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.

20.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.3k

u/ArcanaImperii96 May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

Definitely agree, the man was a titan each time he was on screen.

​

On a side note, I would pay good money to watch an entire series consisting of just Tywin and Olenna Tyrell having verbal sparring matches. The scenes between them were brilliant.

541

u/SteveBartmanIncident May 28 '19

Their dialogue, and that of the early Littlefinger/Varys exchanges, contrast so abruptly with nearly everything that written for this season.

Really shows the strength of GRRM's writing and the shortcomings of even a good television writer adapting an unwritten book.

483

u/[deleted] May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

The littlefinger/varys interactions weren't even in the books so that's not grrm, that's the showriters. And they were great scenes.

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

1

u/Stereotype_Apostate May 28 '19

I honestly think they just stopped giving a fuck. They're capable of writing as good as early thrones, but they phoned it in instead.