Oh my God, this is so canon. Mostly. But they seem to have missed a couple of opportunities that are hilarious in the brick.
and yes, she leaves him her handkerchief! How terribly 19th century.
In the book, it's VJ's handkerchief, and Marius moons over it to hell and back, not realising that it doesn't belong to Cosette at all. And he names her 'Ursule' because of the U, not realising that VJ is going under the alias Ultime Fauchelevent. And may I say, 'Ultime' is a fucking badass name.
All the aliases - completely canon. As is the harshness of the convent, which is the subject of a whole interesting tirade in the book, on the harshness of religious practice. Which VJ obviously uses to realise that his suffering is nothing compared to those poor women. *pats him* I find it weird that J gets into the convent at all, though. It's strictly 'no men allowed' in the brick, but I suppose dramatic licence is called for.
And wtf, VJ not still having the candlesticks? That's insane. He'd never be without them. Also wtf - Javert arresting Thenardier? That's weird. He doesn't do it until the incident at the Gorbeau tenement in the brick. Ah, I should stop comparing them. Different interpretation, and all - and they have to keep it alive on the screen, and have all the characters interacting.
I'll be interested to see what you make of Javert's interactions with the students tomorrow, given what I have heard about them from other sources. Canon divergence again - but hey, might be no bad thing.
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and yes, she leaves him her handkerchief! How terribly 19th century.
In the book, it's VJ's handkerchief, and Marius moons over it to hell and back, not realising that it doesn't belong to Cosette at all. And he names her 'Ursule' because of the U, not realising that VJ is going under the alias Ultime Fauchelevent. And may I say, 'Ultime' is a fucking badass name.
All the aliases - completely canon. As is the harshness of the convent, which is the subject of a whole interesting tirade in the book, on the harshness of religious practice. Which VJ obviously uses to realise that his suffering is nothing compared to those poor women. *pats him* I find it weird that J gets into the convent at all, though. It's strictly 'no men allowed' in the brick, but I suppose dramatic licence is called for.
And wtf, VJ not still having the candlesticks? That's insane. He'd never be without them. Also wtf - Javert arresting Thenardier? That's weird. He doesn't do it until the incident at the Gorbeau tenement in the brick. Ah, I should stop comparing them. Different interpretation, and all - and they have to keep it alive on the screen, and have all the characters interacting.
I'll be interested to see what you make of Javert's interactions with the students tomorrow, given what I have heard about them from other sources. Canon divergence again - but hey, might be no bad thing.