AncalagonTheBlack Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Previous topic archived. The Musketeers series 3 will be the show's last Quote BBC One's The Musketeers will draw to a close with a third and final series, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. A third series was first announced way back in February 2015 - but it has now been confirmed that the next 10 episodes will bring the swashbuckling show to an end. "Season 3 of The Musketeers completes this 30-hour series with ambition and energy," said executive producer Jessica Pope. "It is packed with action and adventure, fun and drama from the very first opening seconds of episode one to the very end. "It is a season that will delight its fans and pay off everything they have come to love about the show. Bigger in scale and more serialised than before, it has been real privilege and a joy to produce such a fabulous piece of entertainment for the BBC." The final series of The Musketeers will pit our heroes against a new roster of villains - including the the corrupt Governor of Paris, played by Rupert Everett. The Musketeers will be back on BBC One later this year - with Alexandra Dowling, Ryan Gage, Tamla Kari, Hugo Speer and Maimie McCoy also returning to the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veltigar Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I'm sad they are cancelling this. It was by no means the best show in the world, but I would have liked to see at least one antagonist sticking around for more than one season. Alas, we'll never get that now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 2 hours ago, Veltigar said: I'm sad they are cancelling this. It was by no means the best show in the world, but I would have liked to see at least one antagonist sticking around for more than one season. Alas, we'll never get that now I get the feeling that after they lost Capaldi to Doctor Who they made a deliberate decision to have Marc Warren only on for one season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 I adore this series. Yet, yah, 3 seasons is enough for this phrase at least. Dumas did keep the stories going over several periods. I'm so glad there are 3 seasons though, and not only 2. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 Season 3 trailer and clips out today. The Musketeers: Series 3 Trailer Into the Spanish battlefield - The Musketeers: Series 3 Episode 1 Preview War, villains and reuniting - The Musketeers: Series 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 It looks splendid! Spain and France (and England and everybody else too) clashing in the Low Countries -- I've read Dumas's volume that has our friends there, and the Altriste novel set there as well. This looks as good as the fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkash Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 First three episodes are quite good indeed ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 10 minutes ago, Arkash said: First three episodes are quite good indeed ! O you lucky person you! I will have to wait for the dvds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 That looks better than I expected. I was a bit disappointed with the second season, but given how that trailer I'll probably give it another chance. And since it's ending it's not like its that big of a commitment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Anyone else been watching this series? (Spoilery remarks follow!) I've been enjoying it. Since the second series, I've given up on the hope of it doing anything especially deep and meaningful, and just enjoyed it for what it is: swashbuckling, brainlessly barmy entertainment with perfect hair. And that's just fine. Albeit the urge to stop letting the side down and rush off to a hairdresser is sometimes so powerful that I can barely concentrate on the fights. I do wish they'd send the scripts via a few script editors just to spice them up a bit. The writers can sometimes come up with a surprisingly good one liner, and the character concepts can seem quite promising initially, but seem to peter out without being properly exploited. Or else they can't a character from A to B with convincing smoothness. Feron, for example. Overall, I think he worked quite well, and I appreciated Rupert Everett, who managed to be just OTT enough to suit the drama. But giving him one generally nice moment of interaction with Louis at some point in the previous five episodes might have been a good idea. I'm quite surprised to find that there are still four episodes to go, given that the villain clef is looking rather thinned out. At least, this indicates the writers should have enough space to wrap things before the musketeers hang up their sabers and severely reduce their personal beautification regimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 I watched all of it. It was okay, but as you say, you have to enjoy it for what it is and not try to make it into something it's not. Soooooo many bad decisions by the characters just to advance the plot though, and that seemed much more pronounced than in the first two seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 8 hours ago, RedEyedGhost said: I watched all of it. It was okay, but as you say, you have to enjoy it for what it is and not try to make it into something it's not. Soooooo many bad decisions by the characters just to advance the plot though, and that seemed much more pronounced than in the first two seasons. Yeah, Treville especially often seemed to end up holding the Idiot Ball. On the bright side, I think Louis has been managed quite well. I love Ryan Gage in the role - he's one of the consistently best things in the series - and the character is still petulant and hopelessly selfish enough to be an acceptable continuation on the Louis of series one and two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkash Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 There was a moment this season (towards the end but no spoiler) where Louis (on the throne) rolls his eyes, checks if the Queen has seen him roll his eyes, and re-rolls them when she watches... that was a very short shot, but damn, it made me giggle for the whole rest of the episode ! Ryan Gage was on fire this season ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 I earnestly disagree with characterizing Musketeers as brainless. It's anything but brainless -- particularly with the manners -- a