Peter Dinklage correctly predicted Tyrion’s season 8 fate

Peter Dinklage was onto something when he guessed Tyrion Lannister’s fate ahead of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones. According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dinklage didn’t cheat and look ahead in the scripts like he usually does. It was the last season, and nerves were pulled taut.

"This is the first time ever that I didn’t skip to the end. Why? I was probably terrified. We all feel we’re the leads of our own show. As the seasons have gone on, we’ve all thought how it’s going to end. Who’s going to be alive? If you die, how do you die? Ten years we’ve been doing this and it can drive you mad because [showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss] don’t tell us and sometimes they change their mind."

It turns out that Dinklage had come up with some theories of his own as to what would happen to Tyrion in the final season…and he was right!

"I had all these ideas in my head and a version of one of them is how it ends up [for Tyrion]. David and Dan have a brilliant version of what I had. David and Dan have a brilliant version of what I had…I love how it ended up. And how it ends up for everybody. They had a beautiful gentle touch with some and a hard touch with others."

Mind sharing with us, Mr. Dinklage?

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Like many Game of Thrones cast members, Dinklage subtly and cryptically put it out there that the showrunners came up with one hell of an ending. “We’re so used to the standard formula of bad guys dying and good guys living,” he said. “What David and Dan have done with all this is beautiful, painful, and lovely. It takes the show somewhere that’s dangerous and contemporary with what’s going on in the world.”

The final season will begin with Tyrion, Daenerys, Jon Snow, and their merry band of supporters arriving in Winterfell. Where will Tyrion fit into this? “He’s definitely a diplomat,” Dinklage said. “How does he maintain his sense of self within that? He’s like a translator with his own strong opinions. How do you stop yourself from voicing that?”

"Obviously, Daenerys and her dragons are nitroglycerine. He knows she’s going to make the world a better place yet he also understands her passion. He’s put his passion in front of himself sometimes and it got the better of him. He’s trying to figure out who he really is in this storm of negotiations. And where we left off is with the biggest threat of all, the [Army of the Dead], for somebody like Tyrion he’s not going to be able to negotiate with them. He’s not a fighter. He can’t talk them into peace."

Naturally, there will be many reunions, including between Tyrion and his ex-wife Sansa:

"I love those two characters when they’re together. There’s something so sensitive about their relationship. For something so horrible and arranged there was a goodness to it and mutual affection in horrible circumstances. It was a marriage as a treaty, as a lot of those arranged marriages were. Though you hear of arranged marriages now working out. If it was given a chance maybe it would have."

Maybe, just maybe, it still can. #SansTysTheKnot

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