I'd go so far as to say he never really had a redemption arc in the books, because he was nearly always presented as a sympathetic character. Lilly white? Not even close. But he wasn't ever a "bad guy" so to speak. Other characters may have seen him as a villain, but his motivations aren't necessarily evil, at least not compared with some of the other characters.
Fair point. Like I said, he's not lilly white by a long shot, but I'll stand by my assertion that there's still not much of a redemption arc to him in the books, other than potentially his befriending of Penny.
Indeed he’s got some pretty bad deeds, mixed with some not so bad deeds. I suspect the book will keep him that way, not sure how redemption would look for him. Relative to the world he’s in of course.
I think he murdered Shae for being in bed with his father, who he came to kill, as much as anything. For context Tyrion was in full meltdown after his family tried to frame and kill him for a murder he didn’t commit. That made him snap.
It’s not happening. He’s got writers block, he’s lost the story, it’s grown too large and he doesn’t know how to bring it home. Anymore I just laugh when we get George’s annual progress (haha) update.
Not gonna be 2023
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But hasn't way more time passed than what passes during the Song of Ice and Fire? Don't know if they are honestly trying to give him some kind of redemption arc, but it's going to fall flat if they do. The guy is a **** with fleeting moments of humanity. That's all he has been for decades and that's all he should be going forward. But they have done a lot of questionable things with character development in this show so I don't really expect that to change. That said I love the show, and I'm looking forward to them digging in to the meat of the story now, which is the war.
