The Count of Monte Cristo

[RumplesGirl]

Tonight we met Edmond Dantes, also known as the Count of Monte Cristo. Did he fit well into the story? Did you enjoy seeing him? Anything you would have preferred seeing or wish you knew?

[TheWatcher]

He was interesting. I didn’t expect him to die, but wow. I am not familiar with his story so idk that I expected anything but overall I like his character and actor a lot. Wouldn’t mind seeing him okay.

I also like that they killed him. Can’t get a happy ending all the time. 🙂

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[Matt]

I also like that they killed him. Can’t get a happy ending all the time.

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Yeah, I think they really needed to kill him off to show that there is a very real possibility that some of these untold stories won’t just be neatly resolved with a pretty bow. It raises the stakes a little too!

[thedarkonedearie]

I thought he was boring.  He fell in love with a hand-maiden we had never heard of until now and basically serves as the hunter for Regina.  She hires someone to kill Snow White, they back out in the last moment.  He was whatever but I sort of expected that.  His fight with Regina was good and I’m glad it wasn’t the Count himself doing.  I liked it was the EQ manipulating him.

[MatthewPaul]

Looks like he’s from a world called Fictional 19th Century France:

I love the Evil Queen's french flourish. I want to see more of her adventures in Fictional 19th Century France

— Andrew Chambliss (@AndrewChambliss) October 3, 2016

As for how Regina got there, she should theoretically have possession of Jefferson’s hat by that point, so that’s a possibility.

[RumplesGirl]

Oh Jeremy will love that. So are we to assume that we basically have a world for every century in every nation? Stories were always being written or told so there must be a world for every time period and place.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[MatthewPaul]

Oh Jeremy will love that. So are we to assume that we basically have a world for every century in every nation? Stories were always being written or told so there must be a world for every time period and place.

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I’m guessing 19th Century France is also the original home of the Three Musketeers. They were even written by the same author, Alexandre Dumas. Perhaps also the Phantom of the Opera?

[RumplesGirl]

RumplesGirl wrote:

Oh Jeremy will love that. So are we to assume that we basically have a world for every century in every nation? Stories were always being written or told so there must be a world for every time period and place.

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I’m guessing 19th Century France is also the original home of the Three Musketeers. They were even written by the same author, Alexandre Dumas. Perhaps also the Phantom of the Opera?

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Maybe but does it go by the author’s time period or the book’s time period? Dumas wrote 3Muskeeters in the 1840s but it’s set in the 1620s.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Slurpeez]

The writers should stay away from classic literature. They didn’t seem to understand the original coplex characterization of Edmond Dantès. To A&E, he’s just another misunderstood swashbuckling anti-hero with an English accent (which is strange since Edmond is supposed to be French).

I also thought it was really strange that he would be in a Land of Untold Stories. I don’t understand how no one seems to have heard of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I know the library was boarded up during the first dark curse, but I expected at least Belle to have heard of or read that novel, what with her being a librarian, bookworm and a walking, talking version of Google. She had read The Wizard of Oz for crying out loud!

Poor Henry doesn’t really seem to know about classics and so assumed Edmond would be in a book about fairytales. Talk about the SB school system failing its citizens. Has nobody in that town ever taken a world literature course? Probably not, since it doesn’t seem like anyone in that town ever went to university since Archie got his psychology degree from a curse. (Probably only Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Whale, who were both scientists in their lands, got some sort of higher education).

I just found it strange that nobody, except for Henry, even questioned if Edmond was in a book, to which Edmund replied “You won’t find me in there, my boy. I’m not important enough to have my own tale.” Is that a set up? Are we eventually going to see that all the characters who lived in A Land of Untold Stories actually already have their tales told in A Land Without Magic?

If so, what does that mean for Edmond since he died and his story finished differently from the way it did in Dumas’ classic novel? Does that mean the original manuscript of The Count of Monte Cristo changes, too? Where are the original manuscripts located — in the special reading room in the NYC public library or in the sorcerer’s mansion? I have so many questions, but sadly I don’t think A&E have answers to provide. That was probably the only time we’ll ever see Edmond.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[thedarkonedearie]

I also thought it was really strange that he would be in a Land of Untold Stories. I don’t understand how no one seems to have heard of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

I believe they gave their “ouat spin” on it as they would say.  He was in the land of untold stories because it was the only way to save the hand maiden he became fond of.  So Rumple sent him there and he explained his story stopped right then when he left.  So as the writers said about all the other characters, you think you know the story but that’s not exactly what happened.  So this is just another example of that.

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