Another level of irony this would have added is that Tyrion would have lived up to his name “the Imp.” Imps in folklore (and D&D) are sneaky little devils who bond themselves to more powerful beings and drive them towards evil through power of suggestion.

"He's the villian of course," Oh my gosh that's GENUIS WHY DIDN'T THE SHOWRUNNERS USE THAT?!

Amazing symbolism in Tyrion killing her with the pin. Jaime had sworn his sword to Aerys, Tyrion had sworn his mind to Dany. The pin is a direct representation of this. They both betrayed their monarchs with what they had sworn to protect them with, in order to protect the realm. Canon worthy GRRM shit. It's unpredictable, yet feels totally meant to be

It’s a really good re-write. The writers played it safe with Tyrion because he was so popular early in the show, and as a result he lost his edge. This would restore it! A Varys/Tyrion showdown would have given both of their characters a purpose that followed their arcs nicely

Is it sad that youtube has been making me far more satisfied with GoT ending than the show itself? The redemption at the end is brilliant, I love it, thank you.

I absolutely love the Tyrion vs Varys concept. Dany's fall to the dark side would be much more believable if she had a devil on her shoulder. Daario has that role in the books but in the show they never really did much of anything with it other than one or two lines.

Jesus this makes so much more sense. I'm going to pretend this is how it ended.

I didn't have a problem with Danny's mad targaryen arc but this Tyrion arc would really fill a lot of plot holes and help with her character development

Can you make a rewrite video about the littlefinger story arc?

Fans might not like it at first, but since this is Game of Thrones - a show that (used to) favor more character's development and deeds & consequences to progress the narrative, over fanservice; It would eventually be accepted and even praised as other early moments in the show!

Tsyha was brought up more than just once. It was mentioned in full in Season 1 as well as in Season Two (Tyrion and Bronn discussion) and Season Three (Tyrion defiantly says to Tywin “I was wed! Don’t you remember”). The show runners wanted to make Tyrion into a good character and as Dragon Demands states wanted to make Tywin not as bad as he is in the books coz David Benioff sees a lot of his father in Tywin. This is less obvious by worth a look at

PAUSE! PAUSE! PAUSE!!! Literally paused the video at 16:49!! Omg! Varys vs Tyrion would have been EXCELLENT!!! Spectacular! Battle of wits, angel and devil on each shoulder! Phenomenal!! So glad this popped up on my feed! New subscriber!!! Wow! My mind is blown 🤯

All of this made total sense. I would’ve been so happy if the writers would’ve gone this way with Tyrion. Peter Dinklage’s acting would’ve been supreme at the moment he realizes that he has to kill Dany to save many innocent others.

Pretty good, I like it a lot more than the actual show's writing.

I don't think you went overboard in comparing the show to the books

You know, the fact that Tywin comes back and strips Tyrion of all his power, it occurs to me that Tywin sent him there to begin with assuming he'd f--- things up, and as soon as Tywin found out that Stannis was riding for KL, Tywin was hot on Stannis' heels, expecting to find the city near panic and ruin and Tywin could ride in and save the whole place and everyone would be begging him to take charge (possibly even stand in for Joff, too, until the boy reached adulthood, giving Ty ALL the power). Instead, he found a city well-defended and the people in fairly good shape, and he said "Aw HELLS no...this will never do." I think he stripped Tyrion of his power and his glory (actively undermining and downplaying Tyrion's part in the whole thing while he was recuperating so there was no one to argue the point) because he knew that Tyrion was MUCH too smart and too dangerous to Tywin if he had that much control. For all that Tywin always snubbed and ridiculed Tyrion, I fully believe he FEARED him even more, because he KNEW this was the one child who was as cold and calculating as he was himself, and the one child who could unseat him from power.

Honestly really excited about the coming videos man. I absolutely loved your Tyrion video.

I think the weird mention of elephants from Cersei is a sort of bending of the knee to Lord of the Rings and Pellenor fields, which included elephants in the last big battle of the trilogy. Reference the book all you want, god knows it'll provide some guidance on how this series went so wrong.

20:35 Tyrion: "You're the only one that was ever nice to me. Don't come to school tomorrow."

The Dothraki would kill Tyrion on sight immediately after he kills Dany since they are all her bloodriders. Other than that it's amazing !

