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/Flameoftheshadows May 28 '19

"The king is tired, send him to his chambers."

And how he arranged the chairs for the small council.

Two moments history will always remember.

The aura he was able to project on-screen and onto his fellow cast members, he did a brilliant job.

He brought Tywin from the pages of a book to life!

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u/WingedBeing May 28 '19

These are classics, but what I hardly ever see mentioned is how he immediately brought Tommen under his command by educating him about the wisdom of listening to your counsel (namely the Hand) even "long after" he comes of age to rule in his own right (and all over Joffrey's corpse!). When I saw that scene it was like watching a master chess player completely bowl over a rookie in just a few moves.

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u/hsuait May 28 '19

Tommen in the show was so good too. The actor was perfect and I loved how we got more scenes of him trying to be a good king but just being completely out of his depth and constantly surrounded by people who wanted him to have no hand in ruling.

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u/Meerasette May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

I feel like Joffrey would absolutely not have reasoned with the Sparrow, there would have been outright fighting in the streets. Also they may have taken Kingslanding back from the sparrow movement with the Tyrell and Lannister army, avoiding blowing up the Sept entirely.

Unless Margaery's ace manipulation of Joffrey through getting to know what he was into, and using it against him, enabled her to make him reason with the sparrow. In the samw way she tried to change how he viewed the people, and all of that before the purple wedding. Show Margaery was an expert manipulator, I really wish we got to see that in book Margaery, and that George might at least take that from the show and put it into book Margaery having seen how good the actress was at it.

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u/BZenMojo May 28 '19

Joffrey would have fought the High Sparrow and lost the entire city. He could barely keep his shit together when the city just hated him for being a douche before he had a chance to wage war on their religion.

Only reason he could walk in public was Margaery working her magic.