grumbling about everything was The Best, throughout. I hope he gets a wife and child too.
They did their best with Louis worrying about his soul, insisting on a reckoning with Aramis (who then, hilariously, blabbed to everyone about Louis’s terminal state – while not hanging Aramis after he’d saved his life was the right outcome, Louis could have made good on his intention to separate Aramis from Anne and the Dauphin by exiling him) and managing to stay Farron’s hand, of all things. I mean, I still think he’s mostly a fool. He has no idea what he’s doing to his people and Farron was no guardian for ‘his’ son, Aramis made some good points about Anne’s loneliness, which have only been exacerbated by the past five year – no wonder she isn’t over ugly old Aramis after being ostracised and belittled at court by her husband, and then her ex-lover comes back to give her puppy eyes and tell her she’s a strong woman.
I may have accused Sylive of part=time sedition when she was in the midst of being dumped by Athos. Of course he blamed the fact he’d let his guard down around her for everything that had gone wrong, even though she saved his life. She did well until she thought she’d killed Grimaud when she’d obviously just maimed him.
I liked the multiple rescuing, even if Porthos and D’Artagnan shouting together that they weren’t going to die before the explosives went off made me giggle and the fact that Athos was well enough to ride (how bad was his shoulder), as were they, apparently, after being crushed by a building, was also preposterous. Ditto Grimaud not bleeding out – for a while, I thought he was so intent on continuing with their plans because he thought he was going to die and wanted to bring everyone down with him.
But no, now he has a grudge with Athos. Gaston, who I keep thinking of as a Lestat wannabe is on the loose and the Red Guard captain has thrown in his lot with them. It’s a conspiracy (by some terrible plotters) that’s not spearheaded by OTT villainy. (Come back, Milady! Not so much to be evil as competent.)
Meanwhile, D’Artagnan wants kids – he should maybe talk to Constance about that.
Bits of this were entertaining enough, and it felt as if there was more urgency to it, but this episode was all held together by string and it was too visible.
