ultimately it doesnt really matter since got as a show got its indecent end, but rereading acok it really is insidious how the showrunners decided to not include any sign of the lannisters ravaging the riverlands (indiscriminate pillage, rape, torture, murder) in favour of positively framed tywin scenes where he insulates arya from the aforementioned & appreciates her for what are ultimately signs of higher class breeding (literacy) & also in general how a lot of tywin scenes had that level of 'go diva, cool clapback!'. it does contextualise a lot of d&d disgust with dany & her forced turn towards the authoritarian as primarily resting in her existing as othered & orientalised vs our homegrown western feudal war atrocities














