Okay, I'm sold

[elspethdixon]

We are approximately 5 minutes in the Musketeers pilot. Porthos is currently dueling a guy with a fork (Porthos has a fork. The guy has a sword, and is, I presume, about to lose humiliatingly).

Prior to the fork duel, there was an extended "Athos gets ready in the morning" clothing porn scene.

I'm officially sold.

(Porthos has goofy waxed moustaches and is showboating allover the place <3 <3 <3 I haven't seen Aramis yet, but since he's played by Santiago Cabrera he ought to be almost as pretty as he's supposed to be.)

Comments

[elspethdixon]

Their clothes are so pretty! I would almost be willing to just watch footage of the clothing and firearms for an hour. (They actually use muskets, which is weirdly rare for a three musketeers adaptation. And at least in the first episode, the writers appear to remember that the guns can only fire one bullet. And oh my god, the interrogation scene, with Porthos and Aramis double-teaming the guy :) :) :) I can see that my ships are all going to have good fodder in this version, including Athos/Milady and d'Artagnan/other people's spouses)

My one complaint is Milady being a brunette when I always imagine her as blonde.

[muccamukk]

Did you see the clip of Peter Capaldi just fucking around with his giant cape? He's having a lot of fun.

The musket thing continues, as far as I've seen. At one point Aramis fires his pistol, and then is absently reloading in the next scene, which enables him to fire it again later. So there seems to have been a memo about the one shot thing.

Once you've caught up, there's a kink meme: bbcmusketeerskink.

I'm pretty sure she's blonde in the books. So that took a little getting used to. She's great though.