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Which brings one back a question asked before: Why does he NEED to be so succesful? And not only that: There are a few lines indicating that he had the majority of skills before Margolotta took him in. Skills he can\'t have learned at the blacksmith.
Furhermore, his skills and knowledge outdo EVERYONE. There\'s not a single scene where someone is talking to or about him where that person isn\'t impressed. And when he does something, he\'s never wrong. Not once.
And in the end he\'s basically tasked to \'lead the orcs out of the dark\'. How? By teaching them philosophy? Speaking in big words?
And why at all? Why was he actually spared to begin with?
The stories leaves too many questions unanswered for my taste.
On a sidenote:
As I said, I am willing to discuss, but whereever I look things boil down to people finding excuses for flaws in the story (and I don\'t even mean of the YMMV nature. I am talking about actual stylistic flaws) because \'there can\'t be a flaw, it\'s Pratchett\'.
Furhermore, his skills and knowledge outdo EVERYONE. There\'s not a single scene where someone is talking to or about him where that person isn\'t impressed. And when he does something, he\'s never wrong. Not once.
And in the end he\'s basically tasked to \'lead the orcs out of the dark\'. How? By teaching them philosophy? Speaking in big words?
And why at all? Why was he actually spared to begin with?
The stories leaves too many questions unanswered for my taste.
On a sidenote:
As I said, I am willing to discuss, but whereever I look things boil down to people finding excuses for flaws in the story (and I don\'t even mean of the YMMV nature. I am talking about actual stylistic flaws) because \'there can\'t be a flaw, it\'s Pratchett\'.
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Okay, let\\\'s reword what I initially wrote here:
Granted, your argumentation is thought through, but I ask you this:
Does he go through a significant change after, let\\\'s say, he became the coach?
He may adapt some \\\'gutterspeak\\\', yes. But that\\\'s basically it. And even there there\\\'s the slight sour taste of \\\'that\\\'s how lower beings speak\\\'.
Then there\\\'s not one moment throughout the entire story where he genuinely fails. Where someone else has to do his work because he didn\\\'t succeed.
That makes the difference to me.
I have seen a lot of \\\'bookwise\\\' characters so far. Most of them older than Nutt. But rarely anyone as \\\'skilled\\\' and admired as him.
Think what you want. To me it\\\'s not a good character. And it is sickening to see how people grub for excuses. Folks, even Pratchett can fail from time to time. And frankly, with the number of things in the particular book, there is even the chance he wrote it bad on purpose.
Granted, your argumentation is thought through, but I ask you this:
Does he go through a significant change after, let\\\'s say, he became the coach?
He may adapt some \\\'gutterspeak\\\', yes. But that\\\'s basically it. And even there there\\\'s the slight sour taste of \\\'that\\\'s how lower beings speak\\\'.
Then there\\\'s not one moment throughout the entire story where he genuinely fails. Where someone else has to do his work because he didn\\\'t succeed.
That makes the difference to me.
I have seen a lot of \\\'bookwise\\\' characters so far. Most of them older than Nutt. But rarely anyone as \\\'skilled\\\' and admired as him.
Think what you want. To me it\\\'s not a good character. And it is sickening to see how people grub for excuses. Folks, even Pratchett can fail from time to time. And frankly, with the number of things in the particular book, there is even the chance he wrote it bad on purpose.
