10 Problems With Game Of Thrones Nobody Wants To Admit

9. Some Actors Are Better Than Others

Peter Dinklage is a heck of an actor, and he's part of a heck of an ensemble. Besides being a generally great and engrossing fantasy series, Game Of Thrones also serves a vital public service as it keeps Britain's actors, both established and up-and-coming, in regular paid work. Until they get unexpectedly killed off, anyway. Sean Bean was great as Ned Stark for the Sean Bean amount of time he stuck around, Dinklage remains dazzling despite the accent, and basically every member of the Stark and Lannister family is an actor working at the top of their game. Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister sets the bar pretty high, with Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as the incestuous brother and daughter pairing ably reaching it. Some of the actors struggle to keep up, however. Daenerys Targaryen is a fan-favourite character, but Emilia Clarke doesn't get to do a whole lot with the role, mainly resigned to looking misty-eyed; some of the other younger actors have the same issues as, well, all child actors; and does Kit Harington do a whole lot else besides looking angsty in the snow? Is that acting?