I liked the part of A Dance with Dragons where Tyrion has a dream in which he's a 2 headed monster, and one of the heads is killing Jaime and doesn't even notice that the other head is crying

“Especially since I want to make sure the scripts are non-rushed and of high quality” oof man

I'd personally love to see this storyline play out. It's so much more natural. There's conflict between characters we like, questionable actions making us question our own morals and who we really stand with, which is what made us fans in the beginning. It was all so bland and easy in the final episodes, no heads butting, maybe a little worry, but no wonder, and that's a problem. And it would give SO much more meaning to Varys' otherwise worthless death. As it stands, Tyrion turned him over for what? Pure loyalty to the queen? He had no agendas of his own? He's much too cynical and smart a character to be so blindly loyal to someone with so much power. Even being rushed, even with the immense pressure of living up to the hype, I believe I could've resolved this series much better EVEN if I only had 8 episodes.

It would be heartbreaking to see a good character turn bad, yes. But it was more heartbreaking to see a smart and interesting character turn stupid and boring. I like your ideas.

Varys and Tyrion are two of my top 5 favorite characters, both show and books. A season 7 like you just described would have been too awesome to describe. Dany's id and superego locked in a battle of wits and morality.

Yesh tysha was such a big plot point in the books! The show definitely should've included it! I'm sure Tyrion mentions her to Tywin in S3 so it wouldn't have been completely out of left field

That lisp joke, hahaha. Massive respect, brother✊

Care to make a rewrite of first character ruined by D&D ? That is One True King Stannis Baratheon.

I love everything except him killing Dany. I still think that should be Jon's job. But he can still get redemption by doing pretty much what he does in the show at that point: refuses to be Hand, gets thrown in the dungeon, and then serves as the tipping point for Jon to do his duty, fulfilling his redemption by using the very skill that caused the mess in the first place: persuasion.

I think in the books he will want what is his rightful heritage: Casterly Rock and the leadership of house Lannister and the Westerlands. Also think what he really want is to be, if not loved, at least accepted and / or respected.

it has been years since I have read the books now, but I seem to remember that after Jamie confesses to Tyrion about Tysha, Tyrion lies to Jamie claiming he did in fact kill Joffrey in order to similarly hurt his brother.

I think the showrunners omitted the Tysha confession, not because no-one remembers her, but because it would have been so traumatic and dark. Actually the confession in the book, and the story behind it, is so horrid that it completely breaks Tyrion's mind, making him obsessed with finding her, and losing his rational mind (he looks for the place "where whores go" : he follows his father's answer to his question, seemingly not realising it is not a proper clue for finding his lost love. he doesn't make his own investigation, or pay someone to do it, he just clings to Twin's dismissive answer, he takes it at face value, hoping that when he finds "where whores go", he will find his lost love... ). The constrast between the premises of their romance, a sign of hope that people can love in spite of everything (his appearance, their disparity in birth), and the horrid destroying of it all, is one of the most traumatic elements of GRRM's books for me. As a matter of fact, I am under the impression that the show basically shows "whores" being... I don't know, desensitised or something? Whereas if you look into it, in the books just as in reality, most women in brothels are not willing to be there (i.e. in their personal experience, the sex they have is akin to rape. Men do not se it this way, but to the women, it is undesired sex, basically rape, and they are just as free as slaves or prisonners of war). Brothels and whores are a way for the show to include nudity and sex without the guilt and grim darkness of the world. The books tend to show us this : women in brothels have been raped and abused and given no other choice, or are there because it is the only way to escape brutal rape and murder, and their reality is just as horrid as any other victim of war crimes. And Tysha is just the epitome of this logic (a woman having been the victim of circumstances, or crimes, or twisted schemes, has no other choice than being victim of unwanted sex for the rest of her life). Which would make the show much more political on this level, and maybe guilt-tripping the audience... and much darker anyway : Tysha's story is so sad, hopeless, and beyond any hope of redemption (or even, closure, as it shows in the books, there is no way to know of her eventual fate in the vast world). This is my opinion on why they deleted it. What do you think? And I agree : your storyline for Tyrion makes sense in the light of it, and your rewrites are just brilliant! Thanks for all that. Please keep it up. (I am re-watching your rewrites, after the new one) Cheers!

Honestly l loved how you kept referencing back to the book

Thank you for highlighting the "tender spot" bit. There's no way that this Tyrion would spend 4 years making fun of Varys for having been brutally mutilated.

The new ending gave me goosebumps; That's crazy

(Edit): This changes Tyrion from being an allusion to Richard III to cycling through being first Iago then Mary Macbeth and finally Brutus. Bravo!

