{"id":453,"date":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2020\/05\/04\/game-of-thrones-tyrion-was-the-games-sharpest-player-now-hes-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"game-of-thrones-tyrion-was-the-games-sharpest-player-now-hes-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/game-of-thrones-tyrion-was-the-games-sharpest-player-now-hes-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones\u2019 Tyrion was the game\u2019s sharpest player. Now he\u2019s in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones season eight, episode one. HBO<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

By Alex Abad-Santosalex@vox.com \u00a0<\/p>\n

There are spoilers in this post regarding the season eight premiere of Game of Thrones.
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\u201cI used to think you were the cleverest man alive,\u201d Sansa Stark tells Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones\u2019 season eight premiere, \u201cWinterfell.\u201d The line is easily the episode\u2019s harshest burn, as Sansa senses that Tyrion has seemingly put his fate in the hands of Cersei Lannister \u2014 someone Sansa has had firsthand evil experiences with.
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And Sansa\u2019s right.
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The scene follows Tyrion\u2019s announcement to the lords and ladies of the North that his sister Cersei will bolster their forces with an army sent from King\u2019s Landing. But everyone except Tyrion can plainly see that Cersei has no real intention of helping the Stark\/Daenerys alliance fight the Night King and his Army of the Dead. Instead, Cersei will let the two forces bleed each other dry.
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Vouching for his sister is just the latest blunder Tyrion has made, despite years of being touted as one of Game of Thrones\u2019 smarter, savvier characters.
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Tyrion has spent his whole life challenging the prejudices that others hold against him because he\u2019s a dwarf. He\u2019s had to be smarter and more charming than his swordsman brother, more cunning than his viper sister and awful father. And he\u2019s used the skills he\u2019s developed as a result to not only survive but become a trusted adviser to Daenerys Targaryen.
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Tyrion is a character who has always known how to play the game.
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But as we begin this final chapter of Game of Thrones, it seems like Tyrion has gone from player to pawn. His cunning has dulled. He\u2019s made a few dire mistakes. And now he\u2019s found himself stuck in a terrible situation.
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Daenerys has never trusted Tyrion when it comes to his family
The problem with Tyrion\u2019s insistence that Cersei is coming is that it\u2019s put him in a lose-lose situation.
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The nagging issue is that pretty much everyone except Daenerys, Jon, and their advisers seems to understand that Cersei isn\u2019t coming (see: Sansa\u2019s reaction of \u201cand you believed her?\u201d). And that\u2019s even though the only person Cersei has told onscreen that she\u2019s not coming is her brother Jaime.
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Tyrion did have that one-on-one meeting with Cersei in the season seven finale, but it\u2019s unclear what the resolution was. So all we know for certain is that Tyrion has insisted that Cersei\u2019s army is marching North. We don\u2019t know whether he truly believes it \u2014 though, as Sansa points out, anyone who has ever met Cersei should know not to.
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However, whether Tyrion believes Cersei\u2019s lie about sending troops is secondary to his lack of awareness that vouching for her will damage his relationship with Dany.
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What does Game of Thrones\u2019 season 8 premiere tell us about how the show ends?<\/strong>
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They\u2019re already on shaky ground because of Tyrion\u2019s strategic mistake in season seven to advise Dany to use the Unsullied to take Casterly Rock from his own family, a move that left Dany\u2019s allies in other locations unguarded. The result was that Olenna Tyrell and her army were defeated by the Lannister army at Highgarden, while Yara Greyjoy\u2019s fleet was attacked by her uncle (and Cersei lackey) Euron Greyjoy, leading to the Sand Snakes and their mother being killed.
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Dany was irate:<\/strong>
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\u201cYour strategy has lost us Dorne, the Iron Islands, and the Reach,\u201d she hissed at Tyrion at the time, cutting him off when he started to say something about underestimating their enemies.
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\u201cOur enemies?\u201d Dany balked. \u201cYour family, you mean. Perhaps you don\u2019t want to hurt them after all.\u201d
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It was in that flash of anger that Game of Thrones revealed the core problem of Dany\u2019s relationship with Tyrion: Deep down, she is concerned that he values his family more than her queendom. Instances like these suggest she isn\u2019t confident that he will ever be loyal to her, that she believes he will never be able to choose her over his family \u2014 the same family that includes Jaime \u201cKingslayer\u201d Lannister who killed Aerys Targaryen, but also the same family that looked down on, betrayed, and sentenced him to death.
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Tyrion\u2019s loyalty to Dany, and the entire reason she made him her Hand, hinges on the resentment he feels toward his family outweighing his love for his family. And because she\u2019s unsure of the resentment winning out, particularly when he does things like use caution against the Lannister army or advise her into military blunders, she never seems to fully trust him.
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Now imagine the hellfire that Dany will spit when she finds out Cersei isn\u2019t coming, and how much more caustic it will be if it\u2019s ultimately revealed to Dany that Tyrion knew the whole time that his sister was playing them for fools. All it would take is Sansa muttering something about how Tyrion should know better than anyone that his sister is a liar to cast doubt on Tyrion\u2019s loyalties.
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And things will be even worse if Dany finds out that Cersei is pregnant \u2014 a possibility, since the trailer for the second episode of the season shows Dany interrogating Jaime, and Jaime knows his sister is pregnant. If that happens, it will seem like Tyrion is protecting an unborn Lannister heir instead of pledging his loyalty to his queen, no matter his true intent.
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Tyrion may be vouching for Cersei to protect her baby<\/strong>
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There might be an explanation for Tyrion\u2019s behavior that was revealed last season.
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In the season seven finale, \u201cA Dragon and a Wolf,\u201d Tyrion had a one-on-one meeting with Cersei that possibly explains his actions. After they argue with each other about being terrible siblings and about Daenerys, Cersei homes in on her children \u2014 Joffrey, Tommen, and Myrcella \u2014 and how Tyrion\u2019s actions in killing their father indirectly led to Tommen and Myrcella\u2019s demise.
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\u201cI\u2019m more sorry about the children than you could ever know,\u201d he tells her. \u201cI loved them. You know I did. You know it in your heart if there\u2019s anything left of it.\u201d
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He then figures out, thanks to Cersei not drinking and clutching her belly, that she\u2019s pregnant. If what he said about Cersei\u2019s children is a true and honest moment of regret and emotion, Tyrion continuing to believe and insist that Cersei will send help to Winterfell may mean he\u2019s trying to protect the unborn Lannister heir in ways he didn\u2019t with Joffrey, Myrcella, or Tommen. He doesn\u2019t want this fourth Lannister child to meet the same fate as Cersei\u2019s other children.
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If Tyrion were to tell Sansa and Jon and Dany that Cersei\u2019s forces aren\u2019t coming, that would be a death sentence for Cersei and her unborn child, as Dany would deem her traitorous and probably send a dragon to King\u2019s Landing. By vouching for her, risking treason, he at least gives Cersei a little bit of a buffer.
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The crucial problem is that if he really is trying to protect his sister and her baby, he\u2019s risking his life for someone who doesn\u2019t feel the same way about him. Cersei, as we learned in the season eight premiere, has now promised
\n to pay Bronn a hefty sum to kill both of her brothers in the event they survive the Night King\u2019s impending siege on Winterfell. Whether Bronn can actually go through with killing his friends remains to be seen, but Cersei wants Tyrion dead \u2014 assuming Dany doesn\u2019t kill him first.<\/p>\n

Culled from www.vox.com\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n

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