• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Some gamboheads wished death and suffering to the actor that played Tyrion, so some don’t. debord-tired

      It gets even weirder when some pieces of shit use the pretense of acting to be pieces of shit, such as Justin Roiland getting drunk and abusing and creeping on people to “get into character.”

      EDIT: I think I meant Joffrey, not Tyrion. Been a while since I had to unwillingly absorb gambo slop by proximity, thank goodness.

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        Yeah the gambo thing is the first place my brain went seeing the post. Can’t believe a bunch of dumb psychos chased a talented actor out of the profession.

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              And imagine that in show he’s portrayed somewhat more positively than in books.

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                Tyrion? Yeah. Tyrion is very whitewashed in the show with many of his flaws from the books removed to be more of an explicitly heroic character.

                Joffrey? No. He’s somewhat flanderized in the show, though I think part of that is Jack Gleason just being that good at acting that he makes him more hateable than ever. But monsterous acts that dont happen in the books happen in the show. And the sympathetic background of him being a product of abuse isnt really gone into as much in the show.

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                  Not Tyrion, Joffrey. A lot of people talking about him being a monster in the book got cut in the show just as most of his random acts of madness and cruelty, they left only those that have direct impact on the what remained of the plot in show. He also had a moment of two where he came in close distance to touching the grass to which he didn’t came close even if we count in AU in the book. And the only act of random cruelty they added in the show was to murder the most boring and needless filler character which actually greatly improved the show.
                  Also i never said he was sympathetic, he wasn’t. Just in the show he was only 75% of crazy monster he was in book, so maybe better words would be “not as horrible” than “more positively”.
                  About Gleeson… i don’t know. He played him great, but his appearance was all wrong, he supposed to look and keep the official behaviour like prince charming from the fairytale (at least when he was watched over, and it wasn’t just Sansa opinion), though even short acquantaince with him shattered this illusion fast. But in the show he even looked like the inbred maniac he was.

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    On the DVD commentary of Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” (1960), the screenwriter laments during one scene that Americans sometimes don’t understand the difference between an actor and the character they play, and then further laments that America elected a “second rate actor” as president (referring to Reagan).

    I’ll see if I can find the video.

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    They’re fans. It’s short for “fanatic,” isn’t it?

    Fandoms can be toxic and horrible, especially at their fringes. I wouldn’t say they weren’t “true” fans as much as they were toxic chud fans, which tend to roll around some franchises in particular like pigs in shit.

    For example, it’s hard for me to enjoy 40k much of the time if I’m out in the general fandom public and have to hear blue curtained enthusiasm for space fascism and its associated death cults. debord-tired

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    Oops made a duplicate thread and then saw this.

    Yeah, this is unhinged and upsetting. But I absolutely saw it coming because Abby’s voice actress got harassed too. People hate Abby to such an absurd extent.