The Musketeers: "A Rebellious Woman"

[ravenya03]

It’s the inevitable girl power episode. And it’s awesome.

Comments

[tigercheetah]

Re-D'artagnan and Constance's moment of passion, you're right that it was too soon for viewers but it wasn't too soon for the characters themselves, so I was quite happy to overlook that and it was beautifully played as you say. With D'artagnan living in Constance's house for several months now - with some of that time spent alone, when you consider how often Constance's husband seems to be away - their simmering attraction was bound to boil over at some point, though I think Constance's attraction to him has been more obvious than his attraction to her until now. I think the passion came about because whilst they've both been developing feelings for each other, neither of them realised how the other felt. You can imagine Constance's heart almost beating out of her chest when she realises that this handsome man loves her, her eyes seemed really big in that scene.

I loved Athos's moment of madness in court over Milady ( that was real emotion right there ) and all the stuff with the Cardinal being poisoned. We're supposed to 'boo hiss' over this character but in reality, he's quite good fun.

[ravenya03]

I agree regarding D'artagnan/Constance (in that they've been in each other's vicinity for a while now), but I think a lot will now depend on how the remaining episodes handle it. I get the feeling that the writers decided to release the hand-brake on the two of them specifically because Milady is once more about to enter the picture (thus adding complications to who D'artagnan owes his allegiance to).

Tom Burke is fantastic. He and Charles Howard just *become* Athos and Porthos in a way I never could have expected (not to leave Santiago out of the equation, but still don't think I've seen enough of his Aramis to consider him the definitive version *just* yet).