Why do Game of Thrones’ showrunners hate Tyrion so much?

Spoilers ahead for season 7 of Game of Thrones and for the book series It’s been a

rough Game of Thrones season for Tyrion Lannister. Throughout season 7, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff scooted him firmly to the back burner, where he sat and fretted and was generally ineffectual. And even when he took center stage, it was to fail — not in dramatic and interesting ways, but in petty, often sad ones, like whispering unheard warnings to his brother Jaime during the loot-train robbery. The only useful thing he accomplished on-screen all season was getting Jon Snow to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys Targaryen, and even that was accomplished via omission, in a way that promptly rebounded on him. It’s been a sharp comedown for one of the series’s most distinctive and popular characters, a man often at the center of some of the show’s biggest and most moving dramas. Tyrion has never had an easy time of it on Game of Thrones, but throughout season 7, he wasn’t just put upon and tormented by his family, his circumstances, and his life. He was reduced to a pathetic, hovering background presence with nothing particularly useful to contribute. If season 7 had a Friends-esque subtitle, it might as well be “The One Where Tyrion Gives Terrible Advice.” He’s supposedly a tactical genius, but every military move he made in season 7 either backfired or was easily countered by his sister Cersei. And all the personal advice he gave as Daenerys’ chief advisor was dismissed or overturned. Some of it just seemed irrelevant, like his attempts to get Daenerys to discuss her succession plans for a throne she hasn’t even taken yet.                                                                                                 https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/1/16233974/game-of-thrones-season-7-tyrion-lannister-peter-dinklage