User blog comment:Gcheung28/Game of Thrones Wikia Awards: Season 3 Winners/@comment-5014364-20130917201525

Best Male and Best Female are a sham, though the other winners are good.

Tyrion winning over Jaime and Arya winning over Daenerys (the runners up)?

This isn't an "opinion"; officially, Tyrion and Arya simply don't do much in the third season/ first half of book 3. They *do* get more to do later on.

This was a problem in Season 2 - Season 1 was fairly centered around Ned Stark, but...well...recall how in Season 2 they'd "invent" filler scenes for Arya or Daenerys simply for the sake of including them in episodes...which had nothing to do with them and no payoff.

I'm not that angry at the writers over this anymore because the writers themselves went through a learning curve, realized it was a mistake, and by season 3, were more willing to let characters "lie fallow" for multiple episodes, not appearing at all, then giving them large sections of material. I.e. they didn't invent new subplots for Robb Stark but simply cut away from him for all of episode 4, then gave him a large chunk of time in episode 5.

Arya isn't the worst choice - she *does* meet the Brotherhood Without Banners, deal with Gendry leaving, then goes through reacting to her family's massacre at the end of the season. So these were strong enough scenes that on reflection, it isn't outrageous to think of this as a good season for her (dear god, you haven't seen anything yet, the big stuff is coming up). So I'll let that drop.

But Tyrion in particular....didn't do much. The events surrounding his forced marriage to Sansa were good, though. And I know the bulk of his storyline begins *after* the Red Wedding in the third novel (which will be Season 4).

I saw others complaining of this in Season 2 - that there was a need to turn Tyrion into "the" main character after Dinklage won an Emmy....I didn't think this was a problem at the time, given that book 2 does indeed shift much of the narrative focus to Tyrion, during his preparations for the Battle of the Blackwater.

While Tyrion is certainly *important* after this, he simply didn't do much in the first half of book 3 - just as Jaime and Daenerys didn't do much in book 2. As in real life, sometimes characters just have an "off" year while their plotline is slowly building.

But the vote for Tyrion seems a kneejerk reaction.

HELLO people! JAIME?! This was Jaime's season (after being gone for most of Season 2) -- the speech where he explains why he really killed the Mad King? *Losing his hand*?

Voting Tyrion over Jaime for Season 3 was blind favoritism or name recognition rather than a measured assessment of the season.

Anyway, we can all look forward to the Emmy Awards on September 22nd....why, that's next Sunday!

I think Dianna Rigg stands a good chance of winning Best Guest Actress -- it's the quality of a Supporting Actress role but "playing down" in a lower field so she'll end of dominating it - never go for "Best Actor", go for "Supporting Actor" so you stand a better chance of winning.

Dinklage arguably was a "Lead Actor" - as much as any characters are the "leads" in the ensemble cast of the books/show, it's Tyrion, Arya, Jon, Daenerys (very loosely). But the smart move they did was to put Dinklage up for Supporting Actor in Season 1, better odds of winning when you play down into a lower category.

Fantasy shows usually get ghetto-ized into technical awards; I hope we get bigger awards like Drama, Episode, or Writers - but the Acting categories are the big eye-catchers. Not only is Dinklage nominated again (he didn't win for his major stuff in Season 2 so I don't see how he will this year which simply didn't give him as much)....but also, Emilia Clarke and Dianna Rigg.

It *will* be nice to at least see their names called on TV when they list the nominees.