• milkisklim@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    To be fair, in the book the three musketeers were always Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. D’Artagnan joins the group and becomes their companion later on.

    Should the book have been named the Four Musketeers? Probably. But hey, it’s French.

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      7 months ago

      I figure the title is meant to be interpreted as “D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers”. He’s the main character and the book is about his adventures with them. What does bother me is the total lack of muskets.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not sure where you get your information but I’m pretty sure their names are Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. Pluto was just a dog in that movie.

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      7 months ago

      It’s about D’Artagnan’s journey to becoming a Musketeer, so calling it 4 Musketeers would be Spoilers! A better choice would be “The 3 Musketeers and I” which my old brain is hinting may have been the title of some film version…

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          7 months ago

          Ah, I haven’t read the other two. I actually didn’t even know they existed until you told me just now. But for the first book he’s definitely just a friend of the Musketeers until the very end.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      7 months ago

      Because he wasn’t actually a musketeer (not until the very end anyway). He was friends with the musketeers, but was basically just a regular guy off the street. A musketeer was some kind of position in the military/royal guard or whatever. He didn’t hold that position.