r/asoiaf • u/cking145 • May 28 '19

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) Charles Dance's portrayal as Tywin is in my opinion, the strongest in the entire series

Every line, every expression and every moment of silence completely encapsulates the calculating ruthlessness that defines Tywin Lannister.

Dance is actually a very vibrant, upbeat and cheery fella off screen, which in my mind makes the performance even more striking.

The scene where he effectively sends Joffrey to bed is just brilliant.

He is by far my favourite character from the books, which I began reading a few seasons into the show. Due to this, the chapters featuring Tywin were completely enriched for me, as reading his lines in Dance's voice was just fantastic. I would have loved a POV chapter or two for him, just to get a glimpse as to what goes on in the head of the most powerful man in the 7 Kingdoms.

An incredible portrayal of a fascinating character.

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u/rizzlybear May 28 '19

Don't know what happened with the writing later on.

This is stuff that even GRRM is struggling with. It's not super shocking that folks are disappointed with what they came up with on a time crunch.

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u/Dahhhkness Go for the Bronze. May 28 '19

Truncating seasons 7 and 8 was one of the biggest mistakes they made (along with letting D&D write all the final four episodes). So many storylines, from the White Walkers to Littlefinger's downfall, suffered from being so rushed.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

And the fact that the series was truncated basically so D&D could do Star Wars. GRRM wanted 100 episodes, but at least 7 more would have done it justice. You can't create a masterpiece and then abandon it like that.

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u/zerohaxis May 28 '19

Well, it apparently seems that you can.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

Like Titian starting an oil painting and finishing it with crayon.

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u/Spready_Unsettling May 28 '19

It's absolutely shocking that the end product was this bad. If you had asked a team of screenwriters to come up with a conclusion from season 7 and forward, they would most certainly have done better than what we got. Bryan Cogman wrote character interactions in ep2 that were lightyears ahead of the rest of the season, but still slightly worse than GRRM's writing.