The Psychology of Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)(2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 21 April 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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June 3, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | When people ask me to do episodes about Game of Thrones characters, they usually ask me to talk about and analyze the |
| 0:14.8 | psychopaths, the Joffrey Barathians, the Ramsey Bolts, the Serse Lannisters, these |
| 0:20.9 | kind of people. I've also done episodes on Sandra Clegan The Hound and |
| 0:26.0 | Theon Greyjoy and also just general diagnosing all the characters of game |
| 0:31.3 | of throats and I thought that all the characters of Game of Thrones. |
| 0:33.0 | And I thought that I would today do an episode on one of the non-psychopaths, one of the good guys, |
| 0:40.0 | Tyrian Lannister. |
| 0:42.0 | I at first thought, well, you know, what could I really say about Tyrion? |
| 0:46.0 | People ask me to do episodes on all the characters, you know, including Yuron, Greyjoy, and all these kind of people. |
| 0:53.8 | And I'm always thinking, well, you know, what could I talk? |
| 0:56.1 | I mean, if I did an episode on the mountain, |
| 0:59.2 | what could I say about him other than that he's just a terrible person. |
| 1:03.0 | If I'm going to do a full episode about a character on any show or any movie, |
| 1:08.0 | I feel like I need some data to be able to comment on and at first I thought I didn't have enough data to go off with with |
| 1:16.8 | hearing but actually I do there's a lot that can be said about Tyrion's development and how his personality came to be and some of the traumas that he's been through that influenced his life. |
| 1:30.0 | That is consistent, I think, and that's one of the wonderful things about George Martin's |
| 1:36.4 | writing is that his characters are rich and consistent and makes sense psychologically. |
| 1:43.3 | Not all the time, of course, but generally speaking, they do. |
| 1:47.0 | There's a through line, even on someone like Ramsey Bolton, if you listen to that episode, |
| 1:51.9 | there's a through line through his life through |
| 1:54.1 | his childhood that leads him to where he was at at the time he doesn't just |
| 1:59.4 | emerge as a monster. He was created and Tyrian's personality was also created and so I thought |
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