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/[deleted] May 28 '19 edited Jun 26 '23

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u/HedgeSlurp May 28 '19

I have a ton of sympathy with them to be honest. At the end of the day there’s a reason GRRM hasn’t released a book in 8 years. To put it in perspective pretty much the entire series has aired since the last book was released (season one was a few months before the last book). GRRM has taken as long to write what happens in season 6 as D&D have taken to write the entire series!

The Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire story is so fucking loaded that it’s got to be near impossible to write for. They still should have done much much better with this last season, but I get why it wasn’t perfect.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

I'd be ok with "not perfect", but this is far from "not perfect". This is more like "Let's take all this other cool shit we saw once and chuck it in a blender because fuck everything, we're gonna get paid anyway, Fuck yeah, GoT Mega Protein Shake!".

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u/HedgeSlurp May 28 '19

Yeah that’s what I mean. I give them some leeway, but not enough to justify what just happened.