If someone asks me, who my favorite fictional character is, there he is.
Actually, there could be others, but right now the one that crosses my mind is him.
And he was perfectly portrayed by Charles Dance.
The things that I like about him is his strategic mind and his decision making process.
Well, most of my favorite fictional characters are antagonists and I usually hate protagonists. It’s not because I want to be anti-mainstream or because I see the qualities of the antagonists within me. Sometimes I like protagonists and hate antagonists, too. But in most of the movies and books, usually protagonists are stupid. They make their decision out of kindness and it ruins almost everything. Sometimes people die because of their “good” decision. While protagonists are stupid, usually antagonists are portrayed as smart and calculating. The qualities that I like. And Lord Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock is not only smart and calculating, he is also wise. I guess you can say I hate weakness and attracted to strength.
Again, about Lord Tywin Lannister who shits gold.
I hate it when talking about Game of Thrones, people on the internet -I think most of them are stupid- say that, “he’s evil” or “he’s good.” It’s like they’re incapable of understanding the complexity of humans. From watching a movie, you can get a sense of who you’re going to support, but it doesn’t mean that their enemies are bad guys. In a well written story like Game of Thrones (at least until season 4), characters are more complex. They have a reason for doing the things they do, maybe they’re motivated by fear, by money, by love, or in Tywin’s case, by legacy.
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