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Post by tpal2150 on Aug 8, 2011 0:54:15 GMT -5
As the author of the highlander crossover in question, I can tell you that the line you're referring to (where the captain says that he 'fails to see the resemblance' between Jacqueline and her father) was just something I latched onto as a means of introducing the 'foundling' backstory highlander fics tend to require. But as for the notion that Jacqueline might not actually be a Roget by birth, I believe that was actually suggested by the series finale, when Gerard returned the cross and mentioned something about a priest recognzing it and a story that would 'change her life.' He never got the chance to expand on that (if he even knew the whole story in the first place), but the general consensus seems to be that the 'life-changing' story has something to do with her parentage.
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Post by sue on Aug 8, 2011 2:45:09 GMT -5
I always sort of wished they had made the time to expand on that...the "life changing" piece. Everything else was tied up pretty neatly.
Yeah...I liked that story.
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Post by jeantre16 on Aug 9, 2011 22:38:05 GMT -5
You and everyone else wished there were more than 13 eps, sue.
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Post by tzigone on Mar 14, 2015 17:46:00 GMT -5
I doubt anyone cares at this late date, but I put the characters in their early 20s even if Musketeers were usually younger, historically speaking. I think the norms of 2005 are at least as important as the norms of the 17th century, and so the characters needed to be grown. Also, if that age, Jacqueline wouldn't be an "old maid" even at the time. Nobility tended to marry young, but peasants later. The average age of first marriage for a woman in France in the 17th was 22 (http://eml.berkeley.edu/~webfac/eichengreen/Dennison.pdf - page 8). For north France, it was 25.3. On the whole age at first marriage was younger at the start of the century and kept increasing.
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