Game of Thrones: Why Omitting the Tysha Confession Ruins Tyrion's Character Arc

in season 1 of Game of Thrones Tyrion tells Brown and Shay the story of his first wife when Tyrion was 16 he and Jamie happened upon a bloody don't woman on the road being pursued by a group of men Jaime chases the men off and Tyrion come to the woman's aid my name is Tasha over the course of a single night Kieran and Taisha fall in love and get married Tyrion for probably the first time in his life is truly happy that is until about two weeks later when Tywin finds out about the marriage and he makes Jaime tell Tyrion the truth that Taisha was actually a prostitute and her rescue was merely a ruse allowing Tyrion to lose his virginity Tywin then has Taisha gang-raped by his guards this plays out identically in the books except for two caveats first he tells bran and Shay the story separately bran when they are on the way back from the Eyrie in Shae later on at King's Landing and second in the book Tywin actually makes Tyrion be the last one to have sex with her as if the experience wasn't traumatizing enough in both the book in the show what happens at Aisha is never explicitly stated this experience scarves Tyrion severely and is basically the reason he has spent his life avoiding any sort of relationship and opted to drown his sorrows and the brothels for who could love a dwarf if not for his family name and their gold that is until he and Shae begin their love affair and for the first time since Taisha Tyrion has finally found someone he believes loves him for him fast forward the season for Tyrion is put on trial for Joffrey's murder it basically amounts to a kangaroo court where Tara is convicted solely on circumstantial evidence Meryn Trant sirs-e pycelle and Varys all testify against him but the final witness is of course Shae now the show implies that Shay testifies against Tyrion because before Joffrey's death Tyrion chastises her and tells her that he could never love a [ __ ] and that she is not worthy of his children while Sansa is it's obvious that Tyrion is simply doing this to make Shae leave King's Landing thus keeping her out of harm's way despite this Shae scorned and alone decides to take revenge on him he does demand the trial by combat but awaiting his execution Tyrion is rescued from his cell by Jaime he used to be taken away from King's Landing by Varys as he's making his escape Tyrion sneaks into his father's quarters and find Shae in his father's bed he kill Shaye front his father on the [ __ ] and marries him he is then taken across the sea by Varys when they arrived in Pentos in season five Farris tells Tyrion about the plan to instill Daenerys as the rightful heir of the Iron Throne Varys offers Tyrion the chance to come within the sea Danny and Tyrion agrees now this chain of events is basically the same with how it plays out in the books Tyrion is put on trial Shae betrays him he is rescued by Jaime he kill Shaye and his father and then escapes across the Narrow Sea except in the books right after Jamie frees Tyrion Jaime realizing this may be the file time he sees his brother confesses that Isis attack on the road was real Taisha was not a [ __ ] and the love between her and Tyrion was real Tywin made Jaime lie and say Taisha was a [ __ ] before having his guards and finally Tyrion rape her before sending her on her way Tyrion is enraged he swears vengeance on Jaime Cersei and his father and tells Jaime that Cersei has been banging other people behind his back including that twinkie little [ __ ] Lancel now many will say that the omission of Jaime's confession doesn't alter the story in any major way since the principal plot point remain intact the omission of Jaime's confession creates more than a few plot holes and completely destroys Tyrians character arc let me explain as I stated before the implication in the show is that Shaye betrays Tyrion because he called her a [ __ ] and said she was not worthy of him this is kind of stupid Shae in the show is not senseless she must know that Tyrion is obviously just saying this to make her go away and thus be safe now she's obviously hurt by losing Tyrion but to have her betray him sentence him to death it feels extremely contrived but wait you may ask isn't this problem also in the book doesn't this fall Martin in the books shade does testify against Tyrion but not for a revenge or anything like that the implication in the book is that shade never truly left Arian but simply saw him as a chance to improve her life when Tyrion was put on trial that chance was squashed we find out in a later book that Cersei actually coerced Shae into testifying against Tyrion Shae saw a chance to improve your life and she took it one thing to keep in mind is that the books are all POV style which means they are not necessarily objective when Shay betrays Tyrion in the books it basically dawns on both Tyrion and the reader that she never loved him had simply built her up in his head not able to see that she was just using him as Chasez in the show which would have actually served as a great bit of foreshadowing you should have known she was a [ __ ] you're still young and stupid now we come to Jaime freeing Tyrion and telling him the truth about Taisha the reason this