User blog comment:The Dragon Demands/Slapping Joffrey compilation (set to "Sweet Dreams are Made of These")/@comment-5014364-20120607153508

I feel that the TV show didn't show Tywin as any more "sympathetic" than he was in the books...its just that the way the series works, they later reveal more about the characteres in later books, i.e. explaining in more detail that Tywin is the way he is because he had to rebuild House Lannister from scratch after his father Tytos ran it into the ground. The TV series just tried to portray the story as a whole, not book by book.