Tyrion killed Dany with the Hand of the King Pin, and he strangled Shae with the Hand of the King necklace. Damn.

That Verys-Tyrion battle of wits concept is something I actually hurt to have not gotten.

That was amazing 👏👏 and i would have loved that in show form. I think a lot of fans would have. And i never knew George r.r Martin said Tyrion was a villain. I just heard that he was his favorite character. Changes every thing.

Just a little thing I noticed, I just watched Narnia Prince Caspian and Peter Dinklage is in it. His first scene is him, tied up, and is being thrown out of a boat into the water and literally there’s a short scene of him sinking down and I swear it mimics the exact scene in the show when they are in Valyria with Jorah.

Can only hope for George rr to finish writing and give these characters there just endings .

23:29 how he gonna reach her neck tho....

Tyrion does comment on Myrcella’s death when they’re all standing around the painted table at DragonStone... I forget what is said verbatim, but he says something to Elaria along the lines of “No, we don’t kill innocent little girls,” in response to something she says. At the end of Season 6, or early Season 7 obviously before they get their shit packed by Euron out at sea.

Phenomenal video man! Loved your take on this, i adore the parallel of a lannister killing a targaryen to save the people between Jaime and Tyrion, and I love that you focus on keeping Tyrion smart and cunning, as the show sort of robbed him of that post season 6. Keep it up man, can’t wait for the future videos

It’s almost painful.... how much better this simple change is than the entirety of season 8

How about a bonus video, about the Golden Company? Since they were a small part of the show it might not be as long as the others but damn, they need something to not be completely pointless in the show. Great job man!

GRRM did say that Tyrion was the villain once. No matter how you interpret that, it's still more 3d than whatever Tyrion got in the past couple seasons. He did NOT deserve to be dumbed down like that.

8:40 "I should have let stannis kill you all, I wish I had enough poison for the whole pack of you!" Daenerys: say no more!

Really nice work, dude. Better than what we got.

Loved the video, but a major void that is still missing from the D&D penned show is the influence of Tywin Lannister. For 4 seasons, Tywin ruled the 7 Kingdoms, not the king. Tywin shrewdly manipulated other leaders and the King and did so with his pen and trading on other people’s motivations. The Red Wedding was a master negotiation that destroyed the Starks and brought the Freys and Boltons into the fold. Whether it was evil was a matter of perspective. It was evil to the Starks/North, but ended a war and saved countless lives. With Tywin out of the picture, Tyrion had the opportunity and the skills to be the new Tywin behind the scenes for Dany. Everyone wants the throne, but Tyrion knows where the power really resides. Tyrion has Tywin’s political skills and he watched Tywin in action. Tyrion doesn’t have the respect that Tywin had, so he needs to be more calculated. He could bring Dany new allies (Dorne/Martel/Greyjoy) and at least cause others to question their loyalties to Cersei (e.g., the Iron Bank). His motivations aren’t evil, but include calculated, message sending bloodshed. He is motivated to kill Cersei and knows the people of Kings Landing are worthless pawns in his political maneuvering. He is nothing, the Imp, sentenced to death, and he is motivated to be the man Tywin despised while tearing down everything that Tywin built. Tyrion could bring Dany into Season 7 with the political might to match her army. The final conflict is that Dany saw Tyrion’s diplomacy as a way to the throne but not to lead (she wants to break the wheel of the old ways) and Tyrion can’t control her the way Tywin could manipulatable Tommen and Joffrey. Summary-Your rewrite with Tyrion using his skills to step into the Tywin role behind the scenes; he is not respected so it poses additional challenges to overcome; his motivations aren’t pure evil but calculated against his enemies (Cersei/Tywin) and the people he doesn’t care about personally or politically (people of Kings Landing).

I love the idea of this series. Keep it up!

Dang this is good. I’ve watched a number of these and found them various degrees of satisfying. This is the first I’ve found riveting, surprising yet logically consistent w character motivations, and satisfying. I’m obv incredibly late to this party, but your channel is new to me. Thanks for the great content. I cannot wait to watch your other GOT char rewrite vids!

This is so good! The only thing I would add is that Tyrion has one other motivation: his need for love that first blinds him to what Shae really is and then drives him across the sea in a fruitless search for Tysha. This is a major character arc that most people overlook, but I think it is important, since it ties in really well with Dany's underused yearning for a home and a place to belong. Jon and Dany make a pretty couple, but theme wise Dany and Tyrion make more sense. It gives him more leverage to corrupt her and ties them tighter together than just political allies. It also offers a conflict to their joint arc - follow their baser instincts to wreak havoc on Westeros or peace out and go for the quiet life both always wanted.

