Game Of Thrones: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 4

5. Tyrion's Speech Remains His Finest Hour

Game Of Thrones Tyrion Trial
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While Season 2 is, for my money, the best we see of him across an entire season, there's no denying this is the year we get his greatest moment. No, not when he kills Tywin (though that's great too), but the speech he delivers at his trial.

Well-scripted and brilliantly performed by Peter Dinklage, there's a strong argument that this is the show's finest ever moment as a whole. There's certainly not a character moment that tops it; such is the ferocity and the emotion that comes pouring out of Tyrion here.

With his family looking on, and Shae having been brought out as a witness against him, this is the moment that EVERYTHING Tyrion has been put through in his life causes him to snap. The mistreatment at the hands of his father, the torment from his sister, it all bubbles to the surface and boils over in this epic monologue, serving as the moment he is truly done with his family and Westeros long before he puts a crossbow bolt into his father's torso.

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