variety of manners -- in which they handle the period's institutions of slavery, the slave trade and racism. Considering the author Dumas's own background, this is also a tribute to the brilliant fellow (and his San Domingue man of color father who was a great general and destroyed then by Napoleon when he came to power for the very reason that he was black) who created the musketeers in the first place. Also the way the show handles the gender issues within its historical period context. That speech of Constance's in the second season in which she counters D'Artagnan's accusation that she's a coward for not leaving her husband and being 'free' to live a life of adventure with him is brilliant. Another way of putting it is this is a world class production all the way around in every aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 6 hours ago, Arkash said: There was a moment this season (towards the end but no spoiler) where Louis (on the throne) rolls his eyes, checks if the Queen has seen him roll his eyes, and re-rolls them when she watches... that was a very short shot, but damn, it made me giggle for the whole rest of the episode ! Ryan Gage was on fire this season ! Lol, yes - and there have been many more moments like that. Just doing a tumblr search makes me crack up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 1 hour ago, Zorral said: I earnestly disagree with characterizing Musketeers as brainless. It's anything but brainless -- particularly with the manners -- a variety of manners -- in which they handle the period's institutions of slavery, the slave trade and racism. Considering the author Dumas's own background, this is also a tribute to the brilliant fellow (and his San Domingue man of color father who was a great general and destroyed then by Napoleon when he came to power for the very reason that he was black) who created the musketeers in the first place. Also the way the show handles the gender issues within its historical period context. That speech of Constance's in the second season in which she counters D'Artagnan's accusation that she's a coward for not leaving her husband and being 'free' to live a life of adventure with him is brilliant. Another way of putting it is this is a world class production all the way around in every aspect. I'm very much behind The Musketeers well-intentioned progressive casting choices, and social values, which I agree with. Developing a Porthos based on Dumas's father stands out as being a particularly deft move. The general pro-feminist, pro-minority, vaguely socialist ethos make it a nice show to watch. It's fluffy. Its writers are probably very good people. It is very suited to the broadcast slot it occupies on Saturday evenings, when people want something to help them recover from the previous week and fortify them for the week ahead. However, it is what it is. A repetitive adventure story with good guys kicking the arses of the bad guys every episode, short dialogues for short attention spans, little complexity and ambiguity, and a status quo that, though highlighted as being frequently unfair and cruel to anyone not in the upper reaches of show-land 'France', is more reassuring than not to the audience, who see it ultimately sustaining the action and giving status and security to the four protagonists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Again I must disagree. Particularly in season 2 there are quite few non-upper class stratum figures foregrounded. This is particularly so in the episode that features the Joan d' Arc like prophetess and her quite lower class followers who wish to force the monarchy to destroy Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Great episode last night, I thought. Love the way Treville finally became effective and played the sides off against each other. The slo-mo spoilery death at the end was rather cheesy in its execution, but the death that the episode kicked off with was done very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Spoilers, btw. Anyone caught the finale? I was lukewarm about it. I wish that Peter McKenna (responsible for Season 2's An Ordinary Man, and Season 3's Death of a Hero) or perhaps Dusty Hughes (the writer for the penultimate episode The Prize) had been given the job instead of Simon Allen. The fates of our heroes pleased me - somewhere I'd seen it predicted that Aramis would change his name to Mazarin and take over from Richelieu as éminence grise - the show didn't go so far in the end as to make our boy assume a pseudonym and don a red gown, which was the right choice, but it gave a strong nod in that direction for those, like me, who wanted to see it. And I was delighted that Porthos didn't follow Dumas fiction at all, but Dumas reality, as a doppelganger of General de la Pailleterie. (Fingers crossed he avoids the untimely death in poverty, mind.) But it was basically a very simplistic episode. There's a evil psycho on the loose, and the musketeers gotta kill him. Seen it before.(Season 2 plus episodes in other seasons). I suspected it would head that way again this time round for awhile, but I was hoping that the chase might be padded out with political goings on - the question of the regency, for example. It wasn't. Overall I'll probably remember this show for Ryan Gage's Louis XIII, for Mamie McCoy as Milady. ("I have an important decision to make...dagger or pistol?" Not original, but damn, that had style.) Perhaps also for the historically-inspired tweaks given to Porthos's backstory. There was too much hugging, and undeserved emoting - the episode sometimes fell into the trap of trying too hard to be touching, and ended up almost parodying itself. Pity, because there were moments when it really could be affecting - Porthos talking to Aramis, for example - "Was Treville always just your commanding officer?" Wish the episode had been able to do that more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkash Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 I really wish they gave more time to the relation between Porthos and what's her name (it was a cliché French name IIRC... Laetitia ? Delphine ?), cause it felt a little forced... and I really wanted him to find some happiness, but not that poorly written. Otherwise I kinda enjoyed the finale but I saw it like two or three months ago, I should rewatch some bits of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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