Would fans have liked it? Uh, I would've! I thought for the longest time that Tyrion was going to team up with Dany to burn the people who had wronged him at the trial, since he CLEARLY stated that he would gladly kill them all after they dragged him through the mud like that. But nah, he gets to Dany's front door and he's super chill and turning his resume to be hand of the Queen just because. And I personally think Peter Dinklege would've LOVED to play a darker side of Tyrion. Can't wait to see your Dany and Jon videos! (:

I'm just gonna go ahead and pretend this is what really happened. Makes way more sense, and is thus so much more satisfying. Well done, mate, keep it up!

I'm imagining a reveal from Varys that tywin played a similar role in the Mad King's Court. As hand to the king, Tywin was in prime real estate for pushing the King towards madness, and it would make sense. Especially with how quickly and adeptly Tywin starts directing Prince Tommen.

If I have your position straight, it seems as though you're confusing Tyrion's hatred of the nobility / ruling class (who are present during his trial) for hatred of [all humans in King's Landing]. Tyrion has no beef with the common people, his heroics in saving the city support that (if he hated everyone, why save them, but if he only hates the few, then those actions make perfect sense). This would also support a motivation for a replacement for that ruling class, hence the support for Dany, as well as his later actions in condemning Dany after she burns the common folk of King's Landing. Oh, and your idea for a re-write, Tyrion v Varys is a great idea. Go for the fan fiction and do it up completely.

Dude, this is brilliant! This would have been so much better and it fits the characters (in both book and show). I salute you, ser! Especially because of Varys who was my favourite character. You did him justice! I look forward to the next one! ❤

"Would the fans have liked it" Which part ? The one where characters actually make decisions based on their motives ? Or the one that allows for morally ambiguous characters to stay shady like in the early seasons ? It's like asking if fans liked the red wedding. No we didn't. We hated it. But we loved the way every characters' decisions has led to this point, and that this is the obligatory yet still unexpected way to conclude this mess. I think we can agree on one thing : we may hate or love moments in a movie/serie. But it doesn't correlate with how satisfying it is. The red wedding was satisfying, Ned's execution was satisfying, Dany emerging from the pyre with the cute dragons was satisfying. Arya brutally murdering Meryn was satisfying. Brienne and Sansa reuniting early season 6 was satisfying. Because these were logical developments. Dany going mad over bells ? Jon somehow surviving after killing dany while Greyworm executes prisonners ? A lot of S8 ? doesn't make sense, and regardless of the "wow" effect, they don't come as satisfying.

I absolutely love these story changes! Thank you for the wonderful content!

"I'm sorry, killed in a tragic elephant accident." 🤣

The next horror film should be named “fire and blood” -Daenerys Targaryen

How long did it take you to come up with this narrative? I only ask because it took D&D years to come up with the drivel they did.

This channel have much potential! Good job!

Holy crap...I LOVE this theory, and it makes so much more sense for both Tyrion AND Varys

Please do a video about rewriting White Walkers’ arc. I mean no character has been destroyed by season 8 as much as the Night King.

This was so good, thank you for this. I’m absolutely excited for the following videos.

Man, I just discovered your channel and have fallen in love with your content, gonna binge watch the GoT rewrite series

Now this is a series i'm actually looking foward to see. Great job man!

time to rewatch this whole series! stoked for the last one and the recap video at the end :) legit fav content on youtube atm

I think your ending of this rewrite is FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC, love it!

Tbh you mentioning the lisp made me notice it and now I can’t unhear it Still great video

Beautifully done, wonderful insight!

I love these! Thankyou for putting in the time and effort to make these videos!

