YES! I didn't imagine the whole thing was in the book did I? It has been years since I read the book, and I couldn't decide if I was making it up or if I was actually right.
The following is going to be a difference in POV once more XD. I don't dislike the Count Ala Anime version. In fact more often than not I can emphasize with him; his drive for revenge won’t bring him happiness and he knows it. Destroying people’s lives won’t bring back what he had, what he was, but at the point (in the anime) he could not do anything else. It was either get his vengeance, or let everything he was for the past 20 years go for nothing, and well, the Count always did seem to be very arrogant.
In relation to his hate for Albert because of the latter’s innocence, I can understand why; here is Albert, all innocence and happiness, everything that the Count isn’t (and might have had the opportunity to be… actually, more like, here’s the boy that might have possibly being your son, IF.) To have someone so innocent from a union that he hates, and then to see what he himself is now; well, I guess I can see why he did everything.
The thing is; I doubt rational thinking was part of it when we finally got to Franz’s death. Anger, despair, and this deep gaping nothingness for vengeance would have been the main drive. And while I can’t say it is right (LOVE FRANZ!) I can understand why he did it, and I would love to say if I was in his position I would have done differently, but the point is; betrayal, anger, add god knows what Gankustuou was doing to the Count’s mind; well, it works for me.
I admit the book was awhile ago, but I do distinctively remember the love for Eugenie, and more than a bit of indifference for the Count, which probably why resulted in lots of my dissatisfaction with the novel. If I can’t love a main character I can’t enjoy a text as much. Format wise, I prefer a style where nothing is ever told but shown in bits and pieces, and more often than not I adore inferring from hints in text, I find it to be a stronger way of story telling, then again, personal taste.
P.S. Was it just me, or did Fernard look like 100% hotter than Edmond in the flashback scenes?
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The following is going to be a difference in POV once more XD. I don't dislike the Count Ala Anime version. In fact more often than not I can emphasize with him; his drive for revenge won’t bring him happiness and he knows it. Destroying people’s lives won’t bring back what he had, what he was, but at the point (in the anime) he could not do anything else. It was either get his vengeance, or let everything he was for the past 20 years go for nothing, and well, the Count always did seem to be very arrogant.
In relation to his hate for Albert because of the latter’s innocence, I can understand why; here is Albert, all innocence and happiness, everything that the Count isn’t (and might have had the opportunity to be… actually, more like, here’s the boy that might have possibly being your son, IF.) To have someone so innocent from a union that he hates, and then to see what he himself is now; well, I guess I can see why he did everything.
The thing is; I doubt rational thinking was part of it when we finally got to Franz’s death. Anger, despair, and this deep gaping nothingness for vengeance would have been the main drive. And while I can’t say it is right (LOVE FRANZ!) I can understand why he did it, and I would love to say if I was in his position I would have done differently, but the point is; betrayal, anger, add god knows what Gankustuou was doing to the Count’s mind; well, it works for me.
I admit the book was awhile ago, but I do distinctively remember the love for Eugenie, and more than a bit of indifference for the Count, which probably why resulted in lots of my dissatisfaction with the novel. If I can’t love a main character I can’t enjoy a text as much. Format wise, I prefer a style where nothing is ever told but shown in bits and pieces, and more often than not I adore inferring from hints in text, I find it to be a stronger way of story telling, then again, personal taste.
P.S. Was it just me, or did Fernard look like 100% hotter than Edmond in the flashback scenes?
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