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Musketeers
Feb. 28th, 2014 08:40 amAnyone else watching the BBC Musketeers series? I've seen hardly any talk about it online.
I was a huge fan of the book series when I was 11 or so, but they made it very clear that this series wasn't an adaptation of the books, but an episodic TV series loosely based on the characters and setting. It therefore gave me exactly what I was expecting, and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. There's no hint of fannish obsessiveness, but I look forward to each new episode, which we both happily heckle and enjoy very much.
I love the jolly theme tune. I think all theme tunes should include a chorus of rowdy Musketeers shouting "HEY!" in the background. It is, however, annoyingly earwormy. What is it about Musketeer-inspired TV shows and earwormy theme tunes? (Note that I am now moving swiftly on before mentioning the notorious worst offender, lest it haunt the ears of my readers for the rest of the week.)
Some of the newspapers reviews amused me. The reviewer in one dignified broadsheet was very sneery about the liberties it had taken with the original story, chief of which seemed to be that Athos got drunk (SHOCK!) and Aramis had affairs with married women (HORROR!). Dumas would be shocked, shocked, he said, thus proving that he has never read the book in question. It reminded me of all those A Song of Ice and Fire "book purists" who were utterly outraged that the TV series had made Renly and Loras gay, and were convinced that GRRM would be equally horrified at this change made to canonically straight characters.
And the historical setting isn't quite as bad as a published edition of the book I came across a few weeks ago. It was a very simplified retelling for children, and the first sentence was something like, "In the year 1678..."
Ooh, half my icons have vanished. They claim to be there, but aren't. I wonder where they've gone...
I was a huge fan of the book series when I was 11 or so, but they made it very clear that this series wasn't an adaptation of the books, but an episodic TV series loosely based on the characters and setting. It therefore gave me exactly what I was expecting, and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. There's no hint of fannish obsessiveness, but I look forward to each new episode, which we both happily heckle and enjoy very much.
I love the jolly theme tune. I think all theme tunes should include a chorus of rowdy Musketeers shouting "HEY!" in the background. It is, however, annoyingly earwormy. What is it about Musketeer-inspired TV shows and earwormy theme tunes? (Note that I am now moving swiftly on before mentioning the notorious worst offender, lest it haunt the ears of my readers for the rest of the week.)
Some of the newspapers reviews amused me. The reviewer in one dignified broadsheet was very sneery about the liberties it had taken with the original story, chief of which seemed to be that Athos got drunk (SHOCK!) and Aramis had affairs with married women (HORROR!). Dumas would be shocked, shocked, he said, thus proving that he has never read the book in question. It reminded me of all those A Song of Ice and Fire "book purists" who were utterly outraged that the TV series had made Renly and Loras gay, and were convinced that GRRM would be equally horrified at this change made to canonically straight characters.
And the historical setting isn't quite as bad as a published edition of the book I came across a few weeks ago. It was a very simplified retelling for children, and the first sentence was something like, "In the year 1678..."
Ooh, half my icons have vanished. They claim to be there, but aren't. I wonder where they've gone...
