Game Of Thrones: 10 Times Fans Totally Overreacted To Book Changes
7. Tyrion And Tysha
Season 4 ended with the brutal sequence of Tyrion murdering Shae and then his father, Tywin. But in the show, Tyrion's motivations here are a bit different.
You might remember the story of Tysha, which Tyrion tells in Season 1. While on the road, Tyrion and Jaime encountered Tysha, a victim of attempted rape. He helped her recover, and they eventually fell in love and got married. But he later found out this was all a lie, and she was actually a prostitute who Jaime paid to go along with the attempted rape story.
Tywin, so angry that his son would marry a common girl, had his guards rape Tysha as Tyrion watched.
In the show, we never come back to that story again. In the books, though, right before Tyrion goes on his murder rampage, Jamie makes a confession: Tysha wasn’t really a whore. She really was a victim of attempted rape, but Tywin forced Jaime to pretend it was all an act. That revelation is part of Tyrion's motivation for murdering Tywin.
The show left this out, but the important difference is that while in the books, Shae doesn’t appear to have ever loved Tyrion, in the show she does. The showrunners simply moved the focus from Tyrion’s betrayal over Tysha to his betrayal over Shae, but the end result is exactly the same.