Musketeers
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sgatazmy Anyone here still watching the Musketeers? I'm half way through season 3 and I'm starting to really get into it now.
The writing is improving and the stakes are raising. I love the characters more each episode and I'm excited that they seem to be heading toward the Fronde (civil wars before the revolution). I love how each of the Musketeers are starting to question which side they are on.
In the books, Athos and Aramis choose to fight with the Fronde while Porthos and D'Aratagnan fight for the king. It comes together when the boy king is kidnapped by the Fronde. They discover they are on different sides during a fight. They come together in a meeting to discuss it and it almost breaks out in more fighting. Athos brings them together saying they may work for different sides but they are friends until the end. It's one of my favorite scenes in Twenty Years After. I may have to go read it right away! Yup, just read it again from my very old version of the book:
"Athos, at that moment, extended his hand with the air of supreme command which characterized him alone, drew out his sword and the scabbard at the same time, broke the blade in the sheath on his knee, and threw the pieces to his right. Then turning to Aramis:
'Aramis,' he said, 'break your sword in two.'
Aramis hesitated.
'It must be done,' said Athos; then in a lower and more gentle voice, he added, 'I wish it.'
These proceedings made D'Araganan and Porthos draw back. D'Artagnan did not draw his sword; Porthos put his back into the sheath.
'Never! I swear before God, who seeth us, and who in the darkness of this night heareth us, never shall my sword cross yours, never my eyes cast a glance of anger, nor my heart a throb of hatred, to you. We lived together, we loved, we hated together; we shed, we mingled our blood together....' "
I can't express how much I love that scene.
I don't think they'll do this at all in the series. If anything, they seem to be working to have D'Artagnan and Athos work with the Fronde but I don't think there will be infighting among the Musketeers.
The writing is improving and the stakes are raising. I love the characters more each episode and I'm excited that they seem to be heading toward the Fronde (civil wars before the revolution). I love how each of the Musketeers are starting to question which side they are on.
In the books, Athos and Aramis choose to fight with the Fronde while Porthos and D'Aratagnan fight for the king. It comes together when the boy king is kidnapped by the Fronde. They discover they are on different sides during a fight. They come together in a meeting to discuss it and it almost breaks out in more fighting. Athos brings them together saying they may work for different sides but they are friends until the end. It's one of my favorite scenes in Twenty Years After. I may have to go read it right away! Yup, just read it again from my very old version of the book:
"Athos, at that moment, extended his hand with the air of supreme command which characterized him alone, drew out his sword and the scabbard at the same time, broke the blade in the sheath on his knee, and threw the pieces to his right. Then turning to Aramis:
'Aramis,' he said, 'break your sword in two.'
Aramis hesitated.
'It must be done,' said Athos; then in a lower and more gentle voice, he added, 'I wish it.'
These proceedings made D'Araganan and Porthos draw back. D'Artagnan did not draw his sword; Porthos put his back into the sheath.
'Never! I swear before God, who seeth us, and who in the darkness of this night heareth us, never shall my sword cross yours, never my eyes cast a glance of anger, nor my heart a throb of hatred, to you. We lived together, we loved, we hated together; we shed, we mingled our blood together....' "
I can't express how much I love that scene.
I don't think they'll do this at all in the series. If anything, they seem to be working to have D'Artagnan and Athos work with the Fronde but I don't think there will be infighting among the Musketeers.
