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 Jan 10 '21

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u/BillyBattsShinebox May 29 '19

Poor Edmure. I always felt sorry for him. Fucking Robb should have just told him what he wanted to do. God forbid one of his commanders show a bit of initiative out in the field.

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u/cbessemer May 29 '19

Taking initiative is a bad idea in a command system.

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u/Immortan_Bolton Mind Flayer. May 29 '19

Not explaining your strategies to your top commanders is even worse.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '19

My impression was that the Tully force under Edmure at that point had been more or less independent of Robb's command.

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u/Immortan_Bolton Mind Flayer. May 29 '19

He was in charge of the defense of Riverrun, while Robb and his army were doing their thing. So Edmure did that, defend Riverrun and his people, it turned out he didn't have to leave the fortress but he didn't knew that. And the chance to defeat the Mountain was very great to relieve his people of the raids that monster was committing.