Musketeers and pirates
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darkemeraldsOh 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.
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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Re: Up, Cardinal! Down, Queen!
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20/1/14 20:40 (UTC)Elizabeth Was King, Now James is Queen
20/1/14 20:45 (UTC)King James the Bible Guy definitely had lots of boyfriends, including the Duke of Buckingham, I'm just not sure if it was the same Duke of Buckingham, but I believe it was.
Re: Elizabeth Was King, Now James is Queen
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