[ SECRET POST #3180 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3180 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it was frustrating that Constance was supposed to *believe in love* and hook up with D'artagnan during/immediately after her marriage to Bonaciux, and D'artagnan was a total dick about the whole thing.

I never really quite grasped what the show was going for: on the one hand, it let Constance spell out in very clear terms that she a) wasn't ready, and b) had to protect her reputation, and yet ultimately the narrative seemed to side with D'artagan.

Even weirder: that Doctor Lemay understood Constance's hesitation when he proposed (saying that perhaps it was too soon after her husband's death) AND the entire season revolved around how tenuous the Queen's reputation was.

Talk about moral dissonance.

[(Anonymous)]

Especially since we simultaneously had Marguerite's storyline going on, which drove home the point as to how important a woman's reputation was, and how devastating ruin. Marguerite - who btw deserved better than to be used and lied to - was so scared of what even the rumours (since she, unlike Constance, did not make out with her lover in public) would do to her and her family that the threat of reveal was enough to blackmail her into treason, which ultimately led to her suicide. What was the point of letting us see her desperation and struggle if we weren't supposed to sympathise with her story and see it as the cautionary tale that justifies Constance rejecting love in favour of reason?

Related, my headcanon for why there are no guests at the wedding safe for a few musketeers is that Constance' reputation is in fact ruined to the point where people cross the street to avoid her and her family has disowned her. Sorry, but she made out with her lover in public, said lover probably murdered M. Bonacieux (he literally had his blood on his hands, still fresh, when he told Constance of his death, and I as a random gossipy judgemental Parisienne am supposed to believe that wild story about a royal assassin? sure Jan.gif), and they got married before the soil on poor late Bonacieux's grave had even settled.

And building on that, of course the French nobles at court have no love for Anne. She insulted, humiliated, and disrespected them by picking this lowly merchant's wife for her lady in waiting rather than giving the position to someone of appropriate standing and political value. And she did it at the behest of some soldier (who is buddies with who later turns out to be *her* lover), so he could commit the crime of adultery with his married lover. This decision of Anne's lacks even a hint of political savvy ad makes her seem like a thoughtless, loose-moralled fool. Of course the French despise the Spanish queen, don't want her to have any influence at court, and think she herself is quite capable of sleeping around with a soldier, too.

The show can't on some occasions point out Constance and Anne's complicated situations and how they are bound by social conventions and political requirements of their time and positions, and then at other times blithely ignore all the implications and consequences their actions and behavior should be expected to have in that society.