moment is so pivotal for Tyrians character arc is because Tyrion finally realizes that someone did love him for more than just his gold or his family name when Shae betrays him at the trial it isn't necessarily a net loss Tyrion realizes he hasn't necessarily lost anything since Shae never loved him in the first place but when Jaime tells him the truth about Taisha Tyrion realizes that someone did love him he had happiness he had the love of another he so desperately sought after and his father and his brother ripped it away from him by telling him a lie oh why the sense Tyrion on a life path of believing he is not worthy of that love during the trial Tyrion sees himself condemned by the father that never wanted him by the sister who despises him by the city he risked everything to save at the Battle of Blackwater by the woman he thought loved him but it is the betrayal by Jaime the only person in his life who was ever truly cared for him that cuts the most his loving brother who was complicit in the lie that altered Tyrians life for the worse in this moment Tyrion has nothing learning of Jaime's betrayal serves as the culmination of Tyrians transition into a darker character a transition that Peter Dinklage portrays brilliantly in the show I was the monster you think I am I wish I had enough poison for the whole pack of you I would gladly give my life we can already see the cracks start to form a tear in psyche during the trial after Tyrion leaves Jaime he meet with Varys during their escape Tyrion finds one of Eris's secret ladders that leads to the Tower of the hand the same one Varys used to sneak shayin when Tyrion served as the hint realizing he has the chance to take vengeance on Tywin tear in a sense the Tower of the hand whereas in the show Tyrion just sort of like he sees the fire stairs and then just pops up in the Tower of the hand in that little compartment but I mean whatever who cares in the show consider what Tyrians motivation is for going back to the Tower of the hand most would say he obviously just wants revenge on Tywin for [ __ ] him over during the trial but Tywin has been doing this literally Tyrians entire life now Tywin was probably going to let Tyrion take the black but after his outburst at court with him threatening the entire city that's when he is pretty much guaranteed his execution throughout the series we get the sense that if Tywin really wanted to he could have teary and killed at literally any point but and there is a sense of honor in the family name that supersedes Tywin's bloodlust to see Tyrion dead but if something were to happen that was concerned and consequential say if Tyrion died in battle or he was convicted for the death of a king well it's out of tywin's hands remember Tywin knows Tyrion didn't kill Joffrey he is simply using the show trial as an excuse to get rid of his petulant dwarf son also I don't know if this theory has been staying elsewhere but in my view I think Tywin was going along with the trial in order to remove suspicion of Joffrey's real killer Tywin knows Tyrion didn't do it and he knows neither sirs-e nor Jaime would so it must have been someone from another house now if Tywin convicted Tyrion and sent him to the Nights Watch then Tywin could conduct his own investigation about who really killed Joffrey since the true killer would assume they got away with it Tywin would be able to find the true killer and if he did Terence name would be cleared and even better even if Terence name was cleared he may not have been able to leave the Nights Watch anyway Tyrion is out of his life and the family name is left untouched win-win for Tywin so yeah the idea that Tyrion who was on the cusp of escaping would risk everything to sneak into the Tower of the hand to take revenge on father for basically doing the same [ __ ] he has done to him his whole life again it just seems very contrived also consider that if Tyrion had not found Tywin with his pants down literally he would have easily been overpowered and thrown back into a cell but now what factor in the Taisha reveal in the book when Tyrion realizes he has the chance to take revenge on his father he isn't exactly thinking straight he is in a state of Rage anger and confusion he knows he is risking it all but in that moment he doesn't care in the book when speaking to Varys he says the only thing I value less than my life just now is yours he has no one he has nothing to lose and yet there is one other reason he does this which makes perfect sense I'm gonna get to that shortly we find Tyrion in the Tower of the hand he finds postponed Shae in his father's bed now in the show Shae grabs a knife and tries to shank Tyrion this scene always felt weird to me there's no dialogue between the two and Shaye seems super amped to kill Tyrion it was even a split second when Tyrion looks at her and and is like what the [ __ ] [ __ ] they struggle and Tyrion is able to grab hold of her necklace he falls off the bed and chokes her out Tyrion is noticeably shook a--the and whimpers out of soft sorry this scene plays out very sympathetic to Tyrion making it appear as very self-defense ish if you will but in the book Tyrion fine Shae and his father's bed and shape leads saying she is in fear of his father and that