Thank you for this write-up! I really need to brush up on my French Revolution. Hopefully I'll still have time after I finish the current draft of Peter Keith.
It really feels like the scriptwriters treating MA/Fersen as an obligation they need to get through and keep to the absolute minimum.
I see they have not been reading their Zweig! He would teach them how to ship those two. ;)
Point taken about them wanting MA/Louis as their OTP, though.
(Rohan: no notes. I think he's the rare character who is basically the same in any take on this story, at least I have yet to meet a version that doesn't go for "'he had it coming".
Hahaha.
MA does something which manages to be very selfish and very selfless at the same time when she is worried about Polignac, sure her beloved (in that movie, definitely not just a platonic favourite) is in serious danger, and sends her away despite knowing she might never see her again and thus lose her love for good. (Poor Lamballe and Fersen do not exist in this movie.) But the way MA saves Polignac is by asking her reader to change clothes with her, and that she takes her reader's loyalty for granted and evidently sees this woman's life as expendable, as opposed to Polignac's, is the "very selfish" part of the equation and makes a point about the system without any exposition needed.
Wow, yes, that's very three-dimensional.
Sorry for the brevity, real life plus Peter Keith are calling!
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Re: Marie Antoinette (TV Series, Second Season)
Date: 2025-06-07 11:02 pm (UTC)It really feels like the scriptwriters treating MA/Fersen as an obligation they need to get through and keep to the absolute minimum.
I see they have not been reading their Zweig! He would teach them how to ship those two. ;)
Point taken about them wanting MA/Louis as their OTP, though.
(Rohan: no notes. I think he's the rare character who is basically the same in any take on this story, at least I have yet to meet a version that doesn't go for "'he had it coming".
Hahaha.
MA does something which manages to be very selfish and very selfless at the same time when she is worried about Polignac, sure her beloved (in that movie, definitely not just a platonic favourite) is in serious danger, and sends her away despite knowing she might never see her again and thus lose her love for good. (Poor Lamballe and Fersen do not exist in this movie.) But the way MA saves Polignac is by asking her reader to change clothes with her, and that she takes her reader's loyalty for granted and evidently sees this woman's life as expendable, as opposed to Polignac's, is the "very selfish" part of the equation and makes a point about the system without any exposition needed.
Wow, yes, that's very three-dimensional.
Sorry for the brevity, real life plus Peter Keith are calling!