agnes_bean ([personal profile] agnes_bean) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2012-08-11 03:02 pm (UTC)

Yeah, for the first 3 books he is one of the (IMO, and plenty seem to agree with me) most sympathetic (relativley, anyway), funny, smart, and interesting POV characters. The event this secret refers to is at the very end of Book 3. It is a crime of passion and I really think many people could have gotten past it, but in Book 5 (he's not in 4) he went off the grimdark deep end. He did way more horrible things, which turned a lot of people off. On top of that, his POV just got way darker, more twisted and, to many, less interesting or entertaining.

OTOH, if people do still want him redeemed after ADWD (I'm torn on this issue), its mostly because they spent 3000 pages rooting for him. That's hard to let go.

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