The Musketeers
Jan. 30th, 2014 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99I 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.
I'd love to know why adaptations keep killing of D'Artagnan's Dad. It puzzles me.
I love their casting for Athos. Tom Burke has this solidity to him that's perfect for the role. And he does a good almost malevolent brooding. I particularly liked the hungover awakening. It was perfect.
Also, I covet his clothes. (Actually I covet all the clothes.)
I love that Porthos is a dirty rotten scoundrel. I love that Athos defends him anyway and just criticises him for being bad at it. I love him.
I love that the programme made me go "No, not even Aramis could be that stupid" as the characters said the same thing. I love that Athos and Porthos mock him and break his fall anyway. (I also love that Porthos stays at the inn to carry Athos home. These are the friends you want to have.)
I <3 my Musketeers.
I'm in love with D'Artagnan - his impetuousness, his unerring ability to run into trouble.
And I like Constance even more. And I like that they've kept her husband. And Aramis's look of "so what" when D'Artagnan says Constance is married. Constance is brave and wonderful.
And their Milady! So far it's clear that she and Athos have damaged each other beyond repair. Also, she's dangerous but smoking hot so you can understand D'Artagnan chasing after her, even if he's pretending that it's to get an explanation out of her.
It is however off-putting to have Hugo Speer as the Captain of the Musketeers. He can't be old enough to play de Treville. It's just wrong.
The Cardinal is interesting. And merely a power-hungry control freak, which is always appreciated. A friend said he thought that Capaldi was OTT. I didn't think so, particularly in the scene where the King crumbles. Other people might have allowed themselves a grin, instead of just giving it gleeful eyes.
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.
I'd love to know why adaptations keep killing of D'Artagnan's Dad. It puzzles me.
I love their casting for Athos. Tom Burke has this solidity to him that's perfect for the role. And he does a good almost malevolent brooding. I particularly liked the hungover awakening. It was perfect.
Also, I covet his clothes. (Actually I covet all the clothes.)
I love that Porthos is a dirty rotten scoundrel. I love that Athos defends him anyway and just criticises him for being bad at it. I love him.
I love that the programme made me go "No, not even Aramis could be that stupid" as the characters said the same thing. I love that Athos and Porthos mock him and break his fall anyway. (I also love that Porthos stays at the inn to carry Athos home. These are the friends you want to have.)
I <3 my Musketeers.
I'm in love with D'Artagnan - his impetuousness, his unerring ability to run into trouble.
And I like Constance even more. And I like that they've kept her husband. And Aramis's look of "so what" when D'Artagnan says Constance is married. Constance is brave and wonderful.
And their Milady! So far it's clear that she and Athos have damaged each other beyond repair. Also, she's dangerous but smoking hot so you can understand D'Artagnan chasing after her, even if he's pretending that it's to get an explanation out of her.
It is however off-putting to have Hugo Speer as the Captain of the Musketeers. He can't be old enough to play de Treville. It's just wrong.
The Cardinal is interesting. And merely a power-hungry control freak, which is always appreciated. A friend said he thought that Capaldi was OTT. I didn't think so, particularly in the scene where the King crumbles. Other people might have allowed themselves a grin, instead of just giving it gleeful eyes.
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.
