A Shift in Perspective

So as often happens, I’verecently experienced a random train of thought.

Over the past few months, the BBC have been showing a series called “The Musketeers”. It has got some people very hot under the collar, as they’d been expecting a Pride-and-Prejudice-like faithful adaptation of the Dumas classic. What they got was more of a Merlin-like romp which pays lip service to the original, but otherwise is a shameless excuse for swords, guns, fight scenes, ladies in posh frocks, Peter Capaldi as a...