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The Musketeers
Jan. 30th, 2014 12:01 amI am utterly the wrong person to be talking about this show because fwheee! It was made for me.
I'm also a week behind because of travel.
The new Musketeers feels very much as though it's been written by someone who has read the book and realised what the important parts are, like swordfights and personality, and that everything else is optional.
And it's good enough that I don't care.
They've given me three roguish Musketeers, an adorable D'Artagnan, a stunning Milady, a Constance I am already in love with and a Cardinal who is not evil (as such) and is just trying to do what he thinks is best for France.
The Cardinal not being evil and none of the Musketeers being bumbling fools is what I like the most.
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It wasn't perfect, mind you. I can see why N thought the lingo was a little too modern. I didn't mind that, but I minded Anne of Austria being a Spanish princess!!!
But overall, good and solid and I now totally have an excuse for dressing up as Aramis. I look nothing like Aramis in the Gene Kelly version, or Charlie Sheen, Richard Chamberlain or Jeremy Irons. I look slightly more like Luke Evans. But Santiago Cabrera's Aramis I can definitely do.
I'm also a week behind because of travel.
The new Musketeers feels very much as though it's been written by someone who has read the book and realised what the important parts are, like swordfights and personality, and that everything else is optional.
And it's good enough that I don't care.
They've given me three roguish Musketeers, an adorable D'Artagnan, a stunning Milady, a Constance I am already in love with and a Cardinal who is not evil (as such) and is just trying to do what he thinks is best for France.
The Cardinal not being evil and none of the Musketeers being bumbling fools is what I like the most.
( Further details under the cut )
It wasn't perfect, mind you. I can see why N thought the lingo was a little too modern. I didn't mind that, but I minded Anne of Austria being a Spanish princess!!!
But overall, good and solid and I now totally have an excuse for dressing up as Aramis. I look nothing like Aramis in the Gene Kelly version, or Charlie Sheen, Richard Chamberlain or Jeremy Irons. I look slightly more like Luke Evans. But Santiago Cabrera's Aramis I can definitely do.
