[Gormenghast Trilogy] Dear Titus...
Series: Gormenghast Trilogy
Character: Titus Groan
Warnings: Spoilers for the second two books.
Summary: Just how are you the hero again?
Dear Titus,
I tried not to be a fanbrat and side with Steerpike, I really did. I told myself that your bland personality in the movie version was due to the failings of th actor. You were adorable as a kid, and even in the second book I overlooked your defects and accepted you as the hero. And then I read your solo book, and all my sympathy vanished.
You're supposed to be the hero of this series. But just what have you done that's heroic?
Killing Steerpike? Okay, I'll accept that was necessary, even if it was mostly luck on your part. But screw heroism- have you even done one remotely good thing since then?
No, you haven't. You've just treated everyone like crap because you can't get over leaving a place you didn't even LIKE.
In fact, let's go back to the second book, when your childhood crush dies by random lightening after you practically rape her. At least in the movie you had the decency to be sad about it. But in the book, you're HAPPY, because this means your childhood is over! That goes beyond cold- that's bordering on the sociopathic!
And what do you do after you finally leave Gormenghast? Do you actually take the time to discover a new world, the way you set out to do? No, you spend the whole time whining about having left! Despite the fact that you're supposedly ugly and obviously a jerk, everyone you meet loves you, or else they become insane and evil because you don't love them back. The one woman you actually had a connection with, you abandon after a night of sex because you 'don't want her pity.' And she still saves your ungrateful ass, along with her new boyfriend and another man who friggin' DIES FOR YOU.
And after you've put everyone through hell because ou can't get over Gormenghast, what do you do when you come back home? You leave again! Just no pleasing you, is there?
I'll accept the fact that the third book isn't as good because the author was going insane at the time. You, however, are a dick.
More than that, you made me miss Steerpike. He was an even bigger bastard than you, but at least we weren't expected to think of him as a good guy.
No love,
Mira
Character: Titus Groan
Warnings: Spoilers for the second two books.
Summary: Just how are you the hero again?
Dear Titus,
I tried not to be a fanbrat and side with Steerpike, I really did. I told myself that your bland personality in the movie version was due to the failings of th actor. You were adorable as a kid, and even in the second book I overlooked your defects and accepted you as the hero. And then I read your solo book, and all my sympathy vanished.
You're supposed to be the hero of this series. But just what have you done that's heroic?
Killing Steerpike? Okay, I'll accept that was necessary, even if it was mostly luck on your part. But screw heroism- have you even done one remotely good thing since then?
No, you haven't. You've just treated everyone like crap because you can't get over leaving a place you didn't even LIKE.
In fact, let's go back to the second book, when your childhood crush dies by random lightening after you practically rape her. At least in the movie you had the decency to be sad about it. But in the book, you're HAPPY, because this means your childhood is over! That goes beyond cold- that's bordering on the sociopathic!
And what do you do after you finally leave Gormenghast? Do you actually take the time to discover a new world, the way you set out to do? No, you spend the whole time whining about having left! Despite the fact that you're supposedly ugly and obviously a jerk, everyone you meet loves you, or else they become insane and evil because you don't love them back. The one woman you actually had a connection with, you abandon after a night of sex because you 'don't want her pity.' And she still saves your ungrateful ass, along with her new boyfriend and another man who friggin' DIES FOR YOU.
And after you've put everyone through hell because ou can't get over Gormenghast, what do you do when you come back home? You leave again! Just no pleasing you, is there?
I'll accept the fact that the third book isn't as good because the author was going insane at the time. You, however, are a dick.
More than that, you made me miss Steerpike. He was an even bigger bastard than you, but at least we weren't expected to think of him as a good guy.
No love,
Mira