You know, it doesn’t matter how loyal a servant you are, no one enjoys the company of a humourless mute.
What they really thought
Tywin’s another one of those characters where you can imagine every one of his lines ending with “you dumb fuck.”
But really
GRRM himself says about Catelyn that there’s a tendency in fantasy stories to want to get the mom off-stage, to sideline her for the hero’s story, and that’s what he was trying to reset, that’s the story he thought was missing that Catelyn is meant to fill
AND THEN
AND THEN
B&W FUCKING SIDELINE HER
“Don’t die so far from the sea.”
GOB: I mean, this family runs into problems and it’s “Oh, let’s have GOB [bleep] our way out of it.
Let ‘Em Eat Cake - 1x22
submission by OccupyWesteros
Tywin vs Olenna: A Summary