The Female As Male Thing Never Worked

It's all done tongue-in-cheek, so try not to think about it too much and have fun. I think this show is aimed at 11 year olds, but it also works on the adult level, if you get all the jokes (like the old Batman tv show)


some need to go up 1 or down 1:
http://us.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=10088562

Maybe, but they DID do a good job making the Prince Louis character look like a girl trying to be a guy.............................

Actually, the idea isn't that farfetched if you think of it in terms of the time period the characters were supposed to be living in. Historically, people in that period had no concept of what a woman would look like wearing pants instead of a dress. In other words, anyone wearing pants in public was generally assumed to be male unless proven otherwise. And effeminate-looking men weren't that unusual in that period either, especially among the upper classes. So 'Jacques'' comrades probably just figured that he was one of those types. In fact, in "The Girl from Upper Gaborski" (one of the extended scenes from the dvd version, actually), Jacqueline tells D'Artagnan that she claimed to be a nobleman when she enlisted because noblemen 'look like women.'

So, even though the audience (and D'Artagnan) know that 'Jacques LePonte' is really a woman, it really isn't that hard to believe that the other characters would assume otherwise if you put yourself in the mindset of 17th-century Parisians.

Well, that's my two cents, anyway.

This is also the show that cast a white guy to play the writer of 3 Musketeers.

There are a number of women who passed as men throughout history but you're talking about logistics and pretend flirting to maintain such a facade.

That said, I think class trumped gender roles. Louis XV agreed to let the Countess of Brionne serve as Grand Equerry until her son was of age.