Eh, this is giving too much credit to shitty writing I think. By the last couple seasons there was no more coherence whatsoever in anything the characters did. They became filled with contradictions as the writers bent them this way and that to get them to do whatever the plot demanded, whether it made any sense or not. Everything in the show was about jumping from point A to point B, with little to no story, logic or consistency in the characters or the world they inhabited. Tyrion wasn't even a character at this point anymore. None of them really were. All the characters had become nothing more than empty plot devices by the end, they weren't like people anymore.
But yeah when I was watching the last season I was hoping Daenerys would just execute Tyrion already because literally everything he said and did was just causing one disaster after another, I couldn't understand why she kept him around. If the show was written halfway realistically anymore, she wouldn't have kept him around. But again, plot demands it. Back in season 4 when Tyrion was my favorite character I was devastated when Oberyn got killed and I thought Tyrion would be executed. But by season 8 I was actively hoping for him to die because he was just so annoying and stupid and his continued presence in the story was becoming more ridiculous with each and every episode. By the finale I wanted to strangle him myself.
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Seperatrix (1348)
3 years ago
Spot on.
Tyrion was my favorite and I grew more and more annoyed with his idiotic advice while fumbling one situation after another.
As the last two season unwound he was a shell of the clever, intelligent and competent character from the previous seasons.
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Otter (24464)
3 years ago
Yeah, that's the thing... the writers changed Tyrion from a genius to an idiot in the last two season!
Of course by then he'd spent several seasons getting hammered every waking hour so maybe the change wasn't totally implausible, but OMG the way they butchered the character in the final seasons and that makes me angry. It was actually disappointing to see him in the Small Council chamber at the end, because ever since he ran away from King's Landing everything he did went wrong and his brilliance dimmed along with his liver. After the events of S8 he should have been given a tragic death, along with a scene where he realizes he's betrayed Westeros by helping a tyrant, and betrayed his own potential with alcohol and family feuding.
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3 years ago
I just bingewatched the entire series. It was painful to hear the great Peter Dinklage given such terrible lines to say in those last two seasons. It could be argued Tyrion's character made a noticeable change when he left King's Landing. As an advisor to Danaerys, he made one bad blunder after another that I was literally surprised she didn't fire him from the job (brokering the "7 more years of slavery" negotiation with the masters, counseling her to leave Jon Snow and the others trapped in an imposdible situation up North, etc.) Many have pointed out that once David Benioff and DBWeiss ran out of original source matetial from George RR Martin, the writing took a nosedive. I have read the dialogue of the early seasons was in many instances lifted entirely from the novels. Tyrion in the latter seasons no longer has witty intelligent dialogue or seems like a person who would make a good advisor although in early seasons we see he was quite good at it. Dinklage does what he can with bad material and deserved his Emmy that final season just for keeping us still caring about Tyrion even though the writers had turned him into an imbecile.
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