Swagger Inn Thread 108: Swords at the ready? Musketeering a go-go.

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Welcome to Thread 108 of rampant objectification and plot discussion perving over BBC Musketeers and any other HBFs that take your fancy

Pull up a bar stool, be polite to mother superior and she may get you the dirnk of your choice.

There will be a roll call once all wenches are back from their summer hols.

And the perviness of Rochefort was downright creepy. If I want to watch unhinged pyschopaths obsessing over women and killing people I'll watch gritty crime dramas, god knows there's enough of them. Whereas there are not enough shows featuring hbf's in leather being all FAF.

By eck that were tight fun. (No idea why I went all Yorkshire there) I do like mass rewatches though.

Yes Liv Cardinal = complex, Rochefort = Pantomime (even though he tried not to be by giving him spurned love obsession as a motivation)

That episode as A Good Soldier are my favourite Cardinal episodes!

Excellent. Who wrote that ep I wonder? Probably the best dialogue there (cardinal's) in the whole show I reckon.

Ep 8 next week - not my fave tbh.

Unfortunately the spurned love just made him appear completely batshit!

I hope the S3 villain is a little more subtle!

Excellent fun, especially good to have so many wench teams represented - means there's thud in every scene!

fancy - word.

On the plus side you'll also get lots of Trev and shouty Athos next week.

Agreed, so mnay good lines in that ep, esp from Cardinal. I suppose we get Capt Trev being all noble next week?

Right, must go & have a shower, am feeling rather grubby after all my earlier exertions!

Shouty Athos. Alley snogging. Athos and Dog bonding. Trev action. Petulant Kingy. Dog getting his pauldron.

How is this not one of your favourite episodes?

Gah - Inconvenient Cat is sure that the best place to put his head is on the touch pad of my laptop. Whilst purring loudly.

You read my mind again helen!

Absolutely - I'm glad he became the Doctor (being a fan of him AND Doctor Who) but they really need to do better in S3. Rochefort was a hottie but the whole psycho bit is very off putting! There was literally nothing good or decent about him and one dimensional characters are always crap.

And this thread is top of the trending list atm!

Of course it's trending - we're wittering on and need a new thread. Someone else can do it this time.

Spots the lack of the word Aramis in my last post....

Rupert Everett is the baddy in S3 is he not. I'm not sensing subtle tbh.

MrsB I don't think I've ever seen Ruper Everett not being camp, so it will be interestin

Bea That's what I'm thinking too. It was difficult to replace an actor like PC anyway but they don't seem to have tried very hard.

Next week we have the Cardinal biting his thumb though - that and Dog's pauldron are the best bits

Er, yep mrsb, got it in one.

Marc Warren did psychotic really well, but they didn't give him much else to work with really. With Pc he was a baddie, but he was working for the good of France as he saw it, so wasn't always trying to foil the HBFs. MW was a baddie because he wanted to get Queenie, end of. there was no other dimension.

Ok, I'm off to bed now - night all.

And I know the Cardinal probably shouldn't have had Adele shot but he thought she was a spy and she betrayed him so he thought he was doing the right thing and she did shag Aramis despite being the mistress of the sexiest man in France

I would offer to start the new thread but I probably wouldn't be able to resist posting it with a pic of PCap's arse or something

I saw RE as Salieri in Amadeus last year at Chichester, and he was surprising good, and, when required, subtle so I am holding out hope.

Plus there's thingy who was the clockmaker in Larkrise, and training sergeant in the Our Girl pilot, can't remeber his name, but isn't he playing a Parisian underworld baddie?