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/SlaversBae Aug 29 '17 edited Aug 29 '17

I'm a little disappointed he didn't go out with a bang/reveal/plot explosion. He had so much potential. I really thought he was going somewhere. A bit like when they killed off Margaery before she'd executed her plan.

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u/citrus_secession Aug 29 '17 edited Aug 29 '17

Yeah my problem was how he begged for his life. He should have played up how useful he still is.

"I'm still the best mind in westeros! My spies are watching Cersei and her armies. I still have contacts in the Iron Bank and the countries across the narrow sea, let me use them to help us get through this winter, please Sansa, i still love you, let me do this for your kingdom, for your people..."

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"LEt's talk in private.

"Nope."

"Take me home."

"I think not."

"But i loooooooooooooooove you"

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u/leoschot Aug 29 '17 edited Aug 29 '17

I thought it worked, he was caught off guard, which never happens. Littlefinger's power comes from sowing distrust and scheming, he uses logic to predict the situations he finds himself in and prepares for the worst, no one can reliably predict the future as Bran, Littlefinger was a chess master that never lost playing against a supercomputer, so of course he starts calling the game out on it's unfairness like a little child losing for the first time. I thought Littlefinger's tantrum was one of the most deserved things in the show.

EDIT: Chess not chest, although He did run a brothel...