#elo mate...the old guard

Yesterday before sleeping I read the entire story of the first book of The Old Guard and then because I couldn’t wait I read all the second tome except for the 5th part of it who happens to be the end. 

I actually loved it, and it made me regret for a moment that the adaptation is a film instead of a show but at the same time I’m okay with it. I loved everything about it and the idea of these beings, these people who lived and died so many times through a large amount of time and how it’s wearing them down, the psychological effects of it is incredible. 

I watched the movie today and I’m okay with most of the changes, what happen to Quynh is actually worst than what happen to Tomiko in the books and weirdly I’m okay with that change, even if I do believe the two situations can end with the same consequences.

I liked how they made Nile question a little more the situation she’s in and not choosing to get with the group by default but because she wanted to be with them and could understand who they were. I know some people were annoyed by her but to me, it made sense, she wasn’t being complicated or difficult for nothing, it was realistic. 

The twist about Andy at the end of the movie put me off a little, I’m not fan of that change. 

Booker...tssssssssssss...but it made sense...in a way like he was alone while Andy had partners before and then Nicky & Joe have each other since the beginning. I really hate disloyal people and I don’t want to give them any benefice of the doubt or excuses but I do understand his pain and why he did what he did and I feel it’s also because he thought maybe Andy would understand him. I loved when she told him in the books how she didn’t want to die, just a reason to live, I really wanted to have Charlize say the same thing to Matthias in the movie instead of “not this way”. The fact the screenwriter is the comic books writer makes me accept the changes more easily because the heart of the story is still there.

Nicky & Joe, I have nothing to add, everyone is already saying what I feel about them. I absolutely love their story and the fact they have been together for 900+ years, they started the after life together in hatred for a second of their existence and live the rest of it just loving each other and it’s beautiful. This is how romance should be portrayed in general, the subtlety when it needs to be and the love declaration when it should be said, oie oie oie, my feels.

I prefer the comics villain more than the movie villain but in both cases I’m really into both stories and ending. Even if I feel they should have killed the doctor in the movie like in the comics but I understand why they didn’t. 

randoms thoughts 

While watching the movie, I wondered if the “Immortals” might connect with a few of them like the Sense8 cluster except they’re not specifically 8. Like there would be other “Immortals” in the world connected with each other but not with the Old Guard we know, it would be quite interesting.