Oh...crud.

Holy crow! That's Paul McGann as the mincing, shrieking fop in the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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Well, my stumbling across my old MITIM poem has led me to re-watch the movie itself, which has led me to look at the '93 The Three Musketeers again, which is leading me to think, hey, there's a reason I went through a Kiefer Sutherland phase in the first place.

(Er, yeah. If the 1998 MITIM movie is a guilty pleasure, then the Sutherland/Sheen/Platt Musketeers is so guilty it's practically convicted. I am filled with shame.)

History's repeating itself. While waiting for MITIM to hit video (I had no DVD player in '98), I got antsy for all things Musketeers and checked out the '93 version just to take the edge off. (I know, I know. But I'd gone through the books and several other versions and was pretty desperate.) It wasn't until near the end of the movie that, out of the blue, I went from zero to smitten in one second flat by a guy whom I'd been unmoved by for the past hour and a half. Can't tell you why. Brain finally kicked in, I suppose.

After that there was nothing for it but to rush to IMDB and scour the library and movie places for all things Kiefer. I even went so far as to re-watch Young Guns II, a movie I'd seen years earlier and absolutely loathed. It wasn't much better the second time around, but at least this time I knew eye-candy when I saw it. I managed to sit through the first Young Guns, too. And for a while I dabbled in Kiefer/Lou fandom, which, at least at the time, wasn't RPS; it was merely shorthand for slash pairings of characters played by/based on KS and Lou Diamond Philips (it's funny to think that back when the fandom was named, RPS was so out of the question that this name wasn't confusing).

Right. Where'd I put my copy of Renegades...?

More fall TV schedule musings...

Well, I may check out...er, that new law enforcement drama set in Hawaii that NBC's got for fall. Good lord, I must've seen the promos for that show 78,365 times during the Olympics and I still can't remember what it's called. I think I saw it so many times that I actually grew numb to it.

Anyway, it's got Michael Biehn, which is my sole reason for tuning in. Plus--if this series succeeds--I'm boggling at the number of Without a Trace x-over fics it's likely to spawn.

More fall TV schedule musings...

Well, I may check out...er, that new law enforcement drama set in Hawaii that NBC's got for fall. Good lord, I must've seen the promos for that show 78,365 times during the Olympics and I still can't remember what it's called. I think I saw it so many times that I actually grew numb to it.

Anyway, it's got Michael Biehn, which is my sole reason for tuning in. Plus--if this series succeeds--I'm boggling at the number of Without a Trace x-over fics it's likely to spawn.