This was absolutely excellent. Very excited for the upcoming videos

I feel that in the book it will be Ser Selmy being the angel on her shoulder to Tyrion's devil

To me you have missed the whole point of tyrion's speech in his trial. The whole point is "I wish I was". That's the voice and feel of his heart talking. Taisha's confession really is the turning point, but Tyrion wouldn't blame the common people of king's landing, because he know how easy the minds of common people are easily manipulated; his family though? Maybe he could forgive Jaime... but Jaime'd rather see him dead after Tywin's death. Tyrion is fondamentaly a good being, which would end up being the wrong things for grieve wounds to his heart, but to the point of him not making any distinction between the noble of king's landing and it's population? I don't think so. Could he entice Dany to burn the red keep? Definitly. Would she agree? No, the throne is inside and the red keep itself is a testimony of her heritage, not counting the room with the dragon skulls which she could consider like her family. Could it be transferred to King landing's people ? Maybe, after all she heard the were free, and still serving Cersei: meaning a cultural mishap could happen having been raised to the dothraki culture, a system of value totally different from Westeros'. That doesn't change the fact his intelligence, cunning and political awareness vanishes after season 4-5 (then again his political awareness should be a bit lower in foreign land, he isn't a trained ambassador), to the straight point of being dumb at season 7-8. Tyrion have the potential to become a baddy, but the serial miss a LOT of interaction with nonames blaming him, belittling him (and even then... how would that be different from his past?) since serial "kind of forget" that such interaction where the heart of it : just for Tyrion himself (and non exhaustive list), Bronn is a noname from start, Shae too, the savages he recruit are still nonames, the alchemists of king's landing, the slave traders capturing him... And then none. Past season 5 the world become shrinked, empty and mostly descriptive : the mirin rebellion is more like an "natural catastrophe" in it's treatment, nothing personal is involved, and the vaccum create an even bigger void. I really like your redemption style killing Dany, it makes a great deal of sense, I'd like you to treat the Bronn subject too, since it's relation to Tyrion is one of the most important. As for varys, to me it's not a good thing for him to die at all (since their is no way he would be waiting still in his room to die... at the very least the onion knight couls smugle him out).

Whatever you were going through a year ago, I hope all is well now. One love, brother. 💚

While the Dorne storyline was one of my favourites from the books, I'll admit that it would be very hard to fit into a world where Arianne, Quentyn, (f)aegon and Jon Connington don't exist

This change in his character would hurt but make sense. I would be upset with Tyrion but not the writer because that is the difference between writing the character in a way that flows versus doing so in a way that doesn't. I'm looking forward to the rest of these rewrites.

So smart and well done. So excited to see your next videos and your thoughts!!

I can honestly say if your rewrites were what we received in the actual show I would have been SOOOOO satisfied.

I love these. The previous video was very thoughtful, and didn't expect to see more awesomeness in this vein. Super cool! Subscribed. Can't wait to see the next installment.

Another great video, really looking forward to the rest of the series!

great job! ty for the time you put into this!!

Love this! Definitely subscribing so I can hear what you have on the other characters. Thanks for a great video 😊

Excellent layout, and imagination. Made so much more sense, added drama, and depth.

Love it ! Subscribed. Can't wait to go thru the entire series of vids , keep the content coming .

Nice. I enjoy hearing your literary analysis. You have a good grasp of the fundamentals of drama. Subbed.

Great video man, excited to see the channel grow!

This makes so much more sense! Amazing video!

This video rocked hard! Can’t wait for the next ones. I only wish Tyrion’s character arc had gone even slightly darker, or better yet all the way as you suggested. That would be an ending to Dani and all of his enemies that I could have gotten behind. Great insight! Can’t wait to read your first novel...?!?!

Thank you. I can feel myself healing already. You're a good man.

This is a brilliant rewrite. So many things make much more sense. If the writers were confident in the writing, they could have written Tyrion in a way that was still sympathetic. People love characters even when they are villains because there is balance in the writing. Well done, my friend! Subscribed and hoping the rest of your rewrite series is just a perfect.

So good! Excellent story telling!

Dude, this was seriously great. Good job.

Hey! Hope you're feeling better now, I loved your last vid and this one is fantastic too. Keep it up!

Loving these rewrites! Can't wait to see the rest! :D Keep it up!

This is absolutely brilliant, well thought out, much better than what D&D came up with. Even provided the bittersweet ending GRRM promised through our favourite character. When you write your novel, I want to read the ARC, then buy the first copy.

I very much like this arc of Tyrion you're proposing It is entirely true that Tyrion going full Darkside would've upset fans, but that's the power of good writing. A good story about the complexities of characters means that not following clean guidelines to "love good guy hate bad guy". That's generic and stereotypical. I don't think, however, it's necessary to wait until the last minute to make Tyrion the hand of the queen. But the symbolism of Tyrion murdering Dany with his own Hand of the Queen pin is much more fitting(and would've made fantastic throat murder spectacle) than Drogon burning the throne Also, you keep mispronouncing Lord Varys' name lol. Otherwise, love the content