But since Tyrion joined Team Targaryen (and the likable Tyrells and poor King Tommen are all dead), Jaime and, to a lesser extent, Bronn are the only ones left to put a human, compelling face on Daenerys’s enemies. In fact, for a while there, Tyrion-who was always nice to our heroes Jon, Sansa, and Bran-was the perfect way to plunk a sympathetic character on the side of the scheming King’s Landing elite. Or the tragedy of Jon and Ygritte on opposite sides of the Season 4 battle for Castle Black, Tyrion obliterating poor Davos in the Season 2 Battle of Blackwater Bay, or even the Season 1 incident where Catelyn Stark took Tyrion Lannister hostage and audiences had no idea whom to root for.
Consider, instead, the tension in the Season 4 duel between the Hound and Brienne-two bruisers, neither of whom we wanted to see die.
