The Musketeers ep 2
Jan. 27th, 2014 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessStill entertaining.
Quite a lot of effort went into Vadim, for a villain of the week: he’s an early Revolutionary/oh no, he’s not/whatever he is, D’Artagnan isn’t as smart as he is, but he’s still learning. Er, at this rate, I may have to be less patronising about the boy.
More locations to swoon over.
I very much enjoyed Aramis and Porthos snarking, especially after they referenced Adele (whom Aramis doesn’t know is dead?) because I spent the first few scenes with a frown that they weren’t acknowledging what had happened to her. Really, it was distracting me. But we got to see more of the three musketeers’ dynamic and how D’Artagnan can fit into that and how they all are with the captain. So, Athos is the Worrying Lieutenant.
I’d like the trope of ‘we have to stop fake kissing like this’ if it didn’t involve hitting my infidelity!squick. Yes, Constance’s husband is an idiot, and yes, D’Artagnan seems to like her as a person and see her strengths (but he’s in lust with Milady), but I want Madame Forthright not to be unfaithful. That’s just going to be my issue with this canon.
But on the other hand, I couldn’t take Aramis/the Queen seriously. I dunno. I don’t know if they’ve fully synthesised his character, because he definitely plays up the gallant role, and it’s hard to tell how much of his heart is involved, especially when flirting with Suzette was basically putting her through a polygraph test.
He has the best male hair on the show, though.
And, at east he was a half-decent bodyguard. The Queen was far too easy to pluck, o musketeers.
Oh, and if Constance and her husband are tailors to the musketeers, that explains her knowing Athos and the others better.
Lots of excitingness (fights!) going on, even it is not a wildly revolutionary (sorry) show. I’m still enjoying Milady and I like the shadings to the king (I found out that the actor played a completely different character in The Hobbit 2 and am impressed.)
Also, if I did not mention this last week, I love the opening credits.
Quite a lot of effort went into Vadim, for a villain of the week: he’s an early Revolutionary/oh no, he’s not/whatever he is, D’Artagnan isn’t as smart as he is, but he’s still learning. Er, at this rate, I may have to be less patronising about the boy.
More locations to swoon over.
I very much enjoyed Aramis and Porthos snarking, especially after they referenced Adele (whom Aramis doesn’t know is dead?) because I spent the first few scenes with a frown that they weren’t acknowledging what had happened to her. Really, it was distracting me. But we got to see more of the three musketeers’ dynamic and how D’Artagnan can fit into that and how they all are with the captain. So, Athos is the Worrying Lieutenant.
I’d like the trope of ‘we have to stop fake kissing like this’ if it didn’t involve hitting my infidelity!squick. Yes, Constance’s husband is an idiot, and yes, D’Artagnan seems to like her as a person and see her strengths (but he’s in lust with Milady), but I want Madame Forthright not to be unfaithful. That’s just going to be my issue with this canon.
But on the other hand, I couldn’t take Aramis/the Queen seriously. I dunno. I don’t know if they’ve fully synthesised his character, because he definitely plays up the gallant role, and it’s hard to tell how much of his heart is involved, especially when flirting with Suzette was basically putting her through a polygraph test.
He has the best male hair on the show, though.
And, at east he was a half-decent bodyguard. The Queen was far too easy to pluck, o musketeers.
Oh, and if Constance and her husband are tailors to the musketeers, that explains her knowing Athos and the others better.
Lots of excitingness (fights!) going on, even it is not a wildly revolutionary (sorry) show. I’m still enjoying Milady and I like the shadings to the king (I found out that the actor played a completely different character in The Hobbit 2 and am impressed.)
Also, if I did not mention this last week, I love the opening credits.
