#if you'd described it to me on paper I would have been distraught because why does Olaf NEED a tragic backstory!!
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finished the penultimate peril last night and I will never ever forgive Neil Patrick Harris for making me cry about, of all characters, Count Olaf
#jacques snicket got in my way#notebook#seriously though *what* a well executed backstory reveal!#if you'd described it to me on paper I would have been distraught because why does Olaf NEED a tragic backstory!!#it just undermines his fun campiness!#but the great thing about Olaf is that he's never just been fun and campy even earlier in the show's run#there are these moments of what at the time seems like cold psychopathy#where the reality of what he's done is briefly acknowledged:#and this works because it makes olaf legitimately scary *because* this side of him coexists with his buffoonery#but with the reveal of what happened to him all of those moments are recast not as chilly detachment#but as this deep deep rage and sorrow that blinds him to other people's humanity#ugh it's so good#bookshelf blogging
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