KnightofPhoenix wrote...
Boiny Bunny wrote...
The TV show and book series exist within separate realms of canon lore. The TV show changes a great deal of details from the books (much more so in Series 2 than Series 1) - as such, I wouldn't consider anything from the TV series to be 'canon' in the book series.
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Yea after having read the third book, I see scenes in the show as interpretations rather than canon (agreed that Varys and Littlefinger acted OCC).
I think Charles Dance is a phenomenal actor and that he dominates all scenes he is in. But he's not exactly like Tywin in the book. With Arya, he talks too much, while Tywin is not known to be talkative. I like the content of what he says to Arya, but he's more enigmatic in the books, with other people talking about him (most prominently Kevan). That said, what I do consider canon is Tywin's look in the show, the one in the book looks a bit silly (whiskers and baldness, meh).
Anyhoo, Tywin is easily, easily, my favorite character of the books.
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I think of the TV series as an adaptation and look at it as seperate from the books. I'm only part way into the first book, A Game of Thrones, and while they've kept clost to the original text in series 1 I do know that later on they have veered off from it. Yet, there are some scenes in season 2 and season 1 when read in combination with the books that make me think that Tywin Lannister while cold, ruthless and intelligent. Actually would have been a perfect ruler for the Seven Kingdoms, even if he did rule in effect for 20 years under the Mad King.
The scene on the series where Charles Dance, talks to Jamie, while skinning a stag (screams metaphor, one of my favorite scenes). We all know Jamie to be flippant and somewhat joking, even in the books I think Tyrion mentions, or notes, his brother never takes anything seriously. So it's kind of hammered home when he's there alone with his father, that he keeps his mouth shut and doesn't utter a word out of turn, that Jamie fears and respects his father, almost as much as everyone else.
I can understand the issues, with representing Tywin, early in season 1 as I don't think he appears in the books until later, but it's more difficult I think for the TV series to portray and convey to viewers effectively the kind of man he is, than it is in the book, when people mention and talk about him and we can get a feel for what he's like as a character better through his Kevan, Tyrion, Jamie and to an extent the Starks eyes. Each one gives a different view of Tywin, but you can't pull that off as effectively in the show, without us actually seeing him.
Tywin has become my favorite character in the show, easily because of Charles Dance, but also because of some of the scenes that he's in, and the story that he tells about House Lannister etc. His rise, his father, Jamie. etc. Despite it not being in the books, I have enjoyed them.
But from what I know of him in the books I don't think he'll disappoint either.
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Of all likelihood, I half-except the dragons to die mid-flight across the ocean and Daenery murdering Jon Snow for random reasons. 
