The Musketeers 02x08, "The Prodigal Father"

[asthenie_vd]

Well, that was underwhelming.

(Don't worry, I'm not hating ... everything. It's just long. I simply, unreasonably expected more from the long since promised big episode about my favourite musketeer.)

Comments

[failte_aoife]

Sort of...yeah. I also agree with the basic point d'Artagnan was making re: you really have no reason to play the grieving widow now but he just made them in the worst possible way and I can't really excuse that. Because with the whole 'if you leave me waiting much longer I'll be gone' he put her under a lot of pressure and really it's not like he had been waiting that long at that point (idk but I would guess there might have been a month between the episodes? A bit longer as Treville is again well enough to ride?)
And if you remember the previous episode: he insisted that he would be the one who would tell her about Bonacieux' death and the way he looked at her in the last scene: it's not like he stormed in and went 'GOOD NEWS! YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT YOU HUSBAND ANYMORE' back then he seemed to be aware that this would be hard for her not because she ever loved him but because that was still somebody she knew well (and perhaps some subconscious guilt because well that was a convenient way to solve the problem...).
So him being aware of that and then doing a 180 and going 'be mine now or leave FOREVER' just makes it even more jerky...

[asthenie_vd]

I kind of rambled on about this below, so excuse me for not repeating everything in detail (I kinda rambled on long D:) but I think Constance had every reason to play the grieving widow. She might not have loved Bonacieux, but he was still a large part of her life for a long time, and her thoughts regarding him are understandibly confused. Especially as she's experiencing guilt over not having loved the man despite him not having been a stellar husband either. That's not something you just shake off even if you have nice new lover right there.

(idk but I would guess there might have been a month between the episodes? A bit longer as Treville is again well enough to ride?)

You're applying real world logic to a show that had them ride around in the first ep of series two for days with a man who had been shot in the stomach, and who was still bleeding but somehow also still alive and coherent by the time they got back to the garrison. You know, instead of taking him to the nearest town to have him cared for or calling Treville there to hear his dying words or whatever.

[failte_aoife]

Idk but I think we mean similar things? I just might have expressed myself not in the best way? I really do get that d'Art would be frustrated at her behaviour considering he knows that their marriage was far from happy but that doesn't even come close to excusing anything he said. And as said: when he understands that her husband's death would upset her despite everything in one episode why did he suddenly forget that in the next?

You're applying real world logic to a show

Fair point XD (though we can probably safely take 'Bonacieux still has a wooden cross in a sea of headstones' as sign for not that much time had passed...that's somehow universal TV-language even though it can take a while to make one?)

[asthenie_vd]

Hm, you're right. He seemed to understand that she would take it hard in the last episode which only makes it weirder that he'd apparently get impatient after like a week in this episode. Because you're also right in thinking that the wooden cross implies a very recent burial.