SPOILER ALERT: During the epic Season 5 finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) escaped from prison and went on a mini-murder spree. Daddy Lannister got his just deserts, However, Shae’s death got fans a bit more choked up. Now Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin is opening up about why fans liked Shae from the show better the Shae in the books.
Tyrion Lannister commented a major crime of passion (and a little patricide) when he broke out of jail and murdered his former lover Shae, and, her new lover, his father. Where Tywin Lannister certain earn his death, Shae’s demise was a little bit for harder for fans to take. George R.R. Martin recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about some of Shae’s better qualities:
“It’s also worth mentioning Shae is one of the characters that really has changed significantly from the books to the TV show. I think that [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] wrote Shae very differently, and a symbol to Sibel Kekilli--the incredible girl playing her. Shae is much more sincere in her affections for Tyrion. This is almost contradictory, but with the Shae in the TV series, you can tell she actually has real feelings for Tyrion--she challenges him, she defies him. The Shae in the books is a manipulative camp-follower prostitute who doesn’t give a s**t about Tyrion any more than she would any other john, but she’s very compliant, like a little teenage sex kitten, feeding all his fantasies; she’s really just in it for the money and the status. She’s everything lord Tywin thought Tyrion’s first wife was that she actually wasn’t. So there are all layers of complexity going on here. They’re the same character, but they’re also very different characters, and I think that’s going to lead to very different resonances playing out in the TV show than in the books.”
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