Swagger Inn: Thread 87. BBC Musketeers - roll on Friday. Close your eyes and avoid the spoilers... sodding programmers.

[SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp]

As you were wenches... The bar is stocked up, the chaise is re-covered and ready for action, and all we have to do it... er. Wait until Friday.
Arse.

Yep one hour later, yeah brunch sounds good

Morning wenches.

Hope you enjoyed the rewatch Chaise - sounds like you did, and who wouldn't? I'll be rewatching at work during lunch. Should keep me going through the day.

Shortly off to my mum's and then taking DS1 to his sportingactivity.

Enjoy your days you wonderful wenches x

Pics on Twitter thanking the U.S. Fans for watching!
Well....
Thanks for that ??

Hi wifey, how are you?

I saw that Baddz. Another kick in the teeth for us!

For all who want to see then but don't wat to go to twatter...

One more...

And for team Aramis..

Hi all

What I asked was:

1. When do we think porthos will get a love interest? And why none up to this point?

1. Did anyone think porthos was fit in last episode?

Assumed he must have fans in the tavern. I thought the accused was a good episode for him. Did it please his fans?

Morning. OK, need to catch up on last few pages on here....but I can see I have 27 Twitter notifications and I'm terrified to click on it.

OK. This is it. Think of me fondly wenches etc etc.

Morning everyone

Feeling a bit stiff this morning and am quite tempted to just lie in the sun like the cats all day. This won't help me deal with the ironing mountain though. I wonder if I can sneak off with Aramis again, for a lower back & thigh massage this time, to see if that loosens me up?

LAst of my pics allowance - believe this is a new pic...

Well we already knew what we think of their UK fans Badders
i.e. nothing.

AHEM Fancy.

^LEATHER JACKET. KLAXON KLAXON

Christ almighty.

And that makes me very happy to see he's back to the 'full Aramis'.

I have spent all morning watching, re-watching, rewinding etc. to the snog.

I love Anne in this episode: she is brilliant, I love how she says "you dare to defy me"
and then also she says to Rochefort, when he calls her 'madame', she says said "you will address me as your Majesty".
I just think she's brilliant in this episode.

For next week, The finale, they do actually show the clip of the executioner swinging his sword down on to Constance, so, one has to assume that Dog is going to pop up at the last last second, to save her, right? we have to assume that right?

Chaise we assume nothing from the trailers.....

Off now to take DS out to cinema. (To prove that I do, sometimes. That makes it twice now. In 6 years. )

I just smacked a US fan on twitter for posting the most revealing spoiler so if I come up on your timeline ignore

Have just read Red Scharlach. Agree, not as funny as she usually is but I didn't think it was negative at all.

Also - YY to slurpy snog. It was. I did post on Fri night that it wasn't pretty. Hot, yes, but odd.

I wonder how many takes they actually do.

You ain't seen me.... Right?

Just my take on these photos...

1. Tom has at least the good manners to be stony faced. Oh how I love him.

2. ref BBC America in general. Yes to us it does seem rubbish that they get the finale before us etc and seem to get attention and promo. As I see it though, much of this is because they have a thorough understanding of how competitive the market is in the US and that you have to play the game. So they've got a proper PR making them do photos and messages, and they've also clearly had a discussion where they've said 'we are not interrupting the schedule again because of some piddly sport or charity event' 'otherwise the series will lose viewers and it'll ruin it' 'so no we are running it whatever, fuck you BBC in London'. Now, I don't blame them for that decision - that is the right thing for them to do. The big fault here is our Beeb with the stupid scheduling, and JP, Colin and Adrian frankly need to get political in terms of whom they're talking to on promo and scheduling. Ie not in the new British drama trailer, rubbish promo etc. They need to find whoever is doing the Poldark stuff and employ them. Because this is the problem.

End of rant.

Retires to kitchen.

Was that Comtess?... can't be. She's in the kitchen

Update. The US fan has just responded to my tweet apologising and saying that she thought we had seen the finale already. She assumed they are behind. Clearly not a regular tweeter or she'd have seen it all over twitter!

Bless... she didn't seem genuinly sorry and hopefully will pass message on to her fellow fans!

Do we think Santi pointing at his sign, is thinking, "WTF is Tumblr?"

I'm looking forward to ep 6 tonight, the ep with the beaks Can't wait for the Milathos scenes, Maimie is so awesome

I do think we're being controlled by the American market now. I think, and I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, that the US set when their new season would start, Saturday 17th January. If we had started at the same time as last year on the Sunday, we would have been a day behind them all along, so the BBC had to fit us in where they could and the only available night was Friday 16th.

Then they realised that there would be two breaks for sport, so we had to start a fortnight earlier, on Friday 2nd January. There was no room for any decent promotion before our start because of all the Christmas stuff. Then because of Comic Relief they were shafted for the last two episodes because the US wouldn't delay, and indeed why should they?

I think this is the thin end of the wedge and we will be dictated to regarding scheduling and content for S3. Indeed, as we have said, the content is already less 'adult' than we would have expected for a post-watershed show.