Why Has <em>Game of Thrones</em> Sidelined Tyrion?
Once thought of as the cleverest man in Westeros, the Lannister carried a record of misjudgments and an air of malaise in the Season 8 premiere.
This story contains spoilers through Season 8, Episode 1 of Game of Thrones.
“I used to think you were the cleverest man alive.”
Sansa Stark may as well have been speaking for the audience as she dissed Tyrion Lannister during ’ . In a show full of schemers, Tyrion’s ruses once not only had a tendency to work, but also carried an element of righteousness: He was smart, and he was good. He in King’s Landing; he wheedled himself and others out of bullies’ chains and prison cells; he engineered a special riding saddle for Bran. “My brother has his sword, and I have my mind,” Tyrion said to a sullen new ally in