Cersei made her say those things now she could totally be playing with Tyrion in this moment but then she says milord will be back soon you should go or did you come to take me away so she might be sweet-talking him yet this line sort of makes it seem like she's pleading with him to go like why wouldn't she scream for the guards or something if she really wants hearing they get caught she comes off as a scared confused girl with no fortitude a constitution very different from the ferocious knife wielding shade in the show so then Tyrion seeing this pleading cowering girl on his father's bed shows mercy on her right No he grabs a chain around her neck and chokes her out it is portrayed in a single paragraph and said nothing about Shaye fighting back or her attacking him first he even talks a little [ __ ] through her as she dies this was straight-up murder another step toward the dark side then in both the book and the show Tyrion confronts Tywin in the Privy in the show Tyrion is enraged the Tywin took shade abed saying that he left her Tywin calls her a [ __ ] twice over the course of the conversation and Turan shoots him dead but in the book when Tyrion confronts Tywin he doesn't even mention the fact that he killed Shaye she means nothing to him now of course he hates his father and he wants revenge but there is one thing that he wants to know even more Tyrion asks him what did you do with Taisha this makes perfect sense now realizing Taisha did in fact love him for him he thinks perhaps he can salvage their love if he finds out what happened to her it is Taisha who Tywin caused a horror which results in Tyrion killing him so now we come to another plot hole in the show Tyrion kills his father because he uses the word [ __ ] to describe Shae the problem is that she won't she was a [ __ ] I mean not just in terms of her profession like she [ __ ] betrayed Tyrion at the trial like it was nothing but in the book Tywin uses the word to describe Taisha but Tysha was not a [ __ ] at all she was just an innocent girl who is sincerely loved Tyrion this is why the word triggers no pun intended Tyrion so much the writers thought that substituting Schafer Taisha in the scene wasn't that big of a deal and yet it completely overlooks the subtext and ironing of the dialogue so some of you may be saying so what the plot itself seems unaltered Tyrion flees across the Narrow Sea and is on his way to meet Danny just like in the book so no harm done right here's the problem within the first chapter of us picking up a Tyrian story after he flees King's Landing we see he has changed he's always been a realist and somewhat apathetic to the world yet he always carried an air of optimism and liveliness but now Tyrion is more vindictive drowning his sorrows in booze self-loathing fantasizing about mounting Susie and Jaime's heads and even briefly muses about killing Varys Illyrio brings him a young woman to have but tearing and chastises her insult her and even threatens to strangle her as he did to his last [ __ ] Tyrion is bitter vengeful and incredibly self-loathing a drastic change from the witty Tyrion we know and love and yet in the show when he lands in Pentos he I mean he just kind of seems like the same old Tyrion we don't get the vengeance that hate the bitterness just the same old same old in the books Tyrion falls along with Illyrio and Varys his request to find Danny for so are the same reason it's in the show he simply doesn't have anything else to do Cersei has put a bounty on his head so he needs to be incredibly careful where he goes but in the books he also has the drive of finding Tysha however hopeless that maybe at one point in the books tyrion goes to a brothel and search for Taisha he picks out a westerosi looking woman in bed sir the girl is completely unwilling and uncomfortable and Tyrion seem to just be hounding her like a dog asking her if she knows Taisha as he takes her after he finishes he vomits disgusted with the man he has become he urges the young girl to kill him to put him out of his misery and then he [ __ ] her again the Tyrion we know and love is gone in the show the same scene is presented except well he just sort of sui talks one of the women and then as she is taking him to bed he stops he says he can't for like some reason the show doesn't really explore this and we are meant to assume maybe like honestly I don't even know why he refuses it doesn't really make any sense in the book it is clear that he is disgusted with what he has become consumed by rage guilt vengeance shame and self-loathing perhaps even feeling immense guilt over the traumatic rape of Taisha that his father made him perform and yet all those feelings all that character development in the show nothing but hey George still kidnaps him at the end of the scene in both the book in the show so who cares about Tyrion sinner character development right this is white in has basically been regulated to a static character in the last few seasons of the show in the books Tyrion has yet to meet Danny face to face and during his journey to find her he starts to slowly regain his sense of self-worth and dispel the monster within yet in the show there doesn't seem to be anything that is driving Tyrion to continue on except for the fan