Ehhh if it really didn't matter, Dinklage might as well start speaking in his American accent. Would be pretty strange though.
Tywin said there's been no new gold mined in 3 years. That doesn't necessarily mean they are broke, but it's a good bet.
They would still be collecting taxes and other incomes, but it means they don't have the virtually unlimited incomes that they have been portrayed as having up to this point. Of course the whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense. People would know if the mines ran out 3 years ago. The workers, the craftsmen... You would expect all the Lannisters to know it and would have adjusted their spending accordingly if it had been 3 years since the last time they got any gold from any of their mines. Tywin waited 3 years to tell Cersei this? It's about as silly as Xaro being the richest man in Qarth with nothing in his vault and really being broke, details the show made up without really thinking thru how illogical they are.
There are literally dozens of variations within the thing we call an 'English accent', and there is nothing wrong with the way Dinklage is doing it. It's a fantasy world, not England, and so his accent is more a reflection of his personal mannerisms as a character than any exercise in technical brilliance with specific locale-based accents. And you think Baelish's accent is better? It's barely-concealed Irish wearing an English dress. But it is what it is, very good actors in an extremely good television series - certainly nothing to get actual pet peeves about..
Jaime's Danish accent also comes through quite a bit. I've accepted the "common tongue" in GoT to be "generic European".
I know we are just arguing over tiny things, which just shows how awesome the show is considering how I'm nitpickign it. But I live in London and have a british accent, and I've heard my share of English accents (Manchester, liverpool, west country, posh Surrey accents, irish, you name it). Dinklage's doesn't come close to anything I've ever heard in my life. It's a weird combo of American/British and is just so inconsistent with the rest of his family (Cersei, Tywin, and Jamie) that it always breaks the illusion that they are supposed to be a family for me. And yes, I know it's a tiny thing, hence why it's a pet peeve
Shoot I thought Dinklage was British lol. Shows how much I know, but I've never once thought there was anything wrong with it.
You never saw Costner as Robin Hood, I take it. And that was supposed to actually be a British accent, while there is no UK in Westeros. Didn't bother you until someone told you it did, eh, and now you're here to rub off on everyone else? Brilliant, guv'nah.
So how was Locke going to get back to the Dreadfort? Was he going to climb the wall with Bran on his back??? No way he'd get through Castle Black. That whole storyline seemed illogical to me.
Not as bad but imagine an actor from your local theatre mimicking a Patrick Stewart accent but sounding Long John Silver. The LJS twangs are there. The guy who plays Jamie has an obvious Scandinavian accent but I don't find it bothersome. He does try to a RADA accent as does Dinklage to fit with the other Lannisters & mostly British cast but it's only when accents are exaggerated they become noticeably bad.
They have really played up the 'sexier' angles I did not think Lorus was that major a character until the show He was major in his name was thrown around but he didn't 'do' much in the books he was a background character I also don't like how the sublty of the book is lost in the show I like the characters being coy and hinting more than outright spelling it out Sansa is a good foil for this tactic because she is dumb as a brick Rocket River
