The Good Traitor
Of course Rochefort has a pervy bed. Of course he does.
Rochefort pays his whores up front, clearly we've been misjudging him.
You'd hope the guard on the garrison gate would be at least vaguely competent. Oh no, wait, this is the Musketeers we're talking about.
Tariq has taken against Treville's beard, and is determined to shave him. Frankly, I don't blame him.
So if Tariq didn't spot Athos and d'Artagnan when he entered Treville's room, where the hell were they? Under the table?
Athos seems to have more hair than usual in this episode. Either that or he's just rolled out of bed like that. I like it.
This show really does have the most random approach to accents.
My main problem with this plot is the whole thing's based around recovering the cipher machine to decrypt the encoded gunpowder formula. But Tariq *knows* the formula, doesn't he? When he cops it at the end, they all go "well at least the Spanish haven't got it either lol". Implying he was the only one who knew it. Did he have to run the recipe through the machine every time he wanted to make a batch, then promptly forget the ratios again or what? The whole thing makes no sense. Screw getting the machine, you've got the inventor.
Is Athos wearing eyeliner again?
At least the Red Guards on duty at the palace are as shit as the Musketeer guards on duty at the garrison, letting random women in that easily. See also: the guards that let her through to run after the King later.
Ah, quackery. At least the baby didn't wail all the way through this, I shall be thankful for small mercies.
"I was born the wrong colour. An issue you may be familiar with."
Not that this script is at all heavy handed, nooooooo.
"Loyal Morse." Wait, what, I thought it was a cipher code. Oh, Moors. Gotcha.
Aaaand Aramis is sneaking off again. Heeeeere's Daddy!
"I sometimes wonder who benefits from your marvellous plan, is it Spain or is it just Rochefort?" Heh.
Ooh, is Marguerite a wrong 'un? Presumably this will be used to excuse Aramis' treatment of her.
Time to look shifty in the marketplace.
The carrot harvest has been particularly good this year.
Oh dear, Aramis is getting distracted by random babies. It's a shame he's not a professional, oh, wait. (Why doesn't one of the others shoot Balthazar instead? I mean if that was the plan, then Porthos is right there, and Athos and d'Artagnan aren't that far away.)
Is it a dick in a box? Oh, dung, nice.
"Get the Musketeer!" (Why *do* they take Porthos? It's not like they need another hostage, and he's wounded, he'll slow them down. Maybe they just fancy him. It's understandable.)
Is Athos fighting someone off with a baguette?
I think Athos shooting someone through the table was my favourite moment of this ep.
*sexy!Athos!lean klaxon*
Samara: "Is there much demand for one legged Musketeers? Not that you were much more use with two." Ouch. XD
Samara: "Are you in pain?"
Porthos: "Yeah. A little bit." *collapses*
Samara: "If you decide to die? Please. Do it quietly."
I did quite like Samara, but her constant harping on about how Porthos shouldn't think of France as his home really started to grate after a while.
Samara: "Would you like to hear some poetry?
Porthos: "I'd prefer a brandy."
So that's now two women who've had to tear up their skirts for bandages this series XD
That's right, bite on this. *sniggers*
Constance is baby!napping. Does the palace not have a laundry?
Milady: "I have something for you sire."
Louis: Puppies! Er, I mean, ooh, my ring, how nice. *coughs*
(Would have been funny if she'd pulled out the queen's diamond pendant by mistake. Oops, sorry, wrong necklace sire XD)
Ah, the old seduction by praying technique. From the book?
Has this baby got a name yet?
Eww, Louis and Milady doing the nasty under the table. Anne doesn't look terribly surprised, I guess that crack about searching the brothels in the last episode was more pointed than it seemed.
Porthos: "My leg hurts. Someone's gonna pay for it. Make sure it's not you." <3
So last season we started the series with a run of killing off all the female guest stars, this year it seems to be the black ones...oh dear.
Love Constance's WTF? face when she sees Milady.
That's a nice building. It'd be a shame if something was to - happen to it.
Oh how convenient, a couple of hours in a laundry has cured the baby. (I guess you could say that's that problem ironed out then...)
Nice of the doctor to credit Constance though.
Also is that Margeurite? I thought she'd been slung in pokey?
Samara: "It will be my children's home. They will belong there." What, as opposed to the way you're arguing Porthos doesn't belong in France, despite being half French and born there?
Well, that was all a bit meh on the whole. Again, felt like not nearly enough of the Musketeers in it, too much focus on side characters I'm not interested in. I didn't actively dislike it (although I'm nervous about the way the series seems to be building towards misery-drama rather than adventure-drama, do not want) but it was certainly my least favourite episode to date. Although yes I have just sat up till 2am re-watching and screencapping, so it can't have been that bad XD
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Rochefort pays his whores up front, clearly we've been misjudging him.