hype of him and Danny finally meeting fans were so amped about to fan favorite characters meeting they didn't notice or didn't care that Tyrians character has come to a complete standstill now the reason for the showrunners omitting the Taisha reveal is somewhat vague perhaps they did so just the streamlined the story but in my opinion I feel one of the reasons they did this was because they didn't want to kill the bromance between Tyrion and Jaime now the relationship between Jaime and Tyrion is very touching and sentimental and a breath of fresh air in a saga filled with [ __ ] up family relations but while their relationship is touching it isn't all that interesting are packed with conflict contrast their relationship with Tyrion and Cersei they loathe and detest each other yet do not underestimate each other's intellect and capabilities and even indulge in moments of sympathy showing that despite everything they are family and that means something Tyrion and Tywin is another brilliantly complex relationship contempt and animosity yet respect Jaime and Tyrion love each other and that's pretty much it but in the books when Jamie tells Tyrion the truth about taisiya their relationship is severed this sets up a juicy confrontation between the two brothers if they ever cross paths in the novel's again which I'm pretty sure they will in the show without the types of confession they are still on good terms I thought they were going to rectify this by having Jaime and rage' Tyrion for killing Tywin and perhaps feeling guilty that he had a hand that inadvertently killing his own father in the books Jaime even muses that had he no turn was going to kill Tywin he would have killed Tyrion to stop him but then they meet in season 7 and they seem fine it's whatever cool so as for another plot hole do you remember this scene [Music] so tyrion who still loves his brother the only person he actually cares about in the world watches him charge into certain death and doesn't do anything he just stands there no yelling no waving his arms nothing now if they had kept the tighter of you this could have been excellent character moment tyrion watches jamie charged in a certain death quenching his thirst for revenge yet in the moment watching his brother about to be turned to ash tyrion snaps out of his bitter and hateful self and it is a sign that he is beginning to regain his humanity what concerns me most about this omission is that it seems more and more likely that they are setting up tyrion to betray Danny and John in the fire season of the show Tyrion is starting to question Danes temperament as a clean he feels guilt about the death of Marcela and Tommen and now the surgery is pregnant he doesn't want to have another member of his family put in the harm's way after all you know how much I left my family this betrayal seems pretty obvious in retrospect since the moment Tyrion discovers Susy is pregnant it just cuts back to the dragon pit with Susy being off cooperative and [ __ ] also because of that weird ominous luck Tyrion makes on the ship when John's giving Danes and familial dick now had they kept the darka Tyrion in the show this could have probably actually worked my theory is that in the books once Tyrion finally meets Dany he is so blinded with rage and thirst for vengeance he isn't able to properly vet her to determine if she would make a virtuous ruler of the Seven Kingdoms as they make their way across the sea he slowly comes to realise the darker aspects of Danes personality that we as viewers and readers have seen throughout the series so once Dany Tyrion and ko reach the Seven Kingdoms Tyrion begins to realize what he has unleashed upon his former home and despite the fact that he swore vengeance on his family and the kingdom that cast him aside upon seeing his brother almost killed by Dani he finally wakes up and realized his quest for vengeance has resulted in the possibility that his entire family will be scorched by dragons this is what leads him to betray her in the end but because we did not get this darker Tyrion in seasons five and six I just don't buy that Tyrion was not able to see that Dany was not as magnanimous as others may her out to be so yeah it could have worked but I have a feeling that if or when Tyrion betrays her in the final season fans are going to cry [ __ ] because the writers didn't lay sufficient enough groundwork for it to seem non contrived and more importantly that they ruined one of their favorite characters because they like Tyrion they want him to be the good guy this is why fans cried BS after Jamie raped Suzy next to Joffrey's body in season four claiming that it ruined his character this is why as the series went on we got more archetypal good characters and evil characters as opposed to the more complex and morally questionable ones of the earlier seasons this is ultimately why I think they remove the Taisha confession and left out the darker Tyrion because they didn't want to have their fan favorite character do morally questionable things despite the fact that this means Tyrians character arc in seasons five and six it's pretty much non-existent sorry terian you deserve better you suck

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Published: Thu Sep 06 2018