The Musketeers
I started watching this live, then got a phone call and caught up with the rest this morning.
2.3 The Good Traitor
An episode of varying Spanish accents, some threatened silliness overtaken by many developments.
Revelations about Rochefort’s feelings about the Queen (mine are that i kind of liked the black velvet four-poster bed).
Did anyone care about that statue? Ah well, at least Tariq told them all to stand back.
I liked his daughter, Samira, for her feistiness when we first met her.
Fatherhood has turned Aramis’s brain to mush (except when Porthos is in danger). Sadly, Athos didn’t pick up on this, although his 'this is madness' looks and lectures haven't had much effect anyway.
But the fight in the marketplace was well done, even if the outcome was nearly all predictable.
Follow your instincts, Constance! Not the ones that lead to annoying the King. I saw nothing to disprove my theory that D’Artagnan wants to be making babies with her.
I squeed when Milady the player brushed past Rochefort the player as they intrigued their separate intrigues. If he didn’t recognise that at the moment, he did eventually.
Oh, Samira, I know your opinion was formed by the Spanish treatment of you and your father and other Moors, but when it comes to race and self-identification, LISTEN to what someone (Porthos) is telling you about who he is and who he chooses to be. His story is not yours.
Loved Charles’s little grimace at her probe about what part of Africa his mother came from (our Spanish poet maybe didn’t also consider that class is a factor in all this.)
Darling, brave, foolish Constance, couldn’t you have sneaked a really big kettle from the kitchen for your commoners’ remedy? (I didn’t realise the guy playing Bonacieux was played by Miranda’s not!Gary suitor. Huh.) Bonacieux really doesn’t know his own wife.
I am sad that they are making Anne so distraught she’s stupid, although we are seeing how vulnerable she is at court, but that she didn’t notice Rochefort’s ‘I love you’ slip...Interesting weakenss for someone who is otherwise so comfortably arrogant. (In him, I mean.) It’s all piling up into an interesting villain.
Milady played the king spectacularly and I started wishing Gage was also cast in something where he gets to play a little subtler and be awarded for it.
I liked how the two plotlines were strong enough on their own and, apart from Aramis’s worry, only intertwined in the King and Rochefort.
Poor Constance, that moment where she and Milady crossed paths!
Tariq ended up being a noble Moor, and I was glad the racist soldier got his (mega destructive!) comeuppance, although I kept thinking it would turn out that Samira would know more about the cipher than we thought, even until half way through her leave-taking of Porthos. But nope, just a poet. (A multilingual, determined poet.)
The rift between the King and his Musketeers continues.
I may not have mentioned them, but assume the usual delirium at Tom Burke’s voice, all their faces and the palace interiors.
That Spanish lackey to the ambassador was HOT. I am delighted he is also appearing in the next episode at least.
Variety explains why The Lego Movie wasn’t nominated for best animation (via
misbegotten). (World still thinks that the animation branch of the Academy is no fun).
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/151857.html.
2.3 The Good Traitor
An episode of varying Spanish accents, some threatened silliness overtaken by many developments.
Revelations about Rochefort’s feelings about the Queen (mine are that i kind of liked the black velvet four-poster bed).
Did anyone care about that statue? Ah well, at least Tariq told them all to stand back.
I liked his daughter, Samira, for her feistiness when we first met her.
Fatherhood has turned Aramis’s brain to mush (except when Porthos is in danger). Sadly, Athos didn’t pick up on this, although his 'this is madness' looks and lectures haven't had much effect anyway.
But the fight in the marketplace was well done, even if the outcome was nearly all predictable.
Follow your instincts, Constance! Not the ones that lead to annoying the King. I saw nothing to disprove my theory that D’Artagnan wants to be making babies with her.
I squeed when Milady the player brushed past Rochefort the player as they intrigued their separate intrigues. If he didn’t recognise that at the moment, he did eventually.
Oh, Samira, I know your opinion was formed by the Spanish treatment of you and your father and other Moors, but when it comes to race and self-identification, LISTEN to what someone (Porthos) is telling you about who he is and who he chooses to be. His story is not yours.
Loved Charles’s little grimace at her probe about what part of Africa his mother came from (our Spanish poet maybe didn’t also consider that class is a factor in all this.)
Darling, brave, foolish Constance, couldn’t you have sneaked a really big kettle from the kitchen for your commoners’ remedy? (I didn’t realise the guy playing Bonacieux was played by Miranda’s not!Gary suitor. Huh.) Bonacieux really doesn’t know his own wife.
I am sad that they are making Anne so distraught she’s stupid, although we are seeing how vulnerable she is at court, but that she didn’t notice Rochefort’s ‘I love you’ slip...Interesting weakenss for someone who is otherwise so comfortably arrogant. (In him, I mean.) It’s all piling up into an interesting villain.
Milady played the king spectacularly and I started wishing Gage was also cast in something where he gets to play a little subtler and be awarded for it.
I liked how the two plotlines were strong enough on their own and, apart from Aramis’s worry, only intertwined in the King and Rochefort.
Poor Constance, that moment where she and Milady crossed paths!
Tariq ended up being a noble Moor, and I was glad the racist soldier got his (mega destructive!) comeuppance, although I kept thinking it would turn out that Samira would know more about the cipher than we thought, even until half way through her leave-taking of Porthos. But nope, just a poet. (A multilingual, determined poet.)
The rift between the King and his Musketeers continues.
I may not have mentioned them, but assume the usual delirium at Tom Burke’s voice, all their faces and the palace interiors.
That Spanish lackey to the ambassador was HOT. I am delighted he is also appearing in the next episode at least.
Variety explains why The Lego Movie wasn’t nominated for best animation (via
misbegotten). (World still thinks that the animation branch of the Academy is no fun).
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/151857.html.