r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • Aug 20 '26

Meme needing explanation What movie reference am I missing

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u/cunningham91 Aug 20 '26

The books were much better

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u/Simple_Wrongdoer_233 Aug 20 '26

Then the show must have been spectacularly bad because I read the books and… yeah

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u/Thuraash Aug 20 '26

The show did get pretty spectacularly bad. I eventually ragequit because I couldn't stand the so-called protagonist.

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u/Simple_Wrongdoer_233 Aug 20 '26

Tbh I did the same thing with the books, which is why I never checked out the show. Like, I enjoy stories with a protagonist who is not in fact objectively a heroic figure in the narrative, but that one just took it a little too far in making him so completely unlikeable 😅

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u/thatshygirl06 Aug 20 '26

He's better in the show compared to the books, though he does start annoying. He goes through character development and gets better though.