She has over time learned that the only way to survive forever is to never let mortals get too close to her. The story is set in the present day, but Andy’s birth predates the ancient Greeks. Andromache of Scythia, has been alive long enough to know this better than anyone. But it’s really about the aching loneliness of being a killing machine who can never die. The Old Guard, Netflix’s newest blockbuster, is actually multiple love stories in a big action flick coat.īased on the 2017 comic book written by the indomitable Greg Rucka and drawn by Leandro Fernandez, The Old Guard is ostensibly about a group of killing machines who can never die.
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