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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote2014-01-20 12:22 am
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Musketeers and pirates

Oh look. A new take on The Three Musketeers.



Musketeers was fun. I liked the depiction of Paris in 1630--filthy, rough, dangerous. I liked the whinybaby portrayal of Louis XIII. I liked the jokey spirit (which is really quite true to the original), and I didn't hate Peter Capaldi's Cardinal Richelieu. I mean, I did hate him, as one must, because a more villainous villain doing villainy because he's just plain villainous has rarely ever been written.

I can't decide how I feel about the female characters so far: the source material doesn't provide a huge amount to work with (but then the source material doesn't imply that Porthos is a person of color either, and yet the show manages to make that alteration beautifully, so, you know, selective hewing to "historical accuracy" and whatever).



Anyway, it was fun and I enjoyed it and it has huge fannish potential (as attested to by a flood of Tumblr posts today), and I'll probably watch the next two eps. It's certainly wonderfully filthy and muddy and harsh and the locations are gorgeous and the costumes: so much leather OMG.



No, I didn't watch "Black Sails". It's just...the system is forcing me into piracy, I swear. With the best will in the world and waving money around, I cannot buy the audiobook of Broken Homes, Ben Aaronovitch's fourth Peter Grant novel. It's been out in the UK for many months, but "due to geo-restrictions" (or something) Audible.com can't actually sell it to me--or even let me put it on my wishlist.



Seriously, Audible, and publishers, and whatever corporate intellectual property bullshit concerns: you can't give me books 1, 2, and 3 of a series then withhold book 4 and expect me to just wait like a good girl. So please don't expect that.
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[personal profile] kis 2014-01-20 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
You forgot to mention that d'Artagnan has very pretty hair. :)
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[personal profile] kis 2014-01-20 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
I like to get straight to the core message of a show.
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[personal profile] kis 2014-01-22 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
:D