The Musketeers premiered on BBC One on 19 January 2014 and ran from 2014 to 2016, with a total of 30 episodes.
Inspired by Alexandre Dumas' novel, it starred Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, and Luke Pasqualino as the four loyal swordsmen in 17th-century France, who fight for justice and protect the King and Queen from various threats.
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Athos ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Aramis ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Porthos ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ D'Artagnan ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
"I'm looking for Athos!"
"You've found him."
"My name is d'Artagnan, of Lupiac in Gascony. Prepare to fight. One of us dies here."
"Now, THAT'S the way to make an entrance."
– 1x01 Friends and Enemies
The series blends historical drama,
action,
intrigue,
and humour,
with a healthy serving of family,
romance,
and plenty of friendship,
brotherhood,
and swashbuckling goodness!
"I want… Athos and his friends… silenced for good."
"Musketeers don't die easily."
– 1x10 Musketeers Don't Die Easily
⚜️ Thanks for an amazing show! ❤️🔥⚜️
"Look to your left, now your right... A Musketeer is never alone, Brujon.
Remember that."
– 3x03 Brothers in Arms
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*My thanks to all the amazing gif makers for the lovely gifs!
Treville: Gentlemen, how were your duels...why are there four of you now?
Athos: This is D'Artagnan. I've only had him for an hour and a half, but if anything happens to him I'll kill everyone in this room and then myself.
Treville: Wasn't this the man you were going to duel?
Athos: Well, you see, he was polite...
Aramis: And then we were interrupted by the cardinal's men...
Porthos: And D'Artagnan fought one of them even though they offered to let him go...
Athos: Not to mention that he came to my aid at a most opportune moment.
All three together: So we decided to keep him. We can keep him, right?
D'Artagnan: *hopeful face*
Treville: *facepalms*
I really like the Inigo Montoya-style entrance D'Artagnan makes in the Musketeers series, but I do rather mourn his introduction to Les Inséparables as it was handled in the initial novel. It's just something so... hilarious? in-character? absurd?
I mean, the man legitimately just runs along a stretch of road and, in the process, pisses off no fewer than three Musketeers. And, most notably, the three Musketeers that happen to be the best of buds.
And then all three show up to the dueling site and they have their own version of that Spiderman meme:
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“This is the gentleman I am going to fight with,” said Athos, pointing to D’Artagnan with his hand and saluting him with the same gesture.
“Why, it is with him I am also going to fight,” said Porthos.
“But not before one o’clock,” replied D’Artagnan.
“And I also am to fight with this gentleman,” said Aramis, coming in his turn onto the place.
“But not until two o’clock,” said D’Artagnan, with the same calmness.
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Again, nothing against the show because I'm very fond of it, but I do rather miss the hilarity of this scene.
Hey, @ecle-c-tic @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen I consider us “The Inseparables” aka the musketeers (don’t know if you guys watched the show but this is what I think of whenever we’re online together 😊) we just need a fourth haha :)
I'm rereading The Three Musketeers, and I've decided that each of our heroes is from a different genre, which is part of why they work so well together and part of why D'Artagnan finds Aramis and Athos so confusing.
D'Artagnan, of course, is living in a romantic swashbuckler and perfectly fitted for it.
Porthos is too, except his has more of burlesque about it than romance.
Aramis is living in a political thriller, with action interludes courtesy of his friends.
Athos is an escapee from a 1920s silent tragedy film who somehow wound up in an 18th century novel.
Athos is such a madlad and I love him so much for it. Like, I feel like it's really easy to view him as "the sensible one" because in many ways it's true, but I keep having to remind myself that him having main custody of les Inseparables' singular brain cell does not, in fact, mean that he always has it. This man apologizes to the kid who disrespected him (and, thus, is about to try to kill him in a duel) for being as good with his left hand as with his right (thus making him more unpredictable) because he's at more of an advantage. And then there's the time he held a pantry hostage for twelve days, insisting that his valet be brought in with him, and then they both set about eating and drinking as much as was humanly possible until the host of the place was so desperate to get them the hell out of there that he welcomes the furious d'Artagnan back with open arms and greets his "YOU KEPT HIM IN THE CELLAR FOR TWELVE DAYS?!?!!" with "No, actually, we want him out; keep up"