[ SECRET POST #2047 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2047 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Penn & Teller]


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[Twilight]


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[Prometheus]


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[Rainbow; the Boondocks]


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12. [SPOILERS for walking dead]



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13. [SPOILERS for portal 2]



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14. [SPOILERS for ASOIAF/game of thrones]



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15. [SPOILERS for the dark knight rises]



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16. [WARNING for abuse]



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17. [WARNING for rape]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #292.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ], [ 1 - insulting the readers doesn't help ], [ 1 - come on, a LITTLE effort ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...He didn't pay her. She is not a prostitute, she is a slave and he paid her owner. At no point she could have refused to have sex with him and she was obviously in distress - Tyrion noticed how dead her eyes looked and she was crying her eyes out when he forced himself on her the second time after throwing up on the expensive carpet (which she would be most likely beaten for). What he offered her doesn't matte at allr, because as you say yourself, she didn't even understand him and even if she could take him up on that offer (did she have a blade? would he really have let her kill him? could she have overpowered him if he started resisting?) she wouldn't make it past the door.

[darkmanifest]

Why...do people like this character so much?

I mean, I can enjoy a complex and tragic character while still wanting him to ultimately burn in hell for being an awful person, but it seems like people want him to, I dunno, get better and live happily ever after or some shit.

[(Anonymous)]

If people are only watching the show then it hasn't gotten to that point yet and these scenes don't happen until the fifth book it sounds like. I'm only on the third so for now he's still pretty likeable.

It's unfortunate to hear that his character takes such a disgusting turn later on.

[darkmanifest]

Ah, the worst atrocities are pretty recent, that makes sense, thanks.

[agnes_bean]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

...Who? Most the people here aren't saying much good about him, and I haven't seen much about *wanting* him to get better. The closest I've seen has been 'maybe he'll change for the better' - and that seems to come from the fact that the series seems to twist characters to hell and back than it does anything else.

[darkmanifest]

He seems like a pretty popular character, from what I've seen in most ASOIAF discussions and articles. Enough so that I'm surprised he's actually so awful. But I could have gotten that wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

He's one of the most likable & reasonable characters in the show right now. I'm pretty surprised his character takes such a turn in the books because he seems pretty (comparatively) decent in the show.

[(Anonymous)]

It'll be pretty interesting to see what the show does with his character. His relationship with Shae in the show is more loving than in the book, and Shae is a bit of a better person with more of a history (like in the book when Tyrion finally awakens from nearly getting killed in the battle with Stannis the first thing Shae does is ask about her dresses and her jewels and when she'll be able to wear them again or something. I couldn't fucking stand Shae after that).

In the show Tyrion may not go as dark as he had in the book, especially since he is such a popular character.