As said before, there is a HUGE SPOILER in this interview, if you don't mind, keep on reading.
With the season four finale of the hugely popular and succesful TV show Game of Thrones airing last night, a lot of story lines began and some were ended. Big story lines with major characters once again finaly intertwined. Not to mention, it wouldn't be a proper Game of Thrones season finale without death.
The show did a great job at advancing the storylines and having characters meet their new beginnings or their ends. One of them being Tyrion Lannister, portrayed by the talented Peter Dinklage.
Here is an excerpt of what George R.R. Martin had to say to Entertainment Weekly in a newly released interview pertaining to Tyrion in the season four finale.
Entertainment Weekly: So when Tyrion goes up to confront his father, what is he thinking he is going to do?...
George R.R. Martin: I don't think he is thinking about it at that point. He's at the nadir here. He's lost everything. He's going to be smuggled somewhere to safety, but what the hell is he gonna do there? He's lost his position in House Lannister, he's lost his position in court, he's lost all of his gold...
...he's also found out that Jaime - the one blood relation that he loved unreservedly and has his back, and was always on his side - played a part in this traumatic event of his life, the ultimate betrayal. He's so hurt that he wants to hurt other people.
EW: I remember one of the feelings i had reading what happens next is that we're so upset that Tyrion has been falsely accused, and then he goes and commits these murders. There's a certain regret because we want everyone to know him and like him the way we do, but that's doomed to never happen after his actions that night.
GRRM: I think sometimes people just get pushed too far, sometimes people break. And I think Tyrion has reached his point. He's been through hell, he's faced death over and over again, and he's been betrayed as he sees it, by all the people that he's tried to take care of, that he's tried to win the approval of. He's been trying to win his father's approval all his life.
An important thing that has been drilled in with hin since his youth - because it's very much Lord Tywin's philosophy - is that you don't make threats and then fail to carry them out. You threaten someone and they defy you, and you don't carry it out, then who's gonna believe your threats? Your threats have to carry weight..
... So his father says that word, his finger pushes on the crossbow, the decision of a split second, and then it's done...
... Tywin was his father and that will continue to haunt him, probably for the rest of his life.
... With Shae, it's a much more deliberate and in some ways crueler thing. It's not the action of a second, because he's strangling her slowly and she's fighting, trying to get free. He could let go at any time. But his anger and his sense of betrayal is so strong that he doesn't stop until it's donw and that's probably the blackest deed that he's ever done. It's the great crime of his soul along with what he did with his first wife by abandoning her after the little demonstration Lord Tywin put on.
He was also asked about Lord Tywins knowledge of Shae and he had this to say.
GRRM: As to precisely what happened here, that's something i dont really want to talk about because there's still aspects of it I haven't revealed that will be revealed in later books. But the role of Varys in all of this is also something to be considered.
Make sure to visit EWonline.com to read the whole interview, in it he also talks a bit of his writing process and killing of characters.
Game of Thrones is an adaptation by David Benioff and Dan Weiss based off of George R.R. Martin's series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire.
It stars an enemble cast that includes:
Peter Dinklage, Charles Dance, Lena Heady, Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maisie Williams, among others.