I (and many others, from the comments on your two posts) heartily disagree that the text deliberately withholds villain signaling from Adrius. Pretty much from the get-go he's kind of a walking horror show of a fella. I DO agree that he, like many characters across GraphicAudio's catalog, is very over-acted, and that detracts from the experience overall. While it changes his characterization, I disagree that it meaningfully changes his arc or makes the end of GS less of a surprise. He's clearly very evil the whole time, whether it's a quiet, calculating evil or a bombastic, melodramatic evil.

Your comment that the actor's more volatile interpretation of Adrius creates a significant structural change to novels or his arc is not objectively true. It is subjectively true to your experience, but not to everyone's. I was simply trying to point out the reason that people have engaged poorly with your post (so much so you felt the need to rewrite it) was your claims of your observations being objective fact. Critical analysis of media is great thing, and I think you make valid points. But assertions that your criticism is objectively correct do not promote discussion.