HBO - Game of Thrones SPOILERS INSIDE. you have been warned

[strife]

My character issue has been Shae. The jealousy in the show just isn't in the book along with Tyrion spurning her to the degree HBO has shown. It detracts from Tyrion's character and story in my opinion.
[spoiler]it also makes her appearance in Tywin's bed appear to be out of spite vs a betrayal. It is hinted in the book, and my understanding, that she was a spy for Tywin from the beginning. This is revealed when she was in Tywins bed wearing the necklace. It could still end this way but the way Shae has gone seems more from being spurned vs a golddigger. A case of extra character fluff.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I didn't take it that way at all... I took it in the book and in the show that it was her jealousy and not understanding/caring why Tyrion couldn't be with her that drove her to betray him.[/spoiler]