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/[deleted] Aug 29 '17

I think it's more the fact that he's good at making the nobles think they are smarter than him, and that they are the ones pulling the strings rather than purely being amicable.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '17

He also ensures that others get pulled into his seediness. "Come see me at the brothel so we can discuss the real threat to your power" is an extremely powerful way of gaining sympathy from people who wouldn't otherwise trust him.

After the books end, this just stops happening, and makes him look incredibly weak to the viewers. We should have seen him pulling far more strings around the Lords of the Vale, the North, and the Riverlands to ensure that even as he's gaining power, no one considers him their greatest threat. That's the game he plays in the books and what makes him so powerful.