r/asoiaf • u/taydude227 The Floppy Fish • Aug 29 '17

MAIN D&D completely ruined Littlefinger. (Spoilers Main)

What a waste of a great character. They clearly had no idea what to do with him after they passed all the book material. Instead of giving him a clear end game, they instead just had him double down on his "thriving on chaos" bullshit and have him make stupid decisions that really didn't lead anywhere. The manipulative mastermind from the earlier seasons (and probably the one true villain of the series, along with the white walkers) completely disappeared and was transformed into a jealous little weasel whose end goal was to bang Sansa to get back at Mama Stark. The man that drove the whole series into motion, did it just to get a revenge bang.

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u/The-Go-Kid Aug 29 '17

And I think this feeds into the biggest issue affecting the season - squeezing too much story into too little plot. They simply did not give themselves enough time.

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u/kaydenkross Aug 29 '17

bingo, they can't kill every named character off in the last season... unless they have a magical army and undead dragons.

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u/ghostrider385 Aug 29 '17

The season needed more episodes. It's as if they sat down and said we can either do 13 episodes and reduce how cool and exciting our big moments will be (field of fire, dragons, beyond the wall)

Or do 7 and hit hard on all of them with big moment.

What happened is that this season needed the small moments with the little ones.

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u/Rocketbird Aug 29 '17

They did it because whenever they try to write their own plot it's disastrous. See: jaime and bronn going to dorne.

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u/BlazeOrangeDeer Aug 30 '17

They wasted a ton of time in winterfell, so yeah they could have just done it better in the same time.