You'd hope the guard on the garrison gate would be at least vaguely competent. Oh no, wait, this is the Musketeers we're talking about.
Tariq has taken against Treville's beard, and is determined to shave him. Frankly, I don't blame him.
So if Tariq didn't spot Athos and d'Artagnan when he entered Treville's room, where the hell were they? Under the table?
Athos seems to have more hair than usual in this episode. Either that or he's just rolled out of bed like that. I like it.
This show really does have the most random approach to accents.
My main problem with this plot is the whole thing's based around recovering the cipher machine to decrypt the encoded gunpowder formula. But Tariq *knows* the formula, doesn't he? When he cops it at the end, they all go "well at least the Spanish haven't got it either lol". Implying he was the only one who knew it. Did he have to run the recipe through the machine every time he wanted to make a batch, then promptly forget the ratios again or what? The whole thing makes no sense. Screw getting the machine, you've got the inventor.
Is Athos wearing eyeliner again?
At least the Red Guards on duty at the palace are as shit as the Musketeer guards on duty at the garrison, letting random women in that easily. See also: the guards that let her through to run after the King later.
Ah, quackery. At least the baby didn't wail all the way through this, I shall be thankful for small mercies.
"I was born the wrong colour. An issue you may be familiar with."
Not that this script is at all heavy handed, nooooooo.
"Loyal Morse." Wait, what, I thought it was a cipher code. Oh, Moors. Gotcha.
Aaaand Aramis is sneaking off again. Heeeeere's Daddy!
"I sometimes wonder who benefits from your marvellous plan, is it Spain or is it just Rochefort?" Heh.
Ooh, is Marguerite a wrong 'un? Presumably this will be used to excuse Aramis' treatment of her.
Time to look shifty in the marketplace.
The carrot harvest has been particularly good this year.
Oh dear, Aramis is getting distracted by random babies. It's a shame he's not a professional, oh, wait. (Why doesn't one of the others shoot Balthazar instead? I mean if that was the plan, then Porthos is right there, and Athos and d'Artagnan aren't that far away.)
Is it a dick in a box? Oh, dung, nice.
"Get the Musketeer!" (Why *do* they take Porthos? It's not like they need another hostage, and he's wounded, he'll slow them down. Maybe they just fancy him. It's understandable.)
Is Athos fighting someone off with a baguette?
I think Athos shooting someone through the table was my favourite moment of this ep.
*sexy!Athos!lean klaxon*
Samara: "Is there much demand for one legged Musketeers? Not that you were much more use with two." Ouch. XD
Samara: "Are you in pain?"
Porthos: "Yeah. A little bit." *collapses*
Samara: "If you decide to die? Please. Do it quietly."
I did quite like Samara, but her constant harping on about how Porthos shouldn't think of France as his home really started to grate after a while.
Samara: "Would you like to hear some poetry?
Porthos: "I'd prefer a brandy."
So that's now two women who've had to tear up their skirts for bandages this series XD
That's right, bite on this. *sniggers*
Constance is baby!napping. Does the palace not have a laundry?
Milady: "I have something for you sire."
Louis: Puppies! Er, I mean, ooh, my ring, how nice. *coughs*
(Would have been funny if she'd pulled out the queen's diamond pendant by mistake. Oops, sorry, wrong necklace sire XD)
Ah, the old seduction by praying technique. From the book?
Has this baby got a name yet?
Eww, Louis and Milady doing the nasty under the table. Anne doesn't look terribly surprised, I guess that crack about searching the brothels in the last episode was more pointed than it seemed.
Porthos: "My leg hurts. Someone's gonna pay for it. Make sure it's not you." <3
So last season we started the series with a run of killing off all the female guest stars, this year it seems to be the black ones...oh dear.
Love Constance's WTF? face when she sees Milady.
That's a nice building. It'd be a shame if something was to - happen to it.
Oh how convenient, a couple of hours in a laundry has cured the baby. (I guess you could say that's that problem ironed out then...)
Nice of the doctor to credit Constance though.
Also is that Margeurite? I thought she'd been slung in pokey?
Samara: "It will be my children's home. They will belong there." What, as opposed to the way you're arguing Porthos doesn't belong in France, despite being half French and born there?
Well, that was all a bit meh on the whole. Again, felt like not nearly enough of the Musketeers in it, too much focus on side characters I'm not interested in. I didn't actively dislike it (although I'm nervous about the way the series seems to be building towards misery-drama rather than adventure-drama, do not want) but it was certainly my least favourite episode to date. Although yes I have just sat up till 2am re-watching and screencapping, so it can't have been that bad XD
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