Im glad to see im not the only one who finds Astarion unbrearably overacted
He's not unbearably overacted...the character was specifically designed to come across as an insufferable and arrogant person who looks down upon everyone else.
Really? He doesn't come across all that insufferable to me. A bit of a spoiled brat, perhaps, but well, some people are like that. Lae'zel, meanwhile, with her "you are all inferior" attitude, I'm actually tempted to kill at times. If she only wasn't so useful as a fighter, and if her people weren't so knowledgable about the illithids.
I have less of a problem with Lae'zel because she is a Githyanki after all, they are evil aligned, but I also understand how necessary they are to protecting...well...everyone from the illithids. No matter how much you may hate them, it is important to remember that without the Githyanki doing what they do, relentlessly hunting the illithids, everyone across all planes of existence would be screwed.
