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naraku replied to your post “Rewatched Gerald’s Game tonight for the first time in a long while and...”

random but this is one reason why the new movie annoyed me like, arnold has the tendency to be an Actual Huge Asshole and in the movie he had little personality outside of goody two shoes optimist

I hate to agree with you but I... kinda... agree with you. I love TJM with my whole heart and will treasure it to my dying day, but they really took several steps back with Arnold’s character. Season 6 is my favorite version of him, I feel like he really matured a lot and I was looking forward to seeing my mean but still tender-hearted boi in TJM, but it didn’t end up that way. He felt kinda soulless in a lot of scenes. Even his design went from “Hey, yeah, I can see this kid in fifth grade,” to “What a cute third grader.” Oh well.

I just try to remember that TJM might’ve been an end to the series for us, but with how much time had passed, for Craig, it was really a new beginning. He hadn’t worked on HA! in so long, I think he wanted to play it kinda safe and gently ease the new generation into Arnold’s world. And that’s fine. I’m not mad about it.

To say something positive, I was overjoyed that Helga called Arnold a weird old wise-man, and that Arnold admitted he’d always kinda suspected Helga liked him. Our boy’s still there. He’s just going through a lot of emotions.