Game Of Thrones: 10 Ways Season 5 Was Better Than The Books
6. Everything With Tyrion
It was satisfying to see Tyrion meet up with Dany, but that wasn’t the only improvement to his storyline in Season 5.
In A Dance With Dragons, Tyrion spends nearly the entire book drunk and depressed, wandering around and constantly reminding us and everyone else how sad he is. He isn’t really given any sort of purpose again until way later on in the book, but a lot of his early chapters are almost completely insufferable. That was surprising for a lot of readers given that Tyrion is usually the fan favorite character with some of the best chapters in the series.
The show again streamlined that and made for a much more effective arc this season. Tyrion was still drunk and depressed for a bit, but the show cut that back to really just the first episode, giving him more of a sense of purpose once Varys told him about Danerys. Viewers don’t have to put up with a full season of a drunk Tyrion who no longer has much of a purpose, constantly asking people about where whores go. Sticking the character with Varys on the way to Meereen was a very wise decision, and it gave Peter Dinklage a lot more to work with than the books would have given him.