#vibertspierre

Since it's my birthday, it's time for another Vibertspierre picscpam. Because Ronan Vibert was the one who brought me to the French Revolution. And since it's a huge picspam, it won't fit in one post.

Here is the first part. All the screencaps are from the episode A Good Name of the Scarlet Pimpernel series (2000).

"Listen to me, Chauvelin. The Committee of Public Safety is now the real government of France, and I control it. Succeed in this, and you could become a man of power again."

Damn, don't you love when alternate and entirely fictional history becomes the "real" history people believe in? I think this series needed a disclaimer because Anglos are too dumb.

I also absolutely love how he had the whole CSP wait in the hallway/staircase BEFORE GETTING IN THE CSP ROOM AND STARTING THE MEETING because he was GETTING A SHAVE. In the CSP meeting room. No one does it like Poodlespierre.

Here is the second part. All the screencaps are from the episode A Good Name of the Scarlet Pimpernel series (2000).

Those episodes are absolute bore-fests that can be thus summarized:

People walk back and forth

There's an ongoing mob carnival bearing torches and dancing around the guillotine

The boat that sails from England to France and vice-versa should get its own credit because it shows up more than Poodlespierre

Everybody is appparently willing to work with that fucking Smugface Buffoon Pimpernel

Absolutely no one but the Dirty Mob (TM) and Bloodthirsty Whores (TM) are revolutionaries in Revolutionary France

No really the misogyny is almost as bad the homophobia

Marguerite is a proud specimen of the Strong Female Characters of the 1990s: she does absolutely nothing and needs to be rescued

The entire second episode is set in the Vendée which is Absolutely Dreadful In Every Fucking Way

There sure is a lot of balls *yawn*

And that's it? It's just extremely boring. Those episodes are 90 minutes long each and nothing happens. There's barely any terrorsploitation.

I did enjoy the Evil Guillotine Earring-Waring Woman Who Terrorizes the Vendée (like she's gone completely rogue) from the second episode who roundhouse kicked a kneeling priest with her giant skirts getting in the way. I absolutely need a gif of that. It was worse than a fight scene in Star Trek TOS.