Oh, I definitely agree that Tywin is far from harmless. You don't get to be old and powerful in his circles without some serious game. That said, I'm not sure he realises just how delusional Joffrey is; if Joffrey decides to get rid of someone, he wouldn't think the consequences through. As local_max says above, Tywin is hardly in as much danger as Margaery, but if I were him I'd sleep with one eye open as long as there are people in the city eager to suck up to the king.
An interesting wrinkle in this which just occurred to me: Margaery is working pretty hard to transform Joffrey into The People's King (by virtue of her herself being The People's Queen). So the number of people willing to suck up to the king is actually increasing, in that it is looking more and more like Joffrey might, via Margaery, get public support -- so that if and when Tywin and Joffrey's interests become opposed, Tywin might actually be in real trouble. Of course, that relies on Joffrey being smart enough to realize what Margaery is doing for him (well, doing for herself, but for him as a consequence) and not making her into St. Sebastian first.
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Date: 2013-05-07 09:13 pm (UTC)An interesting wrinkle in this which just occurred to me: Margaery is working pretty hard to transform Joffrey into The People's King (by virtue of her herself being The People's Queen). So the number of people willing to suck up to the king is actually increasing, in that it is looking more and more like Joffrey might, via Margaery, get public support -- so that if and when Tywin and Joffrey's interests become opposed, Tywin might actually be in real trouble. Of course, that relies on Joffrey being smart enough to realize what Margaery is doing for him (well, doing for herself, but for him as a consequence) and not making her into St. Sebastian first.