In Game of Thrones, you're either a ruthless bastard, a lying snitch or a conniving temptress. If you're none of these things you will most likely die a horrible and painful death.
As they persistently like to remind us, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." It's as simple as that.
However there is one man in Game of Thrones who has managed to both win the game of thrones and die. And that is Dean-Charles Chapman, who you might know better as King Tommen Baratheon.
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Since 2014, and the untimely death of that little prick Joffrey, Tommen has taken on the Iron Throne with an annoying cluelessness which has me people wondering when he is finally going to get the chop.
Surely it won't be long now. And surely Game of Thrones producers won't be able to find yet another role for Chapman. But what was his other role?
Well, the eagle-eyed viewers among you may already know but Chapman was actually originally cast as Martyn Lannister for two episodes in the third season. Here he is as Martyn...
Dean-Charles Chapman as Martyn Lannister. Credit: HBO
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Remember way back before Robb Stark was taken from us at The Red Wedding and he was waging war across Westeros as King in the North? Well, during that time, Robb captured Willem and Martyn Lannister.
Before northern lord Rickard Karstark was beheaded by Robb for murdering the Lannister lordlings, Chapman got the pleasure of playing a frightened prisoner of war.
Once murdered, Chapman was recast as Tommen in 2014 to replace the much younger actor Callum Wharry who had played Cersei and Jaime's third child as a baby.
Hello Giggles first noticed the double-casting of Chapman, claiming the king who is 'only half-Lannister' (wtf? Both his parents are Lannisters, it's grim, we've seen them fucking and stuff) looks a lot like his pure-blood Lannister cousin Martyn.
But anyway, it probably has absolutely no bearing on the wider goings on in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea but it's interesting nonetheless.
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The only remote thing I could think of where it might be even slightly relevant is that in the books there are allusions to Cersei having sex with other members of the Lannister family. So it could be possible that this is a small indicator of that. But I really am scraping the bottom of the barrel with that, to be honest.
But anyway, nothing against Chapman, hopefully Tommen dies soon. He's neither a ruthless bastard, a lying snitch or a conniving temptress. He's just a useless little idiot and useless little idiots shouldn't survive in Westeros, even with a crown on their head.
Words by George Pavlou
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