![]() ![]() On the third hand, if the "new" Walter is an amalgamation of his two personalities, it's possible he had both motivations at once. The Ghost, unlike Walter, really is a bit of a git. On the other hand, it's also true that the Ghost chose Christine over Agnes in the first place, on the grounds that "I can teach you to sing like her, but I cannot teach her to look like you" (but Christine swapped rooms with Agnes after she heard the voice, and Agnes did her best Christine impression to get the lessons).Sort of a platonic version of I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Therefore, it seems likely that Walter is discouraging Agnes because he knows that she'd be miserable in a Dysfunction Junction like the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. ![]() But in retrospect, it's possible that maybe Walter was well aware, or at least realized after his "transformation", that Agnes wasn't really enjoying her life at the Opera, being the Only Sane Man and therefore frequently confused and/or outraged by the behavior of her fellow performers. While Plinge and his "Phantom" persona do seem to be different people, it always frustrated me to see the once-kindly Walter do that sort of thing. ![]() ![]() At the end of Maskerade, Walter Plinge drove Agnes away from the Opera on purpose.At the end of Maskerade, the "new and improved" Walter Plinge seems to coldly reject the talented, smart, but fat and insecure Agnes Nitt in favor of the vapid, tone-deaf but beautiful and slender Christine because the latter has "star quality". ![]()
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